Housing situation reaching new low

Feb 2, 2016 | News

Will Matthews, president of the Auckland University Students’ Association, said sex-for-rent was the “shocking” reality struggling students were facing in today’s unaffordable rental market. Last year, the average weekly rent in Auckland hit...
CHA comments on the Residential Tenancies Ammendment Bill

CHA comments on the Residential Tenancies Ammendment Bill

Jan 27, 2016 | Submissions

CHA believes that the ammendments are better than the status quo but do not go far enough. Read our submission here. And our press release here A number of research papers have been written that support the sector’s call for a Housing Warrant of Fitness that are...

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...

Outspoken on social housing

Jan 12, 2016 | News

Social housing issues have dominated headlines this year following the Government’s plan to sell off tens of thousands of state houses to non-Government providers, starting with hundreds in Invercargill and Tauranga. However, the plan struck problems with some...
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...