Is pre-fabrication the answer?

Nov 16, 2017 | News

Photo/ ANNA PRICE Andrew Booker, Housing NZ general manager of business innovation and development, expects prefabrication and off-site manufacturing to be over 50 per cent of the houses built in the next two to three years. In this Stuff article Pamela Bell of Prefab...

Indigneous co-housing development for Flaxmere

Nov 16, 2017 | News

Reported by Maori Television. “What’s different about this to a social housing project is this is about housing development and moving a whanau from out of those social housing situations into a home ownership situation,” says Mike Paku chairman of...
CHA 24 October community housing sector seminar

CHA 24 October community housing sector seminar

Nov 2, 2017 | Reports & Articles

We heard from Alan Johnson, Salvation Army Social Policy and Research Unit, on the Taking Stock report he produced earlier in the year, with discussion facilitated by Kay Saville-Smith of CRESA. Consensus was reached on the goal and the settings necessary to build the...

A satellite city in the south key to funding and meeting growth

Oct 31, 2017 | News

Infrastructure NZ is New Zealand’s peak infrastructure body. They released this press release on 30 October “Our latest report released last week examines the cost of growth in different greenfield areas around the city where land is accessible and non-sensitive...

Co-housing developing around New Zealand

Oct 30, 2017 | News

A concept sketch for Dunedin project High Street Cohousing Photo: Supplied by www.architype.co.nz Co-housing involves family homes being built in clusters of up to 35, around shared living spaces, gardens and communal facilities. The concept has existed in some other...