Subject to public consultation, Housing New Zealand will develop between 230 and 300 homes on the site in Mt Cook, which will include up to 40 supported-living units for Wellington’s most vulnerable homeless people. The proposal will be on the agenda for next week’s...
To ensure that public policies that get proposed or implemented to create a new housing system get discussed properly in the public, we need a different language to talk about why good housing matters for everyone. In New Zealand our homes are our castles. A place of...
Housing numbers for the not-for-profit community housing sector in 2018 show little if any increase over those in 2017. Figurers from Auckland housing network members show a net increase of 57 new housing places including an increase of only 47 new builds. “The...
That is worrying community housing organisations who say that huge increases in permanent, long-term public housing are needed to tackle rapid growth in the number of people urgently seeking a home. Quarterly housing data released last month showed that the waiting...
The HASHAA legislation was established in 2013 as an interim measure until wider reforms to improve housing affordability took effect. It is set to expire on 16 September. Phil Twyford said that although the law had increased housing supply in some areas, it had not...
Included in this newsletter is the Rotorua Lakes Council Request for Expressions of Interest to provide and develop pensioner housing, plus much more Find the newsletter here: 5 October 2017.pdf
Treasury has just released a Market Information document together with details of a series of nationwide presentations to be held 22-26 June 2015. Read more and register here. Note: Registrations are due by 5pm Friday 19 June 2015 Feedback is due by 4pm Friday 3 July...
“We would argue that the market price is zero,” Piripi says, because “the outcomes will far outweigh the cost” and the state houses up for grabs are “already a very marginal operation” Says Maori want to negotiate a deal nationally as a collective of iwi because they...
It creates a ministerial direction power for the Minister responsible for the agency (the Minister for Social Housing) that enables the agency to enter into tailored agreements with social housing providers (Housing New Zealand and registered community housing...