Council proposes partnership on new social housing site

Site 2 of the former Arlington Apartments in Mount Cook was re-named Te Māra at a dawn blessing on Monday. The units are a mix of one, two, three and four bedrooms, and include a community room on the site. Te Māra offers 160 bedrooms and the potential to house up to...

QLCHT Explores Affordable Housing Option in Arrowtown

The Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust (QLCHT or the Trust) has approached QLDC to conduct Geotech exploration of Council-owned land at Jopp Street, Arrowtown. While the Council has made no decision at this time about the use of this land, it has agreed to allow...

Housing NZ to right meth testing wrong

“Housing NZ acknowledges that around 800 tenants suffered by either losing their tenancies, losing their possessions, being suspended from the public housing waiting list, negative effects on their credit ratings or, in the worst cases, being made homeless. “Housing...

​ Fletcher invests tens of millions on prefab housing factory

The plant will initially be capable of pre-building some 500 homes a year, with capacity to grow output quickly to 1,000 homes annually, Fletcher Living chief executive Steve Evans told BusinessDesk. KiwiBuild aims to build 100,000 affordable homes during the next...

New Wellington social housing site completed

The units – ranging between one and four bedrooms – occupy part of the former Arlington Apartments site in Mount Cook, the Council’s largest social housing site. Mayor Justin Lester joined representatives of local iwi, Taranaki Whānui ki te Upoko o te Ika, in a...

Te Puea Memoria Marae To Host Hui For Urban Homelessness

For the past year, the research team has been working with the Marae to co-develop the Te Manaaki o te Marae research programme. Key to the research is to better understand why their Manaaki Tāngata E Rua transitional housing programme is so successful at supporting...

More residential land freed up in Havelock North

The rezoning paves the way for four new neighbourhoods with a variety of section sizes to meet the needs of all age groups and life stages, accompanied by significant reserve spaces. Since 1993, the Iona area of Havelock North had been identified for residential...