Wellington council passes affordable housing plan

Wellington mayor Justin Lester Photo: RNZ / Rebekah Parsons-King The council’s city strategy committee voted this morning to adopt the recommendations of the Mayor’s Taskforce on Housing. The committee said the policy would allow 40,000 new homes to be...
Submission on MBIE fire safety draft design guide

Submission on MBIE fire safety draft design guide

CHA agrees the need to develop a reasonable alternate solution to the requirements of the Acceptable Solution C/AS3 which came into effect in July 2014. We are one of the stakeholders who has worked with MBIE over the past three years to develop the Draft Design...

Dwell Housing and Ark Trust work together

Dwell Housing Trust Chief Executive Alison Cadman, and Wadestown Ark Trust’s Dr Brian Ensor celebrate Dwell’s acquisition of five church homes in Wadestown, Wellington. Ownership of five homes built in the early 1980s by the Wadestown Ark Trust was transferred in late...

Concern over reduced HNZC stock

In this Stuff news piece Phil Twyford said there was room for charities to provide social housing, it was up to the government to increase its stock to meet demands.VIRGINIA FALLON/STUFF Porirua state houses were advertised for sale in September 2016 before they were...
BRANZ research on state of NZ homes

BRANZ research on state of NZ homes

The latest House Condition Survey report has found about half of all houses lacked adequate insulation (47 per cent), contributing to many being damp and mouldy (49 per cent). It looked at 560 houses nationwide and weighted findings to represent the total number in...