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...
The KiwiBuild homes are a combination of two and three bedroom brick, standalone homes with internal access garages, elevated and sunny outlooks, and semi-rural and harbour views. Kotātā Heights is a new development within walking distance of Whangarei’s city centre....
It promotes higher density living in cities as the only solution to the chronic shortage of affordable, appropriate housing within reach of jobs and amenities. Listen to the full interview John Myers co-founded the London branch of YIMBY and says the housing problem...
“The number of new homes consented this year is at its highest level since the mid-1970s,” construction statistics manager Melissa McKenzie said. “However, the population was only around 3 million in the 1970s, compared with nearly 5 million today.” See Are we there...
One of the recently constructed homes to go into the Secure Home programme at Cherwell Lane in Shotover Country. The Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust has just completed construction on six new homes at Shotover Country, which are to go into the pilot scheme,...
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...
According to its social housing spokesperson Major Campbell Roberts, the charity organisation lacked the “expertise, infrastructure and resources to successfully manage any social housing transfer of size”. The announcement is a knock for the Government...
The housing provider continues to engage constructively with the government, sector partners and all interested parties to assess the value of this government programme to its mission. “Habitat for Humanity believes that everyone deserves a simple, decent place to...
“Decades of underinvestment by successive Governments managing state housing through a single national provider has failed to deliver safe, warm and healthy housing, let alone a vibrant local economy, secure neighbourhoods and a bright future for residents. “The...