New SHA’s great but more needed

Matt Paetz, a leading New Zealand planner specialising in housing policy and development who is presenting at the New Zealand Planning Institute’s annual conference in Dunedin next week, has worked on housing accords and SHAs in Auckland, Wellington and Queenstown. He...

CHA/NZCID Joint Work

On 15 April, with thanks to our gracious host BECA at their Pitt St, Auckland Auditorium, over 100 gathered for a panel discussion with Andrew Wilson (Accessible Properties), Dominic Foote (NZ Housing Foundation), Rohan Bush (Auckland Council), John Abel-Pattinson...

Community Legal Manual

The manual and its free online portal are produced by Community Law, an Aotearoa-wide provider of quality-assured free legal help, providing information about areas of law where there is a lot at stake (and no money for lawyers) including family law, Māori land,...

VisionWest’s homes win 2013 NZIA Auckland Architecture Awards

The third year architecture students at UNITEC both designed and built the four bedroom and two bedroom houses, under the supervision of SGA, based on VisionWest’s brief, which also involved input from existing tenants, for affordable and sustainable housing that...