Australia's affordable housing industry, where community housing providers supply affordable housing to households on low incomes, has, up to now, been modest and small scale.
Last week CHA made a submission requesting deferral of all development contributions for Retained Affordable Housing for the duration of the period that the residential unit is occupied by a household that meets the agreed definitions.
New household tenure data from Statistics New Zealand shows that the number of households renting has increased significantly over the last 10 years.
As at 31 March 2006, there were 1,546,300 households in this country, of which 1,033,900 were owner-occupiers (67%) and 446,500 (29%) were renters.
This is our second article on local authority housing. Here we look at some of the trends in this housing provision and look at what some local authorities are doing to address the trends we can see: aging stock; changing demographics; and the increasing operating costs.
Included in this report is a housing section. This section looks at measurements to determine housing availability, housing affordability, and housing and household-related debt, in comparison to previous years.
Last week CHA submitted to MBIE on the proposed Residential Tenancies Act regulations.
An unrecognised household type, the multi-generational household (MGH), where more than one generation of related adults live together, has been rising sharply in New Zealand.
Last week the Reserve Bank published a Bulletin article, ‘New Zealand house prices: a historical perspective’ that provides historical context to the current divergence between house price inflation in Auckland and the rest of New Zealand.
Submissions close today on the RTA Ammendment Bill and CHA have worked closely with NZCCSS to prepare a submission on the Bill.
The University of Otago is working with Wellington and Dunedin city councils on a rental warrant of fitness (WoF) to be introduced next year.