A concept rendering of one of the EasyBuild homes which will be built at Wesley Rātā Village in Naenae. The affordable rental homes are part of a development being run by Methodist organisation Wesley Community Action at Wesley Rātā Village in Naenae. The project was...
The 720-hectare Peacocke area south of the city officially became part of Hamilton, from the Waipa district, in 1989. From the beginning, and with its close proximity to the city, it was tagged for new housing development. However, the prohibitive cost of...
The Times-Age has seen letters to a tenant in a 100sq m house putting the rent up by $15 a week in April last year and $20 a week from March this year to $288 a week. "It's blimmen shocking, a lot are struggling and it's going to be soon a lot out on the street," one...
When a nation’s flagship housing policy is such a spectacular failure that it makes the New York Times, the minister in charge cannot avoid the international embarrassment. This is the position Housing Minister Phil Twyford now finds himself in. Having arrogantly...
Trust House boss Allan Pollard said Trust House would borrow $15m to $17m for the plan that could solve the housing crisis in the region. He is disappointed nothing has happened over “months and months” of talks and that the Government is looking at “lining the...
Information contained in the spreadsheet includes three worksheets of data. The first provides a portfolio overview by geographic areas including number of properties by bedroom, occupied and vacant units, and the average weekly market rent. The second provides...
If you want a state house or “social housing” with a view, forget it. Beautiful views are banned in a draft new Government policy. Double garages and decks are out, too. The draft of the Social Development Ministry’s “purchasing...
The Housing Assistance Reform Feedback Group (HARFG) met in Wellington on 26 February. The items discussed at yesterday’s meeting of the HARFG included: MSD IRRS Purchasing Intentions Emergency Housing Funding Review Housing Restructuring and Tenancy Matters Act...
Neil Binnie of the Bays Community Housing Trust on Auckland’s North Shore told Cabinet ministers Bill English and Paula Bennett at their first consultation meeting on state-house sales that a price of zero was the only way to fund both buying houses and...