Housing numbers for the not-for-profit community housing sector in 2018 show little if any increase over those in 2017. Figurers from Auckland housing network members show a net increase of 57 new housing places including an increase of only 47 new builds. “The...
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,...
Also included in this edition is information on: the $300 million funding for emergency housing, the National Policy Statement on Urban Development and the latest annual report from Housing NZ. Read the newsletter here: 17 November 2016.pdf
You'll also find more information on: Responding to Indigenous Homelessness in Australia and New Zealand, the latest edition of Parity magazine RFP for ‘better outcomes’ funding closes 18 November Recommendations for methamphetamine contamination clean-up New housing...
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...
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...