To ensure that public policies that get proposed or implemented to create a new housing system get discussed properly in the public, we need a different language to talk about why good housing matters for everyone. In New Zealand our homes are our castles. A place of...
The KiwiBuild homes are a combination of two and three bedroom brick, standalone homes with internal access garages, elevated and sunny outlooks, and semi-rural and harbour views. Kotātā Heights is a new development within walking distance of Whangarei’s city centre....
“The number of new homes consented this year is at its highest level since the mid-1970s,” construction statistics manager Melissa McKenzie said. “However, the population was only around 3 million in the 1970s, compared with nearly 5 million today.” See Are we there...
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 time it takes to consents and the uncertainty of the consenting process are two major obstacles to housing development, he says. Speaking after joining a panel presentation at a conference in Auckland on residential development, Evans says the process needs to...
The Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust has confirmed it will purchase 50 apartments within New Ground Capital’s development at Remarkables Park, after obtaining funds from Westpac bank. The one- and two-bedroom apartments are part of New Ground Capital’s...
Chief Executive Scott Figenshow says today’s announcement the Government is buying Unitec’s Mt Albert campus site to build up to 4000 homes is a great step towards ensuring all New Zealanders are well-housed The development will be a mix of affordable KiwiBuild homes...
Some 29.3 hectares of bare and developed land will be acquired in an arrangement that will see the Crown develop the area in concert with iwi of the Ngā Mana Whenua o Tāmaki Makaurau collective, an urban Maori representative body that has held rights of first refusal...
It is located at the Unitec site in Mt Albert. ‘It’s going to be the site of an exciting new urban development project that will see probably between 3000 and 4000 new homes built there.’ I would hope that we’d see between 30 and 40% KiwiBuild affordable homes for...