Housing pressures require urgent action in face of ongoing growth
Rotorua is growing for the first time in more than a decade and that growth has created a housing shortage – we are under pressure. Almost daily we hear about the urgent need for more homes, calls for Council to do something about it and accusations we’re not doing...Insight: Full House – Homelessness & Big Families
Maria is exhausted. The solo-mother to seven children under 17 years-old has been searching for somewhere to call home for almost a year. Wearing a faded blue T-shirt and brown floral lavalava, she cups her hands in her lap and speaks softly about the difficulties she...Landlord fined for non-compliant gas supply
Lina Liu, the landlord of two boarding houses, was taken to the Tenancy Tribunal by MBIE’s Tenancy Compliance and Investigations Team (TCIT) for failing to meet her responsibilities under the Residential Tenancies Act (RTA). “Following complaints of a gas leak at one...Medium Density Housing Summit to respond to New Zealand’s ranking as least affordable for housing in OECD
The Summit will take place against a backdrop of competing priorities for New Zealand land use that are disrupting the balance between social, economic and environmental needs. It comes at a time when a confluence of factors are straining the nation’s residential...CHA says government needs community input to fix housing
Chief Executive Scott Figenshow today endorsed the United Nation’s report into New Zealand’s progress on housing, which backs a call for a human rights based national housing strategy. Such a strategy would require housing to be affordable, habitable, accessible and...Renters getting raw deal from property managers
Consumer NZ head of research Jessica Wilson said tenants who dealt with a property manager were much more likely to report their home lacked adequate heating and had persistent mould. “Compared with private landlords, property managers were also more likely to delay...UN supports call for a human rights based housing strategy
This support was issued by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which recently reviewed New Zealand’s progress in areas including housing, health and education and released its concluding observations. A human rights based strategy requires...
3 April 2018 newsletter
Newsletter 3 April 2018 final.pdf