CHA has now had the time to review the information provided in MSD's first Social Housing Purchasing Intentions document released on 15 April and have identified key points of interest - please provide feedback.
CHA has submitted a letter outlining sector concerns on the Taxation (Annual Rates for 2015-16, Research and Development, and Remedial Matters) Bill 2015.
AHURI research paper on stock tranfers in Australia
The Australasian Housing and Urban Research Institute has recently released a final report on ‘Public housing stock transfers in Australia: past, present and prospective’.
The Centre for Research, Evaluation and Social Assessment (CRESA) was recently awarded a research grant from BRANZ to investigate procurement for community housing.
The Ministry of Social Development has just begun a review of the funding arrangements for emergency housing and is seeking input through an online survey from emergency housing providers and other interested groups (such as organisations who provide services to people in emergency housing) to get a better understanding of the pressures facing the emergency housing sector.
As a member of MSD’s Housing Assistance Reform Feedback Group, CHA was asked what type of information members would like to see in the April release of its Purchasing Intentions.
Social Services Committee 2013/14 annual review of Housing New Zealand Corporation
AHI has extended the due date to submit your award nominations to next Friday 13 March 2015. As of yesterday the number of award nomination’s that we have received so far for NZ is only 7 in total, across the 8 categories below.