That is worrying community housing organisations who say that huge increases in permanent, long-term public housing are needed to tackle rapid growth in the number of people urgently seeking a home. Quarterly housing data released last month showed that the waiting...
The KiwiBuild homes are a combination of two and three bedroom brick, standalone homes with internal access garages, elevated and sunny outlooks, and semi-rural and harbour views. Kotātā Heights is a new development within walking distance of Whangarei’s city centre....
It promotes higher density living in cities as the only solution to the chronic shortage of affordable, appropriate housing within reach of jobs and amenities. Listen to the full interview John Myers co-founded the London branch of YIMBY and says the housing problem...
“The number of new homes consented this year is at its highest level since the mid-1970s,” construction statistics manager Melissa McKenzie said. “However, the population was only around 3 million in the 1970s, compared with nearly 5 million today.” See Are we there...
One of the recently constructed homes to go into the Secure Home programme at Cherwell Lane in Shotover Country. The Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust has just completed construction on six new homes at Shotover Country, which are to go into the pilot scheme,...
We also look at new research on community housing providers, procurement and the building industry and there will be a briefing on this and other research on 9 May. Included is an update on the Auckland emergency housing network and a look at the research on...
In this newsletter: 30 march 2017.pdf A response to homelessness in Wellington Three organisations sit at the centre of a Wellington City Council funded direct response to homelessness. Te Whakamura Ai Te Ahi means ‘to keep the home fires burning’. It is a...
Other information in this edition includes a link to the Tamaki expressions of interest for tenancy management, plus news and events of interest to the sector. 17 March newsletter.pdf
I commissioned independent experts to report on the state of housing in New Zealand to provide an additional important contribution that will help inform Government policy decisions. This report assesses the key parts of our housing system; examining market renting,...
“Ten years may seem like a long time but the reality is that poverty among children is deeply entrenched, and the result of years of economic changes that have impacted severely on families,” says CPAG Co-convenor Alan Johnson. “It will take us a...
The Housing First model is focussed is an internationally recognised approach to working with people who have been homeless for a long time. It places them into long-term housing immediately with no readiness conditions and then provides support services to help...
Te Rakohikohiko Tumata (right) with her daughter Deezya Tumata, 7. Photo/Stephen Parker The Rotorua Daily Post reported on this families experience and the service provided by LinkPeople. They say that Te Rakohikohiko tried to make a move to Australia last year, but...