This report is part of an AHURI Inquiry into social impact investment for housing and homelessness outcomes and addresses the question: What are the actual, potential and perceived opportunities and risks of social impact investment (SII) for housing and homelessness policy in Australia? It examines different SII finance options and uses financial modelling and case studies to address this question with a focus on access to housing and support for vulnerable households.
The latest Housing Quarterly Report December 2017, that includes the latest figures for the Social Housing Register and an overview of MSD’s housing support, has been published.
The SmartGrowth Housing Need and Demand report was prepared for SmartGrowth Bay of Plenty Partnership,
Tauranga City Council, Western Bay of Plenty District Council, and Bay Trust by Community Housing Solutions.
Today Minister Tywford released ‘A Stocktake of New Zealand’s Housing’, an independent report that examines our housing system. It confirms what we expected – our housing system is failing many New Zealanders – and reveals the true extent of hidden homelessness.
A report has been released by BRANZ that is part of a series under the research programme ‘exceeding the minimum’.
Selwyn District Council is seeking Registrations of Interest (ROI) from New Zealand registered charities having with an interest in providing social housing within Selwyn.
Community Housing Aotearoa (CHA) confirms the community housing sector’s commitment to significantly scale-up and work towards ‘all New Zealanders well-housed’ by 2030 in our briefing paper to the Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Phil Twyford.
The Auditor-General published a report today looking at how well Housing New Zealand uses information to meet the needs of its tenants in its management of tenancies, maintenance of houses, and management and investment in new and existing housing.
More prefabricated units and partitions in existing homes may help with the housing crisis a research group says. Partitioning existing houses would deliver up to 180,000 new dwellings according to research by the Centre for Research, Evaluation and Social Assessment. The director of the centre, Dr Kay Saville-Smith, said 12 per cent of New Zealand's housing stock was under-used and she estimated 45,000 homes in Auckland could be partitioned.
Research carried out by CHA business unit, Community Housing Solutions Ltd, on housing demand and affordability in the Western Bay has painted a picture of declining home ownership, hardship and a rising demand for rentals by couples and people living alone. A housing action plan has been pledged after the study revealed that nearly half of Tauranga's householders would be living in rentals within the next 30 years.
