Difficulty of finding affordable rental housing

Elderly woman outlines the plight of finding affordable rental housing on Auckland’s North Shore. Interview with Bays Community Trust and CORT Housing Trust http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/player/2596858

Radio NZ Insight: Auckland’s Housing Crisis

The Radio New Zealand Insight programme from 30 March 2014 includes comments from developers, bankers, local and central government agencies and Peter Jeffries, CEO, CORT Community Housing (Community of Refuge Trust). “This year a raft of new policies and initiatives...

Big wins in housing will come from regulation, not budgets

More new spending was limited by fiscal restraint. The big wins in reality will come from regulatory change, and that should be the priority for this government. The crisis in housing has been building for four decades. It took us a long time to get here, we should...

Asbestos clarifications welcome relief for landlords

On 4 April this year new rules came into force under the Health and Safety at Work (asbestos) Regulations which means that if you own or occupy a building which contains asbestos you needed to have a management plan in place. Bindi Norwell, Chief Executive at REINZ...