Letting fees shown the door from today

“Our Government is making life better for renters. Now tenants won’t have to worry about letting fees during the busy summer rental season when so many are looking for new homes. “This will make a real difference to struggling families. There are significant costs...

$5 million funding for City Mission one step closer

The Mayor’s Annual Budget proposal includes the following key items: • Record capital investment of over $2.5 billion, including the largest ever transport investment of $1.2 billion • Progressing the water quality improvement programme to clean up our beaches and...

​Community housing project at former Wesleyhaven Village

Wesley Community Action is delighted to announce that it has signed an agreement with Masterton prefabricated home provider EasyBuild to build 25 affordable rental homes at the former Wesleyhaven Village in Naenae. The homes will be made available to applicants on the...

Proper app launches free background check feature

The free screening tool is connected to three national databases with over ten years of records. After gaining the tenant’s approval, owners only need to input the tenant’s full name, date of birth, email address, and mobile number to conduct a search. Once these...

​Communities Call for Action

When asked what they would say if they could talk to the Prime Minister about their community, people in six communities raised serious concerns about drugs, housing, lack of mental health services and economic problems that were holding back their neighbourhoods. The...

Q+A: Housing Minister Phil Twyford interviewed by Corin Dann

Phil Twyford told the Q+A programme that while he knows that CEO Stephen Barclay is not at work, he won’t comment on the issue further than that. He says it’s a matter relating to an individual public servant and it wouldn’t be right for him as the Minister to comment...

Why this year’s Christmas is different for City Mission

The Mission is currently meeting the needs of homeless and vulnerable Aucklanders out of our temporary home in Union St in the CBD while construction work gets under way for HomeGround, our transformational new facility at our Hobson Street site. Auckland City...

Completed Waimahia housing development celebrated

“This $112 million Waimahia housing development is a wonderful success story and a huge credit to the community housing sector and iwi partners. It has delivered 295 genuinely affordable homes for modest and lower income families in a beautiful new coastal...

​Chatbot to help renters released today

“Rentbot” makes information about tenancy law more accessible to the over 2.9 million people in New Zealand who use Facebook. Rentbot is a free digital assistant to answer questions about renting, and the rights and responsibilities of tenants and landlords. It can be...