CHA welcomes fast-tracking of funding for emergency housing

CHA, which represents community housing providers throughout New Zealand, is responding to the Government’s quick delivery of funding to respond to growing needs for emergency housing. The process allows for a fast-track approval of $1.9 million to support 17 current...

​Labour’s plan to tackle housing crisis

Labour’s plan has three main elements: • An Affordable Housing Authority that will cut through red tape to deliver large-scale master-planned communities • 100,000 new affordable homes for first home buyers, with 50% in Auckland • A tax on speculators by extending the...
Massey University Housing Affordability report June 2016

Massey University Housing Affordability report June 2016

The NZ median house price in May last year was $460,000 and even though a year later this increased by $46,000, actual affordability improved by 6%. The region that shows a noteworthy annual and quarterly decline in affordability is Central Otago Lakes (19.6% and...

21 July professional development events

21 July 2-5pm – Community Housing Aotearoa event Best Practice Guide to Accreditation This participatory workshop will present the updated Best Practice Standards setting the requirements for accreditation under the Community Housing Accreditation Programme...

Another special housing area for Queenstown

“This SHA is spread across 51 hectares of greenfield land on Ladies Mile in Queenstown. The proposed development includes a retirement village comprising independent villas, serviced apartments and staff accommodation units, plus a 72-bed rest-home care facility. “The...
Massey University Housing Affordability report June 2016

House price index show a surge in investor activity

The full set of QV House Price Index statistics for all New Zealand for June can be downloaded by clicking this link: QV House Price Index (HPI) for June 2016. QV National Spokesperson Andrea Rush said, “Nationwide values are now rising at the fastest rate since 2004,...

Build it… but can they come in?

Build it… but can they come in? There are now numerous schemes underway to address the apparent ‘housing crisis’ including new infrastructure funding, social housing projects, emergency housing developments, special housing areas, reviews on...