​Shared ownership in Queenstown

Oct 30, 2017 | News

The Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust expects to begin building 14 homes on a greenfield site near Onslow Rd, bordering Lake Hayes Estate, next June. The development will be the trust’s first under its “Secure Home” programme, which is based...

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...

​Phil Twyford reveals $2b KiwiBuild housing scheme

Oct 26, 2017 | News

The just-announced Housing Minister told the NZ Herald how labour, skills and land shortages in the over-stretched, under-delivering, under-resourced high-priced housing market were planned to be resolved by his regime which will change immigration laws and form...

A look at the new Government’s housing policies

Oct 26, 2017 | News

Radio New Zealand news post 26 October. The party has promised to build 100,000 homes for first-home buyers in the next 10 years to deal with the housing crisis. Auckland Housing strategist Leonie Freeman told Nine to Noon co-operation between different sectors was...

​Labour coalition Government announces housing platform

Oct 26, 2017 | News

In the Labour-Greens confidence and supply agreement, reported here by the Herald, there is a promise to deliver innovative home ownership models within the state and a broader community housing programme. “A rent-to-own scheme or similar progressive ownership...