Welcome to our latest newsletter. We cover the latest staff news, including the arrival of our new CEO Paul Gilberd, give the latest CHA Conference update, plus highlight legislation changes. Community Housing Aotearoa newsletter – January 25, 2023
Welcome to our latest newsletter. We cover the latest staff news, we seek feedback on our Conference topics, plus highlight legislation changes and a number of community and partner events. Community Housing Aotearoa newsletter – December 12, 2022
Welcome to our latest newsletter. We cover the latest staff news, we seek feedback on our Conference topics, outline what submissions are currently being prepared, plus highlight a number of community and partner events. Community Housing Aotearoa newsletter November...
Welcome to our latest newsletter. We cover the latest staff news, Auckland's CHP network latest event, we seek feedback on our Conference topics, outline what submissions are currently being prepared, plus highlight a number of community and partner events. Community...
Welcome to our latest newsletter. We cover the release of our Annual Report and our AGM, we seek feedback on our Conference topics, outline what submissions are currently being prepared, summarise the VUW Interns' work to produce CHRA Registration and Methamphetamine...
Update on progress of the bill: On Wednesday morning Marianne from Action station went to Parliament to present in person Action Stations crowd-sourced submission on the proposed changes to charities law. The Chair of the Select Committee, Ruth Dyson, asked her to...
CHA have two areas of concern in the bill, these relate to: 1. changes to the number of members a society must have to register an incorporated society 2. the number of days to appeal decisions to the High Court. You can read the submission here: CHA submission Inc...
CHA strongly support revision to the bill so that it activates a performance-based standard, for example, requiring properties to be able to achieve the World Health Organisation recommended interior temperature of 18C year-around (and 21C in certain circumstances)....
Their proposalis to partner with a third party social housing provider to form a new CHP that is separate to the council but that the council have a minority interest in. It appears that they are pursuing a similar path to Christchurch City Council which has stated...
The particular scope relates to the provision of development capacity in local authority plans to address both housing and business needs.This consultation document explains: Submissions close at 5.00pm on Friday 15 July 2016. Go here to see the plan. Here is some of...
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Reported by Stuff, the Human Rights Commission report that the private rental market is forcing low-income Kiwis to move too often.In their briefing to incoming Justice Minister Andrew Little the Human Rights Commission (HRC) point to housing as a serious human rights...
Four areas were identified as key for the sector to focus on over the next 100 days. Participants felt strongly that an offer from the community housing sector be made to help activate KiwiBuild. The four areas are: 1)Central purchasing / procurement at...
Read the report here: Housing-Quarterly-Report-Sep2017.pdf Key facts - September overview ·For the September quarter MSD has spent $563 million on housing support. This year MSD will spend around $2.3 billion on providing New Zealanders with housing support ranging...
We heard from Alan Johnson, Salvation Army Social Policy and Research Unit, on the Taking Stock report he produced earlier in the year, with discussion facilitated by Kay Saville-Smith of CRESA. Consensus was reached on the goal and the settings necessary to build the...
DEBBIE JAMIESON/STUFF Members of the Queenstown Lakes Mayoral Housing Affordability Taskforce presenting their recommendations: chairman John MacDonald, Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust executive officer Julie Scott, Queenstown Lakes District Mayor Jim Boult,...
The survey framework was developed by CHA, Ministry of Social Development (MSD) and CRESA and will be updated quarterly on this website so we can see the change in the number of homes provided by the sector. MSD will incorporate the results to inform its purchasing...
Research into collective urban housing by Mark Southcombe, senior lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington’s School of Architecture, suggests that there are proven international solutions which can help address the housing affordability crisis we are currently...
These responses yielded some exciting results. The 20 community housing organisations who responded provided information on 2,225 homes across New Zealand with an occupancy rate of 98%. We observed great diversity in the types of housing being provided by the sector:...
Housing costs now take a greater proportion of household income especially for low-income households: up from 14% in the late 1980s to 20% in 2015 overall for under 65s[1] up from 29% to 54% on average for the bottom quintile, and 19% to 32% for Q2. Growing housing...
The highest number on record was in the June 1974 year, when 13 new homes were consented for every thousand residents (compared with an average of nine for the decade). In the year ended June 2016, the regions that consented the most new homes per thousand residents...
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Community Housing Aotearoa submission on the Urban Development Bill, Key Submission Points, About Us, Areas where the Bill needs more work, Recommended Amendments to the Bill, Summary.
Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission Bill 11 December 2019
Community Housing Aotearoa (CHA) is the peak body for the community housing sector that provides emergency, transitional, social and affordable housing as well as delivering the Housing First programme throughout New Zealand. We thank you for the opportunity to provide comment on the Bill.
Julia Bergman, Acting Deputy Chief Executive of Public Housing Supply, Ministry of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), released these new reports and factsheets:
The Ministry of Social Development commissioned the Study in 2016 to develop a baseline understanding of the services emergency housing providers deliver, and the characteristics and circumstances of the recipients of these services.