Community Housing Aotearoa (CHA) Newsletter 30 May 2022, 2022 Minister of Health Volunteer Awards now open for nominations, Community Finance takes out Innovation in Finance award, Budget 2022 panel discussion, Two new Pacific roles at CHA, NRHCC - winter wellness and...
Māori, Pacific needs left out of one size fits all approach to high-density developments, HUD and CHA Online Engagement on draft Public Housing Design Guidelines, In the News, RESOURCES, 2022 updates to healthy homes standards regulations take effect today,...
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...
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...
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...
Excellence in Social Housing Outstanding Achievement Inspirational Team Member Leading Innovation Leading Asset Management Leading Tenant Engagement Practice Leading Housing Development Project Tenant Led Initiative With the extended closing date we are hoping that...
The Housing Assistance Reform Feedback Group (HARFG) met in Wellington on 26 February. The items discussed at yesterday’s meeting of the HARFG included: MSD IRRS Purchasing Intentions Emergency Housing Funding Review Housing Restructuring and Tenancy Matters Act...
Feel free to copy as you wish from this draft (provided in word format) for your own submission. Alternatively, please email Scott at [email protected] if you wish CHA to specifically name your organization in support of the CHA submission. Draft...
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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...
The key points Shamubeel Eaqub makes are: The New Zealand housing market is hot Auckland in particular is overheated The effects are spilling over to other regions This is in part due to government policies Many new policies have been tried, none are having the...
Also identified are critical demographic changes, the importance of Māori, the continuing uncertainty of the role of the Resource Management Act, and the need to better account for social complexities in addressing housing and transport challenges. The United Nations...
The register provides information on: the number of people on the register and comparison to September 2015 how many people are Priority A or B the most common type of application, eg single adult the most common age group and ethnicity of people applying the number...
Inequality after housing costs is significantly higher than before housing costs. While incomes have risen for high and low earners, the rising cost of housing especially hits the poor. The report: The Inequality Paradox: Why inequality matters even though it has...
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...
He Kainga Oranga/Housing and Health Research Programme based at the University of Otago, Wellington, has been funded by the Health Research Council of New Zealand to study the effects of introducing a rental housing WoF. A rental WoF would require basic standards for...
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More prefabricated units and partitions in existing homes may help with the housing crisis a research group says. Partitioning existing houses would deliver up to 180,000 new dwellings according to research by the Centre for Research, Evaluation and Social Assessment. The director of the centre, Dr Kay Saville-Smith, said 12 per cent of New Zealand's housing stock was under-used and she estimated 45,000 homes in Auckland could be partitioned.
Research carried out by CHA business unit, Community Housing Solutions Ltd, on housing demand and affordability in the Western Bay has painted a picture of declining home ownership, hardship and a rising demand for rentals by couples and people living alone. A housing action plan has been pledged after the study revealed that nearly half of Tauranga's householders would be living in rentals within the next 30 years.
Human Rights Commission points to insecure rentals in New Zealand
New Zealand is projected to have over 2.2 million households in 2038, 500,000 more than now, Statistics New Zealand said today. According to the medium projection, the country will have more households in every region, city, and in most districts.
Facilitated by Leonie Freeman, a successful workshop was held on 24 November and built on the impetus from the CHA IMPACT conference in June. This was a workshop on the 'Getting Ready Project'.
Review of emergency housing occupancy/tenancy agreements
Community Housing Aotearoa (CHA) is reviewing the occupancy and tenancy agreements used by emergency and transitional housing providers to support the development of best practice in the use of these documents.
The latest Housing Quarterly Report September 2017, which includes the latest figures for the Social Housing Register and an overview of MSD’s housing support has been published.
Effects of minor household interventions on social housing quality
Half of New Zealand’s renters report damp or mould problems with their homes, which can have negative health implications. Tenants in a newly upgraded social housing complex complained of being cold. Sealing strips around doors and baffles in rangehoods were installed.
Community Housing sector leaders met on 24 October 2017 to build consensus on the settings that would increase supply of social and affordable housing and working toward ‘all New Zealanders well-housed by 2030’.
On the 28 April 2017 the Auckland Community Housing Providers network hosted a workshop with the Associate Minister of Social Housing, Hon Alfred Ngaro. The workshop was designed to identify the issues, barriers and solutions to community
housing organisations stepping-up at greater scale to more robustly assist in addressing Auckland’s severe housing problems.
We have prepared our submission on the MBIE fire safety draft design guide. The proposed design guide is of great interest to our members providing residential community housing.