CHA has written to Finance Minister English, Housing Minister Smith and Revenue Minister McClay seeking action to resolve the uncertainty facing the sector. We've prepared a paper that calls for either a review of the Charities Act, or setting the regulations for the new CHE tax exemption using the upper income limits as in the Welcome Home Loan and the recent announcements of the expansion of the Homestart programme. It only makes sense to align these policies together. Let us know if you have any comments.
Decent housing a priority to support low income families
In a paper just published by the Journal of International Union for Housing Finance, Shamubeel Eaqub says there is no easy fix to the current over-valued housing market and long-term and complementary policy changes are needed.
This Bill proposes comprehensive reforms to the Health and Safety regulatory environment in New Zealand. The Bill seeks to replace the Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992 and the Machinery Act 1950.
AFFORDABLE PLANNED HOUSING: A RESIDENTS’ PERSPECTIVE
Many of you will have attended the briefings on the changes to social housing coming into effect on 14 April 2014. Feedback from these is that there was a broad cross-section of community organisations there keen to share their concerns about how the new Social Allocation System will work.