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 Tookey said...
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 manager, and...
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...
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...
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,...
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Te Matapihi he Tirohanga mo te Iwi Trust is the peak sector body for the Māori housing sector. Earlier this year they signed a funding agreement with Te Puni Kōkiri enabling the Trust to expand its role in supporting He Whare Ahuru, the Māori Housing Network and to...
Housing costs now take a greater proportion of household income especially for low-income households: up from 14% in the late 1980s to 20% in 2015 overall for under 65s[1] up from 29% to 54% on average for the bottom quintile, and 19% to 32% for Q2. Growing housing...
Data from the Ministry of Social Development obtained by the Labour Party shows in the three months to June, it took an average of 217 days to rehouse people living in their cars. That’s up from 108 days at the end of 2015. It took 157 days to rehouse people...
Submissions will initially be heard by the inquiry at four locations: Te Puea Marae in Auckland, Tauranga, Wellington and Christchurch between the end of August and early September. Read more about the process here. Read the two-parts of the CHA and He Kainga Oranga...
The funding is in addition to the $120.1 million announced in Budget 2016 for new social housing places in Auckland. “Our Government is taking the housing issue seriously and is committed to increasing supply through community housing providers. Those houses are...
The Community Housing Regulatory Authority has released a series of guidance notes designed to provide more information on differentaspects of the regulatory process. The guidance notes to date cover: Class I Social Landlord: What sets you apart? Separation of...
This report by Radio New Zealand looks at what’s going on in Canterbury housing now. It shows some of the solutions that community housing providers, New Zealand Housing Foundation and the Methodist Mission, and others are offering. See more here:
She commented: “One of the first things I did when I took on the Social Housing portfolio at the start of last year was review the way we support homeless people, from the funding through to the challenges that prevent people from staying housed. This review...
“Begging is not a lifestyle choice, neither is being homeless. In a perfect world, no one would be poor, be the victim of sexual or domestic abuse or have a mental illness. But we live in the real world and there are vulnerable people in Wellington who need and...