Supporting Māori into home ownership
Te Tihi o Ruahine Whānau Ora Alliance based in Palmerston North is holding an information evening tonight about their home ownership trial that is part of a nationwide programme called Te Ara Mauwhare. “Te Ara Mauwhare is an opportunity to look at innovative...First Street Appeal for Wellington Night Shelter
This appeal is to help raise funds for running costs and ongoing refurbishment to update the accommodation facilities that over 300 men access every year. The Wellington Night Shelter provides both housing and support for men on their journey from experiencing...
The Emergency Housing Exploratory Study, January-February 2017
The Study describes the circumstances for emergency housing providers in the early days of the emergency housing funding model. Since the study, MSD and the new Ministry of Housing and Urban Development have implemented a number of changes to the emergency and...First families get payments by Christmas
The regulation changes were agreed by Cabinet last Monday, and became effective on Friday. The first payments were processed as soon as the regulation came into force. Phil Twyford said Housing NZ is fronting up and redressing the hardships caused by the meth debacle....Auckland home consents hit 13,000
A total of 13,078 new homes were consented in the region in the year ended October 2018 – up 25 percent from the year before, and four times as many as the low point in the August 2009 year. “Home permits in Auckland briefly reached a similar high level in the early...Queenstown’s Joan of Arc is battling for affordable housing
Not all heroes wear capes. Sometimes they walk among us and perform their magic without needing to transform into someone different. It’s the seemingly ordinary-looking jobs that can have a tremendous effect. Meet Julie Scott, the executive officer of the Queenstown...$5 million additional funding for City Mission proposed
The Mayor’s Annual Budget proposal also confirms the largest ever annual capital investment in transport infrastructure of $1.2 billion, continued investment in the water quality improvement programme and protection of kauri and holding average general rate rises to...Emotional start to homelessness debate
Social service agencies, a school principal and a mother who had recently been homeless described the dire emotional and physical toll that homelessness takes, especially on women and children who make up New Zealand’s largest category of homeless people. A Lower Hutt...