Cabinet approves changes on social housing register

The changes include: • Reducing from three to one the number of times a person can decline a home without a good and sufficient reason before they are removed from the social housing register. • Where reasonable, requiring people on the social housing register to name...

Community housing tax entities

This sets out the threshold income and asset levels of beneficiaries and clients of community housing trusts and companies, amongst other technical changes. It includes: The threshold income for an applicant who is not a member of a group of applicants is $80,000. The...
South Auckland school researches mould in local houses

South Auckland school researches mould in local houses

The key results from the project 18 out of 22 homes were mouldy, and all had the right temperature and humidity to grow mould; the mould was readily recovered in a form that was likely to cause harm; three different yeasts described as “emerging human...