Paul Majurey, of Marutūāhu descent, chairs the Waimahia and Puhinui Park community housing developments. This was brought together by the Tāmaki Collective of iwi, NZ Housing Foundation, CORT Community Housing and Te Tumu Kainga (the Māori Trustee). Importantly, the...
Bird's eye view of the area in red Taranaki Whānui Limited (the wholly owned commercial arm of Port Nicholson Block Settlement Trust) and the Government’s Land for Housing Programme (HUD) have entered into an MoU to collaborate and work together on the future of a...
APNZL supports the view that government investment in public housing is best achieved through not-for-profit organisations putting people’s needs first. "The Government’s decision to allow private developers access to Community Housing supports is a misguided use of...
This is the opinion of Warwick Quinn, chief executive of New Zealand’s largest construction trade training organisation, BCITO. Quinn says the current review of the New Zealand Qualifications Framework - NZQF - needs to urgently address the issue of vocational...
Developers are signing up to build social housing for the Government in a move described as a "disaster" because it will take funding away from non-profit groups and could allow the houses to be sold off in future for windfall profits. One developer has already been...
Treasury has just released a Market Information document together with details of a series of nationwide presentations to be held 22-26 June 2015. Read more and register here. Note: Registrations are due by 5pm Friday 19 June 2015 Feedback is due by 4pm Friday 3 July...
You can read the Radio NZ article here. Hear comments by Director of Housing and Health Research Programme at Otago University, Philippa Howden-Chapman, and Community Housing Aotearoa Director, Scott Figenshow here. Finally, an interview with the Minister for Housing...
“We would argue that the market price is zero,” Piripi says, because “the outcomes will far outweigh the cost” and the state houses up for grabs are “already a very marginal operation” Says Maori want to negotiate a deal nationally as a collective of iwi because they...
Community housing organisations say the government’s budget initiatives on housing are too timid – and won’t deliver the results needed. “We need to speed up the stock regeneration process for all areas of the country, and ensure the new rent subsidy approach supports...
It creates a ministerial direction power for the Minister responsible for the agency (the Minister for Social Housing) that enables the agency to enter into tailored agreements with social housing providers (Housing New Zealand and registered community housing...