Clearing the way for new housing

The homes were demolished yesterday, and the Nelson Tasman Housing Trust wants the site to build five new homes, the beginning of what it hopes will be a much bigger project. Housing New Zealand would not say what would happen with the site, only that it was still...

Trust on state houses: We won’t buy unless they’re free

Neil Binnie of the Bays Community Housing Trust on Auckland’s North Shore told Cabinet ministers Bill English and Paula Bennett at their first consultation meeting on state-house sales that a price of zero was the only way to fund both buying houses and...

Forgiving Housing Innovation Fund Suspensory Loans and Grants

Did you know that Housing New Zealand Corporation is able, on a case by case basis, to: forgive suspensory loans and conditional grants by amending terms and conditions of the suspensory loans and conditional grants issued under the Housing Innovation Fund; and reduce...

CORT Mt Wellington Development complete

The Prime Minister Rt Hon John Key and Minister of Social Housing Hon Paula Bennett opened CORT’s newest community housing development in Auckland on 29 January 2015. These new homes are for people on low incomes, including those who are elderly and those who...