Member feedback encouraged

Member feedback encouraged

Jul 20, 2015 | Submissions

The Auckland Community Housing Providers’ Network (ACHPN) and CHA would like to get your feedback on this letter written by Miles Hennighan of CORT Community Housing, following a recent ACHPN meeting. We would value your thoughts on what you think about...

Patrick Gower interviews Nick Smith

Jul 18, 2015 | News

The Housing Minister insists foreign buyers are “not having a significant effect” on the Auckland housing market and rejects Labour’s claims offshore Chinese buyers could be buying as much as 30 % of houses.See more commentary here.
Roy Morgan Research poll

Roy Morgan Research poll

Jul 17, 2015 | Research

The poll conducted on 17 July shows National down 6.5% in the opinion polls and Labour up 6%. According to the poll: “A slowing New Zealand economy (New Zealand’s GDP growth slowed to 0.2% in the March Quarter 2015 – the slowest New Zealand growth in two years) is...

Housing crisis

Jul 16, 2015 | News

Releasing land and building thousands of new homes won’t solve Auckland’s housing crisis.Laurence Murphy, Professor of Property at the University of Auckland Business School, says such a move will only result in the development sector doing what it has always done...

Increase in number of people renting

Jul 16, 2015 | News

The number of people in their early 30s who own their own home has dropped from half in 2001 to about a third. Read this Radio New Zealand Insight Programme article.

Rental properties made warmer

Jul 13, 2015 | News

The Residential Tenancies Act is to be strengthened with new requirements for insulation, smoke alarms, better enforcement and faster resolution of abandoned tenancies but no warrant of fitness. Read article from the Dominion Post here.

Sticking plaster solution to a problem with charities legislation

Jul 6, 2015 | News

“We have met with Minister Bennett and MBIE officials and are confident they understood that the best solution was to amend the Charities Act as the place where the certainty should be confirmed. Why the rest of cabinet didn’t see it this way when they had...