Congratulations to Beacon Pathway for their just completed v3 rental housing resource.
CHA received a few comments on the MBIE draft landscape, largely saying that the items needed to cover a wider spectrum of the housing continuum. We provided an updated version of this to Government on 11 November 2014.
With huge thanks to Peter Sanders of Spectrum Care, and Andrew Wilson and Nigel Smith of Accessible Properties, we can report that a letter and proposed solution has been put forward to MBIE.
Julie MacKenzie, Nexus Planning & Research, presented her research on mixed tenure communities and outcomes for tenants at the CHA Impact Conference 2014.
In 2013 Director of Dwell Housing Trust, Alison Cadman, was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship to travel to Australia, the UK and USA to study the growth of not-for-profit social housing organisations - the growth in the provision of social and affordable housing by not-for-profit organisations has significantly changed the landscape of social housing in the UK and now increasingly in Australia. Alison has written a report on her findings.
Credit reporting bureau Veda is warning that a new generation of young people, dubbed ''property orphans'', may be destined to be renters for life.
A survey of over 300 community organisations shows many are under severe pressure. Most groups are doing more work than ever for less money, groups are struggling to retain qualified staff, they see threats to traditional collaboration, and a few groups are facing closure.
CHA has written to Finance Minister English, Housing Minister Smith and Revenue Minister McClay seeking action to resolve the uncertainty facing the sector. We've prepared a paper that calls for either a review of the Charities Act, or setting the regulations for the new CHE tax exemption using the upper income limits as in the Welcome Home Loan and the recent announcements of the expansion of the Homestart programme. It only makes sense to align these policies together. Let us know if you have any comments.
Child Poverty Action Groups says New Zealand could do much more to ensure sure all children grow up in warm, dry, secure homes.
Fixation with home ownership causing economic and social despair.
