Government urged to take human rights approach to house building

Community Housing Aotearoa, the representative body for New Zealand’s community housing sector, welcomes the Government’s Housing Stocktake Report highlighting the challenges the housing sector faces. Chief Executive Scott Figenshow says the stocktake is an essential...

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...