New social housing model launched

Mar 27, 2017 | News

“This is the first regional, large-scale transfer of Government-owned social houses to a community housing provider,” says Social Housing Minister Amy Adams. “They are a major plank of our plan to improve social housing.” “While the ownership of these social houses in...

Housing First launched in Auckland

Mar 27, 2017 | News

Social Housing Minister Amy Adams and Auckland Mayor Phil Goff have launched Housing First Auckland, which aims to house 472 homeless Aucklanders and provide wrap-around services to address the causes of their homelessness. “We don’t want to see anyone living on the...

Nine ways to fix New Zealand’s broken rental market

Mar 27, 2017 | Uncategorised

As part of the Spinoff’s rent week series here’s the latest article on private rental housing and the nine things Dr Elinor Chisholm says we can do to help fix these problems. 1. Make renting more secure We need to make sure the Residential Tenancy Act supports...

New emergency housing for Hutt Valley

Mar 23, 2017 | News

The Koraunui Marae Trust has been contracted to provide housing and support services to the women and children who will stay in a new six-bedroom, three-bathroom house that is funded through the government’s new emergency housing initiative. Trustee Henrietta...

Housing First Auckland pilot officially opened today

Mar 23, 2017 | Uncategorised

The Housing First Auckland pilot is already up and running but is being officially launched today by Social Housing Minister Amy Adams and Auckland Mayor Phil Goff. It aims to help 472 chronically homeless people find accommodation over two years. The pilot focuses on...

Sale of Tamaki Housing Association

Mar 21, 2017 | News

Listen to Scott Figenshow comment on Morning report. Here’s the media post on this. Social housing project on market after just a year The part-government-owned Tamaki Redevelopment Company is selling its tenancy arm, Tamaki Housing Association, which manages nearly...

Landlord convictions made under new law

Mar 21, 2017 | News

“This prosecution is significant in that it is the first time the Government has pursued a landlord for failing to provide a warm, dry, safe home. Last year’s tenancy reforms enabled the ministry to directly prosecute landlords rather than relying on tenants to take...

Renting in New Zealand – Spinoff looks at what its like

Mar 21, 2017 | News

A couple of weeks ago Arthur Grimes, the former chair of the Reserve Bank, was interviewed on Nine to Noon by Kathryn Ryan. The occasion was a report by his research lab Motu, which had discovered a 1:6 cost:benefit ratio for the government’s insulation subsidy...