Feb 4, 2019 | News
Over the last few months, we’ve shared lots of information to help employers around New Zealand get ready for payday filing. All employers need to be payday filing from 1 April 2019, but if you think you’re ready to start payday filing now, February is a great time to...
Feb 4, 2019 | News
REINZ would like to see a target put in place ahead of the next election in order to measure how the KiwiBuild programme is progressing. Bindi Norwell, Chief Executive at REINZ says: “With a significant housing shortfall in New Zealand, the KiwiBuild programme is an...
Feb 4, 2019 | News
“An integral part of any inclusive and successful regional economic development strategy lies with supporting Māori landowners to create new opportunities that will lift incomes and the wellbeing of our regions,” Jacinda Ardern said. “Access to capital remains a...
Feb 4, 2019 | Events
The Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) has today announced a series of community meetings in March and April 2019 about the review. Anyone interested in the review is welcome to attend the meetings, which will be held in 21 locations. Flyers about the meetings are...
Feb 4, 2019 | News
The eight-unit development includes two four-bedroom and six two-bedroom homes. It will house a mix of families and individuals. Cate Kearney, CE of Ōtautahi Community Housing Trust says the complex is a wonderful addition to the Opawa community. “We are so pleased...
Jan 31, 2019 | News
APNZL supports the view that government investment in public housing is best achieved through not-for-profit organisations putting people’s needs first. “The Government’s decision to allow private developers access to Community Housing supports is a misguided...
Jan 31, 2019 | News
Bird’s eye view of the area in red Taranaki Whānui Limited (the wholly owned commercial arm of Port Nicholson Block Settlement Trust) and the Government’s Land for Housing Programme (HUD) have entered into an MoU to collaborate and work together on the future of...
Jan 31, 2019 | News
Paul Majurey, of Marutūāhu descent, chairs the Waimahia and Puhinui Park community housing developments. This was brought together by the Tāmaki Collective of iwi, NZ Housing Foundation, CORT Community Housing and Te Tumu Kainga (the Māori Trustee). Importantly, the...
Jan 30, 2019 | News
This is the opinion of Warwick Quinn, chief executive of New Zealand’s largest construction trade training organisation, BCITO. Quinn says the current review of the New Zealand Qualifications Framework – NZQF – needs to urgently address the issue of...
Jan 30, 2019 | News
The KiwiBuild initiative was not the Labour Party’s only response to the affordability crisis, or perhaps the most important. Tax proposals, tenancy laws, banning foreign buyers, state house building and infrastructure bonds were all just as important. But...