Are you interested in applying your skills at a national level? Please come join the CHA team, and work towards ‘All New Zealanders well-housed’. CHA is recruiting a Communications Manager. Read the job description CHA Communications Manager JD Final Sept 2020.pdf and...
Are you interested in applying your skills at a national level? Please come join the CHA team, and work towards ‘All New Zealanders well-housed’. CHA is recruiting a Policy and Practice Manager (Homelessness). Read the job description CHA Policy and Practice Manager...
Human Rights Commission releases troubling indicators on habitability, COVID-19 RESPONSE, First funds released from council housing reserve, Seven-point plan released to tackle cost of living, Community Finance nominated for top industry award, In the News, Events,...
Haere rā to Brennan Rigby, Manager of Systems Shift, And the Supreme Business Excellence Award goes to…, CHA and Community Finance highlighted as leading housing systems change, Changes to the Healthy Homes Standards finalised, Practical Actions on Climate Change,...
Welcome to Justin Latif, CHA's new Communications Lead, COVID-19 Response, Ministry for the Environment releases draft National Medium Density Design Guide, Fair Pay Agreement Bill update, Update on the Incorporated Societies Bill, In The News, Events, Community...
COVID-19 RESPONSE, From bank overdraft debt repayment plan and into a 'rent-to-own' place of their own, Homelessness Action Plan 18 Month Review, In the News, EVENTS, Sector Call online zoom on Property Management Regulations, Property Council New Zealand -...
Community Housing Aotearoa (CHA) Newsletter 7 March 2022 COVID-19 Response, Transitional Housing ready for Tāmaki Whānau, CORT Community Housing Appoints New CEO, Consultation on proposed regulation of residential property managers, Far North District Council housing...
Thank you to those members who provided their comments and issues of concern. We also appreciate the expert advice from Steve Thompson and Aran Bailey from Deloitte. The submission can be found here.
The purpose of the document is to provide “up-to-date information about the social housing market and MSD’s purchasing intentions, to support housing providers to make investment decisions”. Please read the document and let us (and MSD) know what you think. You can...
In particular property owners, builders, tradespeople and businesses who have experienced the issues created by irrelevant or unnecessary regulations, can now report these to a Rules Reduction Taskforce which will identify pedantic and unnecessary rules that frustrate...
More information about the review and a link to the survey is available at the following link here. The survey is open until Friday 1 May. MSD is keen to hear from as wide a range of providers as possible so would greatly welcome your participation in this survey and...
What we have heard from you and relayed to MSD is that greater certainty is required for you to make investment decisions. We conveyed that members are interested in understanding the following: 1. The specific locations where MSD intends to purchase additional social...
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With 300 people joining us at our conference last week this was an amazing event. Thank you to all of you who took part and engaged with the content to make this our best conference yet. And a big thank you to all our sponsors, listed below, for helping to make this...
Here is the report 'Off the Track' February 2017 What the report says on housing The report finds that housing has become harder to find and less affordable in Auckland, but the situation is more stable elsewhere. The report says Auckland's...
CHA thanks all the community housing providers who took the time to take part in the survey for the 3rd quarter of 2016. With your help we now have a more accurate view of the sector. This is fantastic news as this data can lead to a more informed purchasing strategy,...
The report states that: “Housing New Zealand maintains a clear focus on meeting our social objectives, while managing a property portfolio that has an investment rationale based around long-term rental sustainability. We continue to earn excellent long-term rental...
Key findings: The proportion of all people in households living in an owner-occupied dwelling fell from 75.2 percent to 63.7 percent between 1986 and 2013, a decline of 15.3 percent. Conversely, the proportion of the population living in dwellings that were not owned...
In order to expand to meet the demand of lower income households currently on waiting lists for public and community housing, the industry will need access to a large scale, dependable and sustainable source of finance at an appropriate interest rate. Sound familiar!...
New household tenure data from Statistics New Zealand shows that the number of households renting has increased significantly over the last 10 years. As at 31 March 2006, there were 1,546,300 households in this country, of which 1,033,900 were owner-occupiers (67%)...
The findings from a BRANZ-funded study of MGHs are contained in a recently released BRANZ research report, Meeting the housing needs of multi-generational households, authored by Dr Penny Lysnar and Associate Professor Ann Dupuis. The researchers examined census data...
New Zealand house prices have risen significantly over the past five decades. In real terms, house prices have more than tripled, with a strong upward trend since 1994. Nonetheless, there have been several instances where real house prices have fallen. There have been...
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Our submission on the Urban Development Authority bill prepared and submitted this month, sees the problems and solutions identified in the Bill’s discussion document and regulatory impact statement as generally correct.
CHA is pleased to see the release of the new Housing Affordability Measure, a tier one official statistic. The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s (MBIE) new measure will allow the market to be monitored at a more detailed level and has been developed independently by Statistics New Zealand and MBIE. It measures how much money households have left each week after meeting housing costs and sets the benchmark at 2013 figures.
Rental homes in poorer condition than owner occupied homes
On Wednesday 12 April the New Zealand Housing Foundation (NZHF) publicly released three new research reports on the benefits of transitioning people into housing tenures that offer affordable ownership outcomes. The reports have been written by the Family Centre Social Policy Research Unit (FCSPRU), Business and Economic Research Limited (BERL), and Nexus Research.
Community housing providers, procurement and the building industry
This report looks at the procurement processes and relationship that community housing providers have with the building industry through in-depth interviews with 17 community housing providers who have built new residential dwellings either on green-fields or re-developed sites since 2014.
Research finds that having an affordable home next door provides wider community benefits with no negative effects
New research has found that there is no significant impact on house prices where inclusionary zoning was used to deliver affordable homes in local neighbourhoods.
Report of the Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing the Financialization of Housing
Disability and housing conditions: 2013 compares housing characteristics of disabled and non-disabled people living in private dwellings using data from the 2013 New Zealand Disability Survey (NZDS).
Standards New Zealand is currently consulting on updated standards for the Testing and Decontamination of Methamphetamine Contaminated Properties (NZS 8510).
A new study from the University of Otago, Wellington has found that young people are experiencing increased health problems, stress, and adverse social effects from cold housing.
Beneficiaries and low-spending households experienced the highest inflation over the past year, Statistics NZ reported. From the December 2015 quarter to the December 2016 quarter their overall costs increased 1.4 percent. This was more than double the rate of inflation experienced by New Zealand's highest spenders (up 0.6 percent).
Te Waipounamu community housing network hosted Karen Mitchell, Treasury, and Scott Gallacher, Ministry of Social Development, on 2 February to discuss the market sounding process for the transfer of Housing New Zealand properties in Christchurch.
