Community Housing Aotearoa work with Construction Industry Council

Nov 21, 2017 | News

CHA is pleased to be a member of the Construction Industry Council (CIC) as it aligns our work supporting community housing providers to link with the development and building sector. We are heartened by the depth and extent of work the CIC and its members are doing...

New research on property investment

Nov 20, 2017 | News

The Herald interviewed Dr Michael Rehm, a senior lecturer in property at the University of Auckland Business School, who says preliminary PhD research by one of his students is revealing how property speculation has fuelled high prices and the Auckland housing crisis....

​Number of Rentals Halve Nationwide

Nov 17, 2017 | News

Head of Trade Me Property Nigel Jeffries said demand for rental properties was strong in October with the average rental receiving 28 per cent more enquiries within the first week of being listed than a year ago. “Properties are getting snapped up fast as demand...

​Housing crisis spreads through-out the country

Nov 17, 2017 | News

The Herald reported that in Whanganui the Salvation Army have a contract with the Ministry of Social Development that covers seven houses to accommodate people in need for 12 to 24 weeks. “At the end of that time, we often struggle to find affordable housing for...

Is pre-fabrication the answer?

Nov 16, 2017 | News

Photo/ ANNA PRICE Andrew Booker, Housing NZ general manager of business innovation and development, expects prefabrication and off-site manufacturing to be over 50 per cent of the houses built in the next two to three years. In this Stuff article Pamela Bell of Prefab...

Indigneous co-housing development for Flaxmere

Nov 16, 2017 | News

Reported by Maori Television. “What’s different about this to a social housing project is this is about housing development and moving a whanau from out of those social housing situations into a home ownership situation,” says Mike Paku chairman of...

Minister welcomes call for modernising tenancy laws

Nov 15, 2017 | News

ActionStation and Renters United delivered the open letter which contains recommendations from the People’s Review of Renting. Action Station spokesperson Rick Zwaan says, “So there was just real heartbreaking stories of people on low incomes, Māori and...

Atareira Easy Access Housing

Nov 13, 2017 | Documents

Background The relationship between housing and recovery from mental illness has been recognised in New Zealand in a number of reports and discussion papers[i]. The Mental Health Commission (1999)[ii] describes this relationship as follows: “The provision of adequate,...

​Community housing sector welcomes new data on social housing

Nov 13, 2017 | News

In our press release about the latest Social Housing Quarterly report Scott Figenshow is quoted as saying: ”Yesterday’s release shows that the Ministry of Social Development is continuing progress toward more open and transparent information sharing,” says Scott...