IRRS too expensive to extend to local authority housing

Jan 12, 2016 | News

Wellington City Councillor Paul Eagle said it was not fair that councils, which provided 11,000 social houses, were not eligible for the subsidies. CHA Director, Scott Figenshow, comments on the creation of a level playing field in the housing sector in a Radio New...
Research on housing WOF for Wellington and Dunedin

Research on housing WOF for Wellington and Dunedin

Jan 11, 2016 | Research

He Kainga Oranga/Housing and Health Research Programme based at the University of Otago, Wellington, has been funded by the Health Research Council of New Zealand to study the effects of introducing a rental housing WoF. A rental WoF would require basic standards for...

More affordable housing for Christchurch

Dec 15, 2015 | News

The $12 million Hornby Project is a collaborative partnership between the Government, the Christchurch City Council, the New Zealand Housing Foundation, Abbeyfield, Housing Plus Charitable Trust, the Salvation Army and the Christchurch Methodist Mission. The 44-home...

Auckland Council pensioner housing

Dec 15, 2015 | News

A member of Auckland Council’s seniors advisory panel, Richard Northey, said seven providers submitted bids to manage the Auckland flats: British-owned Pinnacle Group and Bupa Care Services; Australian-owned Horizon Housing and Compass Housing; and NZ-owned...

Proposed residential tenancy law ammendments

Dec 7, 2015 | News

The insulation requirements will apply to social housing that is heavily subsidised by Government from 1 July 2016 and to other tenancies from 1 July 2019. All landlords will need to disclose in tenancy agreements from 1 July 2016 the extent of insulation in their...