New Zealand Housing Foundation has a busy year

Nov 23, 2015 | News

With 385 homes built to date, another 391 homes will be built over the next few years. But it’s not just a numbers game. The outcomes for the families the Housing Foundation work with are what keeps them reinvesting in more community housing, whether it be through...
New book out on New Zealand’s housing crisis

New book out on New Zealand’s housing crisis

Nov 23, 2015 | Reports & Articles

Over the past twenty-five years, the quality and affordability of New Zealand housing has declined drastically, says Professor Philippa Howden-Chapman. Short-sighted and discriminatory housing policies have resulted in a society in which the poor and needy are...

Corrin Dan interviews Bill English

Nov 2, 2015 | News

Bill English comments “Well we’re doing as much as we feasibly can right now, and that is working with the Auckland City Council particularly over its new plan, which is going to reset the rules for Auckland. The new action we’re taking is to crank up the...

Baby boomers “fuelling housing crisis”

Nov 2, 2015 | News

Finance Minister Bill English said the lack of affordable housing was the single biggest threat to the country’s economy. In a speech to the Community Housing Aotearoa Conference in Wellington yesterday, Mr English said the government wanted to work with the...

Government wants to work with community housing sector

Oct 23, 2015 | News

He said taxpayers were having to pay billions to cover the cost of rent subsidies, student loan tax breaks and childcare. “At the moment, we’re lucky because we’ve got the lowest interest rates in 50 years,” he said. “But imagine if...