Message from Chief Executive, Fortnightly Sector Zoom Calls, Tenancy Management Community of Practice, Ngāti Toa Secures A Deal To Ensure High Quality, Healthy And Affordable Homes At Kenepuru Landing, More Progressive Home Ownership Opportunities for First Home...
Message from Chief Executive, SUPPORT FOR MEMBERS, Be part of 'The Big Auckland Morning Tea Shout' for Auckland's frontline community workers, HUD launches new interactive housing dashboard, Submissions close tomorrow on new legislation for restricting terminations...
This is a great opportunity to submit what the different contracting arrangements are that would work for your organisation – and from what you have all been telling us, those would include Long term certainty –matched to the duration of any borrowing – say 25 years...
We understand the position of the NZ Disability Support Network and Disabled Person’s Organisations has not yet been ready to support this technical solution until proper consultation from government occurs. This effort has also built common ground with Housing New...
The timing for submitting a completed copy of the Annual Report Template and reporting documents to CHRA will be affected by the date of your AGM: if this was held between 14 April 2014 and 31 July 2014 - information needs to be to CHRA by 31 August 2014 if it is due...
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The Trust saw an increase in the scale of supply-side initiatives, including increasing the size of the community housing sector, as the most critical policy interventions needed to address issues of housing affordability and the increasing inability of state housing...
The Commission released its draft report Better Urban Planning today. The inquiry examines the current urban planning system in New Zealand and the Commission’s report suggests different ways of delivering urban planning. Recommendations The Commission recommends a...
The Wellington workshop was part of a series of regional workshops around the country. It was attended by around 45 representatives from the Wellington region, including from the business sector, Māori community, academia, social sector, and local/ regional councils....
The article was written by Angie Cairncross, David Zussman and Chris Glaudel from Community Housing Aotearoa (CHA) in May 2016 looking at the alarming reality of homelessness and emergency housing in New Zealand. Read the article here: Spotlight on Homelessness...
Drawing the line – how many state houses do we need? Alan argues the underlying motive for Government to reduce dependence on housing, by moving people along the continuum, ignores the housing reality for many. He points to overseas studies of future demand for social...
The report shows Auckland's housing shortage could last for more than a decade and will get worse before it gets better.One scenario shows the shortage in ten years' time may be little changed from today's estimated 15,000 dwellings. Read more about this research here.
The poll conducted on 17 July shows National down 6.5% in the opinion polls and Labour up 6%. According to the poll: “A slowing New Zealand economy (New Zealand’s GDP growth slowed to 0.2% in the March Quarter 2015 – the slowest New Zealand growth in two years) is...
A key point identified is that public housing transfer proposals in Australia have tended to involve only a very limited amount of prior tenant or community consultation, due to short time frames for program implementation and competitive processes for selection of...
Effective procurement that maximises productive, sustainable margins to the industry, while delivering fit-for purpose dwellings at an affordable price to the community sector is needed to increase supply. Partnering approaches involving collaborative design, project...
Information contained in the spreadsheet includes three worksheets of data. The first provides a portfolio overview by geographic areas including number of properties by bedroom, occupied and vacant units, and the average weekly market rent. The second provides...
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A new report shows there is a massive inequality concern that is rightly troubling many New Zealanders: housing. In short, New Zealand’s ‘inequality crisis’ is really a housing crisis.
Are we in danger of building socially stratified, exclusive cities of privilege?
CHA would like to thank all of you who took the time to respond to our survey for the quarter ending 31 March 2016. We are building on the work conducted in 2014 to get a more comprehensive and dynamic view of the sector.
Household incomes in New Zealand: Trends in indicators of inequality and hardship 1982 to 2015
The cross-party homelessness inquiry of Labour, Māori and Green Parties are asking people who are homeless, those who were once homeless, those working with the homeless and concerned New Zealanders to share their experiences and solutions to this issue. CHA have worked with He Kainga Oranga/Housing and Health Research Programme to prepare a two-part submission for the inquiry.
Number of housing consents doubled but is it enough?
The number of new homes consented per capita has doubled over the past five years, but is only half the level seen at the peak of the 1970s building boom, Statistics New Zealand said today. Over the year to June 2016, six new homes were consented for every thousand people living in New Zealand. This number has been increasing since the June 2011 year, when only three new homes were consented for every thousand residents.
Are we really serious about a community housing sector
In 2007 this paper was written by Marc Slade for the Wellington Housing Trust , now Dwell Housing. It makes the case to Government, and other political parties, of the necessity to increase the overall supply of social housing, and to achieve this by supporting the growth of the community-housing sector.
Severe housing deprivation in Aotearoa/New Zealand 2001-2013
More than half of all homeless adults in New Zealand are working or studying, say University of Otago, Wellington (UOW) researchers.
UOW researcher Dr Kate Amore, from the Health Research Council-funded He Kainga Oranga/Housing and Health Research Programme, analysed the ‘severely housing deprived’ population, using census and administrative data.
Draft Productivity Commission report on better urban planning now available
The Productivity Commission is seeking feedback on its proposal for a future urban planning system in New Zealand. The Commission released its draft report Better Urban Planning last week. The inquiry examines the current urban planning system in New Zealand and the Commission’s report suggests different ways of delivering urban planning.
New Zealand’s long-term Future- feedback from the June Treasury workshops
CHA is pleased that Treasury has allowed us to share the interim feedback from their June workshops conducted around the country to update their economic narrative.
Neighbourhood social mix and outcomes for social housing tenants: rapid review
A Superu commissioned report prepared last year (November 2015) by CRESA looks at: What does the evidence show about the proportion of social housing in an area and outcomes for social housing tenants, and what factors mitigate possible negative outcomes?