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,...
The event will see businesses, entrepreneurs and community leaders coming together to raise funds that will go towards Lifewise’s work for ending homelessness. Stripped of their creature comforts, Lifewise Big Sleepout participants will battle the elements spending a...
This is about saving lives of young children and older people especially, who are made ill by the condition of their homes and die as a result. This is about helping children stay well so they can attend school and improve their education. This is about ensuring those...
REINZ is very supportive of the proposed healthy homes standards, but this needs to be implemented in a way that finds a balance for landlords rather than causing them to withdraw from the market given the raft of legislative changes currently in the market. Bindi...
“Everyone who wants to fix this, and help make our homes healthy, warm and dry places to thrive in, to build lifelong happy memories in, will welcome this announcement as a much needed shift towards a better, kinder New Zealand. “But today’s announcement is not quite...
Find the newsletter here: august 18 newsletter.pdf Several of you emailed us this cartoon from the New Zealand Herald on August 17 – has it struck a chord?
Carol Smith said she and her children are happy to finally be in a house of their own. Carol Smith’s home is a happy place, full of the sounds of laughter and play. But things haven’t always been so good. The 36-year-old and her seven children have lived...
The Ministry of Social Development is planning to buy a 17-unit motel near Blenheim and convert it for emergency housing. Brydan Accommodation in Springlands, which has a swimming pool and hydrotherapy spa pool, is currently advertised as premium accommodation. The...
We’re pleased to see a group of four announcements in the budget: ·$100m towards to 10 year crown land housing programme ·$224m boost for mental health ·An increase in the Accommodations Supplement of nearly $255m per year to update the benefit levels for 136,000...
Some providers received a directive from the ministry telling them not to talk to media without first talking to it, they told Checkpoint last week. According to Radio NZ, an email,with the subject ‘Media Protocol’, was sent by a regional contracts...
Labour party congress discusses housing policy Sunday, 14 May 2017 1:49 pm | New Zealand Labour Party Press Release the Labour party wants to end tax breaks for speculators and invest in warm, healthy homes Labour will shut down tax breaks for speculators and use the...