That is worrying community housing organisations who say that huge increases in permanent, long-term public housing are needed to tackle rapid growth in the number of people urgently seeking a home. Quarterly housing data released last month showed that the waiting...
The KiwiBuild homes are a combination of two and three bedroom brick, standalone homes with internal access garages, elevated and sunny outlooks, and semi-rural and harbour views. Kotātā Heights is a new development within walking distance of Whangarei’s city centre....
It promotes higher density living in cities as the only solution to the chronic shortage of affordable, appropriate housing within reach of jobs and amenities. Listen to the full interview John Myers co-founded the London branch of YIMBY and says the housing problem...
“The number of new homes consented this year is at its highest level since the mid-1970s,” construction statistics manager Melissa McKenzie said. “However, the population was only around 3 million in the 1970s, compared with nearly 5 million today.” See Are we there...
One of the recently constructed homes to go into the Secure Home programme at Cherwell Lane in Shotover Country. The Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust has just completed construction on six new homes at Shotover Country, which are to go into the pilot scheme,...
Included in this newsletter is the Rotorua Lakes Council Request for Expressions of Interest to provide and develop pensioner housing, plus much more Find the newsletter here: 5 October 2017.pdf
The new online Tenancy Service will make renting a property and paying a bond, quicker and easier. It will no longer require cheques and forms to be sent by post. The new system is simple, safe and secure, and will enable the 400,000 bond transactions processed each...
“The design provides a homely environment where tenants feel comfortable and there are opportunities for social interaction,” says Mayor Celia Wade-Brown.The $8.7 million Marshall Court development was a complete new-build project as part of the ongoing $400...
You can see more of the Housing First programme here or see the pdf of his presentation here.The Huffington Post’s NowWhat video: “Housing the Homeless” shows the Housing First programme presented to us at the conference by Sam Tsemberis. Sam...
He said taxpayers were having to pay billions to cover the cost of rent subsidies, student loan tax breaks and childcare. “At the moment, we’re lucky because we’ve got the lowest interest rates in 50 years,” he said. “But imagine if...