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...
Insulation features in “healthy homes” regulations that Housing and Urban Development Minister Phil Twyford is expected to impose next month. Under existing law, New Zealand’s 262,000 owners of rental property are required to install both ceiling and underfloor...
The Government recently established the new Construction and Infrastructure Skill Shortage List (CISSL) to address the ongoing problem of short supply of construction workers in New Zealand. But the new list scheme is likely to be too rigid to be effective, and will...
Mystery already surrounded Barclay's nearly three month absence from his position as inaugural head of the government's flagship KiwiBuild programme, before the one-time head of the San Francisco America's Cup village tendered his resignation earlier today Barclay...
Radio New Zealand, in particular, have done a great job focusing on the issue. You can find some of the media below. Meanwhile, Social Housing Minister Paula Bennett has said that New Zealand’s housing problems are not new but the result of ongoing issues and...
More comment from emergency housing providers and the homeless are found in the media here. Radio New Zealand ‘out-of-touch’-on-auckland-housing-labour radionz life-in-an-overcrowded,-cold-home radionz.co.nz...
Last year these two organisations combined as Emerge Aotearoa with a focus:To provide high quality housing, supports and services that enable people and their whanau in distress due to mental health or addiction issues, disability, trauma, violence, homelessness,...
There’s more demand for emergency housing than there has ever been and providers are distressed. And while local communities are coming together to find solutions we’ve only just started to see some leadership from Government. In this article, written in May...