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Media release – damp housing stats highlight need for greater supply of good homes.
Damp homes.pdf
Update on Cross-party inquiry into homelessness
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.
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.
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.
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?
Spotlight on homelessness and emergency housing
Here is the article: Spotlight on homelessness and emergency housing that was published in the Australasian Housing Institutes publication HousingWORKS in June.
Proposed Charities Act could remove the right to appeal
Proposed amendments to the Charities Act, being considered right now by the Government Administration Select Committee, would remove the ability of charities to appeal any decisions of the Chief Executive of the Department of Internal Affairs.
Drawing the line – how many state houses do we need?
Alan Johnson, Social Policy Director at The Salvation Army in NZ, presented at an Australasian Housing Insititute event in Auckland on Thursday 21st July. Alan's presentation provided a critique of the Government’s stance that the overall numbers of state housing should reduce to 60,000 by 2017. He argued that the provision of state housing should be based on the type and extent of need and a clear understanding of the interventions required to address this need.
It’s renters versus the rest
The latest HRV State of Home Survey has found mould is prevalent in almost half of New Zealand’s rental homes and renters take more sick days than the national average. Some landlords are refusing to address tenants concerns about the cold, damp and mouldy state of their homes with 56% of property owners doing nothing when contacted about housing issues by tenants.
New Zealand housing and the United Nations sustainable development goals
The United Nations has identified 17 global goals for sustainable development to achieve transformational change throughout the world by 2030. These goals include ending poverty and hunger and the things we would want to see in a fair and equitable world. They also include 169 targets. So how does this affect New Zealand’s community housing sector?
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