This week a report found New Zealand is one of the most unaffordable countries in the world to buy a house, with the average price more than six times the median household income. More than six months into KiwiBuild, only 33 homes have been built - well short of the...
"The government could lower unit construction costs in many ways, as it is well aware," former Business Roundtable economist Bryce Wilkinson says in a new research note today. It could ease up on red tape, improve the supply of urban land by removing regulatory...
Stephen Barclay, head of the KiwiBuild unit Photo: RNZ / Patrick O'Meara In a statement issued on his behalf, it was announced that he would step down from today. Housing Minister Phil Twyford's office said he would not be commenting on Mr Barclay's resignation as it...
The Labour-led government risks electoral defeat in 2020 unless it makes demonstrable progress on affordable housing this year, says the outspoken author of an annual survey of global housing affordability. Hugh Pavletich, the Christchurch-based co-author of the...
The 15th annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Study compared house prices to incomes in New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Ireland, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States and found Tauranga had again out-stripped Auckland...
Even the victims of Glen Innes’ state housing transformation can see the logic behind it. Well, most of them. In Fernwood Place, in GI’s north-east corner, just two Housing NZ tenants remain in a street of 30 state and former state houses. Read the full...
The Government wants a new approach to social housing, which would see more private providers, such as church groups and iwi, take on vulnerable tenants as the Government sells off thousands of homes. Housing New Zealand (HNZ) confirmed to the Nelson Mail there are...
This is a great opportunity for attendees to learn more about the practical aspects of asset management planning, and see a demonstration of a proven software tool that is being successfully used in New Zealand and Australia. Friday, 21 November 2014 10.00am to...
The network of not-for-profit, social enterprises and charitable trusts, called the Auckland Community Housing Network, is particularly worried the Government has given no guarantee the money gained from an asset sale would be reinvested in the housing sector. The...