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...

SmartGrowth Housing Affordability Forum in Bay of Plenty

Oct 30, 2017 | News

Community Housing Aotearoa Scott Figenshow chief executive with Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust executive officer Julie Scott in front of homes under the shared equity scheme in Queenstown. Experts at a SmartGrowth Housing Affordability Forum workshop looked...