Crown building project announced for Auckland

May 17, 2017 | News

Under the umbrella of their Crown Building Project, the Government will take down 8300 old HNZC homes in Auckland and replace them with 34,000 new purpose-built homes. Of this number 13,540 will be new social housing and 20,600 will be affordable and market homes.This...

Are the wrong kind of houses being built in Auckland?

May 16, 2017 | News

John Tookey, the head of Auckland University of Technology’s (AUT) built environment department, said the free market was not building the kind of homes the city needed. In a report looking at Auckland’s housing market from a construction perspective, Prof...

Emergency housing providers ionstructed not to talk to media

May 15, 2017 | News

Some providers received a directive from the ministry telling them not to talk to media without first talking to it, they told Checkpoint last week. According to Radio NZ, an email,with the subject ‘Media Protocol’, was sent by a regional contracts...

Pre-election housing policies

May 15, 2017 | News

Labour party congress discusses housing policy Sunday, 14 May 2017 1:49 pm | New Zealand Labour Party Press Release the Labour party wants to end tax breaks for speculators and invest in warm, healthy homes Labour will shut down tax breaks for speculators and use the...
New Housing Affordability Measure welcomed

New Housing Affordability Measure welcomed

May 11, 2017 | Research

CHA is pleased to see the release of the new Housing Affordability Measure, a tier one official statistic. The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s (MBIE) new measure will allow the market to be monitored at a more detailed level and has been developed...

What budget 2017 has in store

May 9, 2017 | News

Bill English announced 10 new targets for Government to achieve and one of them is a target will be to achieve a 20 per cent reduction in the time it takes to house priority clients on the social housing register. Budget 2017 will include a $321 million Social...

Blenheim faces housing issues

May 9, 2017 | News

Peter McGhee has been living in a motel while state houses in Blenheim are boarded up More was spent on the Emergency Housing Special Needs Grants in this region than anywhere else in the South Island in the December quarter, when 340 grants were issued. In 2012,...
New Housing Affordability Measure welcomed

Rental homes in poorer condition than owner occupied homes

Apr 27, 2017 | Research

Of the more than 500 houses assessed in the BRANZ Housing Condition Survey, nearly a third of rentals felt damp, three times as many as the owner-occupied properties. Assessors rated rental properties twice as likely to be ‘poorly maintained’. The survey,...

New social housing quarterly report out

Apr 26, 2017 | News

The report shows that: ·$550 million total housing support provided in the March 2017 quarter (89 days) ·Helped 1800 households into homes ·4865 people on the housing register – up 2 per cent on last quarter ·9218 emergency housing Special Needs Grants paid to 2616...