Porirua regeneration means thousands of new homes

Nov 2, 2018 | News

Thousands of families will enjoy new state homes, affordable KiwiBuild and market homes under a plan to revitalise eastern Porirua as the Government continues to tackle the housing crisis. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the plan was the biggest and most ambitious...

Chris Glaudel’s email to Andrew Crisp

Nov 1, 2018 | News

Thank you for attending the Community Housing Aotearoa workshop this morning. Our members valued the opportunity to hear from you and to ask questions. We appreciate the amount of time you chose to spend with us discussing this important issue. As a sector, we are...

Mayoral Housing Taskforce reports on progress

Oct 25, 2018 | News

“The Mayoral Housing Taskforce for the first time brought all the sectors involved in housing together – private sector, local and central government – and its report received bipartisan support last year. “Its goal was to increase the scale and pace of housing...

​ Govt exceeds some social housing promises – fails on others

Oct 24, 2018 | News

Housing First tenant, Stan, has lived in his new home for the past year, after years on the streets. It’s been a year since the formation of the coalition government and as part of an RNZ special, One Year On, we look at whether these promises have been met and...

KiwiBuy the only answer to the housing shortage

Oct 18, 2018 | News

Its new paper ‘Beyond Renting’, released today by the Army’s Social Policy and Parliamentary Unit, offers a bleak outlook for the private rental housing market. To meet these future demands the report suggests the government needs to look beyond the private rental...