Minister for Māori Development and Associate Minister of Housing Hon Nanaia Mahuta congratulated whānau from Bridge Pa, near Hastings for their vision of building homes on their ancestral land. Te Puni Kōkiri invested $376,661 towards infrastructure costs to assist...
Last Thursday the Queenstown Lakes District Council approved a 3.6ha site on Jopp Street to be assigned to the Trust to build 65 homes for a mixed tenure development. The land has been earmarked for housing since 2003, when the local community identified the site as...
“These 18 two-bedroom and five four-bedroom warm, dry homes on Chippendale Crescent have been designed to meet the needs of families in the area,” Phil Twyford. “They are close to a number of schools, the Beach Haven ferry to Auckland CBD, and are 4km from the...
Influential leaders from business and community are signing up to “sleep rough” at The Lifewise Big Sleepout on one of the coldest, longest nights of winter – Thursday 20th June, 2019. The event will see business and community leaders and entrepreneurs coming together...
“The Tax Working Group gave the Government, and the country, an opportunity to look at the fairness of our tax system and debate options for change,” Jacinda Ardern said. “All parties in the Government entered into this debate with different perspectives and, after...
May has been a big month for the Public Housing sector. On 4 May, the Prime Minister and Minister Twyford announced a $100 million investment into tackling homelessness this winter, and Thursday’s budget announcement gave us insight to the Government’s long-term plan...
Operated by Oasis Network Inc, Hillary Court in Naenae will see up to 15 single males at a time housed and provided with wraparound social services to help them get back on their feet. Oasis Network provide services to people who live or work in the Hutt Valley or the...
Their housing services include tenancy advice, social and emergency housing, home ownership workshops, advice and support. The Gisborne region has some very real housing issues. Dr Kate Amore’s research on housing deprivation show’s that Gisborne has one of the...
Smokefree Social Housing Toolkit: a guide for the design and implementation of smokefree policies in social housing The Toolkit draws on international research as well as on their experience working with the Christchurch City Council to implement their smokefree...
“We’ve done that by using the ‘Housing First’ approach, which is housing people first and then putting the support services around people that will assist them to deal with some of the issues that resulted in them coming onto the street in the...
“I am delighted that Housing New Zealand, the Ministry of Social Development and three providers have worked together to ensure that 14 vulnerable families have somewhere safe and secure to live and where they will receive the help they need to address issues that may...