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...
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...
In its submission, CHA supports, in principle, the Council’s preferred Option as set out in section 3.2 of the “Reasons for the Proposal”. Read the CHA Submission here
CHA acknowledges that the purpose of this Bill is to ensure that New Zealand significantly improves work place health and safety conditions through a set of world class standards of protection for its citizens. CHA has concerns that the language of the Bill goes too...
We will be asking for your feedback post-implementation. For those of you who missed the sessions, the latest information on the changes to social housing is available atwww.msd.govt.nz/social-housing. We are still eagerly awaiting details of the Regulatory...
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Of the SD goals, goal 11 most relates to the community housing sector in New Zealand. It aims to make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. One of the key targets is to ensure access for all to adequate, safe and affordable housing...
This is a two-stage project. The first stage report: 'Structuring Options' is available here: CHA Structuring Options (FINAL).pdf The survey of the seven organisations on the CHA Council were thought to represent a range of providers due to being: small or large,...
“There is a real contradiction in government support and our members’ experience," says Trevor. Work and Income’s Special Needs Grants for food have decreased by 28% from December 2009 to December 2015, but the demand for food parcels has skyrocketed. Housing New...
In our first article we looked at the significant upgrade programme that Wellington City Council have entered into for their housing stock. You can find this article here. Our second article looks at the current trends happening across the country by looking at the...
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...
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).
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).
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.
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.
The Salvation Army's 10th annual 'state of the nation' report says youth offending and teen pregnancy have more than halved, jobs and real wages are rising, alcohol consumption and drink-driving are falling, and welfare rolls are the lowest since 2007. But it says homelessness "unseen in more than a generation", persistent child poverty and a record imprisonment rate point to the country "heading off the track".
9000+ homes provided by the community housing sector
We are excited to announce that in the 3rd quarter of 2016 we received information on 9,097 homes provided by the community housing sector. After subtracting out the Tamaki and Christchurch City portfolios, the total is 4,101 which exceeds the previous assessment of 3,681 homes in the 2014 Centre for Research, Evaluation and Social Assessment (CRESA) report.
