“This is one more way we can right things for people who needed emergency housing and other MSD support after their Housing NZ tenancies ended because of erroneous meth contamination policies,” Social Development Minister Carmel Sepuloni says. “The Government has...
The consumers price index (CPI) for the June 2019 quarter (to be released on 16 July) will be the first in the world to use administrative rent data in this way to construct the CPI. The new method for measuring rent prices arose from a collaboration with Ministry of...
Delegates and even fellow presenters at the Green property Summit in Auckland took the minister to task for the government not taking the lead by mandating high environmental standards for its own buildings - including schools, hospitals and social housing. “The MBIE...
“There’s been a lot of talk for a long time around retrofitting and warm homes, but we wanted to better direct our resources to improve the lives of families dealing with sickness in cold homes,” says Hutt Mana Charitable Trust Chair John Gwilliam. The Trust already...
Government commitments • Better procurement practices and improved pipeline management • Improved building regulatory systems and consenting processes Industry commitments • Enhanced industry leadership, collaboration and organisation • Better business performance •...
Kia ora koutou I’d like to take the opportunity to introduce the new Ministry of Housing and Urban Development to you as the stakeholders we hope to work closely with. It is an exciting time, with operations beginning on Monday 1 October. The new Ministry will be the...
Site 2 of the former Arlington Apartments in Mount Cook was re-named Te Māra at a dawn blessing on Monday. The units are a mix of one, two, three and four bedrooms, and include a community room on the site. Te Māra offers 160 bedrooms and the potential to house up to...
The new developments are in Otahuhu, Mangere and West Auckland, and provide a mix of newly built one, two and three bedroom homes. “Demand for public housing continues to rise, particularly in Auckland, where about 42% of people on the social housing register reside,”...
Wellington City Council is teaming up with developers to convert an inner-city building into “affordable apartments” in an effort to tackle the capital’s growing housing crisis – at no additional cost to ratepayers. The pilot partnership is...
The units – ranging between one and four bedrooms – occupy part of the former Arlington Apartments site in Mount Cook, the Council’s largest social housing site. Mayor Justin Lester joined representatives of local iwi, Taranaki Whānui ki te Upoko o te Ika, in a...