Difficulty of finding affordable rental housing

Elderly woman outlines the plight of finding affordable rental housing on Auckland’s North Shore. Interview with Bays Community Trust and CORT Housing Trust http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/player/2596858

Response received from Hon Nick Smith

Following our meeting with Hon Nick Smith on 30 January 2014, we wrote to him on 4 March 2014 checking our understanding about the progress of specific aspects of the social housing reform programme including tax reform, stock transfers and the social housing fund....

Housing Continuum

CHA has been working with its members to develop an updated housing continuum – one that clearly illustrates the housing options and potential providers that need to be in place. It’s a continuum for us to start a conversation with more New Zealanders...

Wellington City Council wins architecture award

New Zealand Architecture Awards acknowledge the year’s best buildings, and this year, Wellington City Council has received an award for its Central Park Apartments, an existing social housing complex transformed by Novak + Middleton. “The strategy of fragmenting the...
Health and Safety Reform Bill

Health and Safety Reform Bill

CHA acknowledges that the purpose of this Bill is to ensure that New Zealand significantly improves work place health and safety conditions through a set of world class standards of protection for its citizens. CHA has concerns that the language of the Bill goes too...

Borrowing Alert

CHA urges you to speak with the commercial lending manager of your bank to understand how your organisation might be impacted. Under the proposed new reporting requirement to take effect on July 1, 2014, “If the bank has recourse to, or is aware of, more than five...