CHA Newsletter 2 February, 2017

CHA Newsletter 2 February, 2017

Feb 2, 2017 | Newsletters

Also contained are notices of events, recent news items and other links of interest to the community housing sector in New Zealand. Read more here 2 february 2017.pdf

Kapiti Coast affordable housing shortage

Jan 30, 2017 | News

Real estate agents say the new motorway extension has created unprecedented demand in the area. The mayor, K Gurunathan, said he was called just after Christmas to help a young family of six living in a leaking garage – and he was hearing of other problems...
Research shows New Zealand housing still unaffordable

Research shows New Zealand housing still unaffordable

Jan 30, 2017 | Research

The Massey Affordability Index takes into account the cost of borrowing as well as house prices and wagelevels. Key points from the report can be seen on the left. The report shows that this December quarter (2016) has seen a decline in affordability driven mainly by...

Ending Youth Homelessness: A Human Rights Guide

Jan 24, 2017 | News

The guide, based on research, consultations, input from youth and the expertise of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, Ms. Leilani Farha, argues that all young people have a fundamental, legal right to be free of homelessness and to have access...

Home ownership rates continue to drop

Jan 11, 2017 | News

Herald On Sunday Photograph by Doug Sherring A record high of 73.8 per cent (848,916) was last recorded 26 years ago in 1991 – 10 per cent more than the latest figures. Renters in the same time period made up only about 23 per cent of the total. See the NZ...

People’s Project a success

Dec 20, 2016 | News

“We’ve done that by using the ‘Housing First’ approach, which is housing people first and then putting the support services around people that will assist them to deal with some of the issues that resulted in them coming onto the street in the...

Bill English’s new cabinet

Dec 19, 2016 | News

Read Scott’s comments to RNZ here. “One of the first questions would be ‘how are we going to build a consistent pipeline that delivers a thousand new units of social and affordable housing each year, every year, for the next decade?'” The Prime...
Research shows New Zealand housing still unaffordable

Child Poverty Monitor Technical report 2016

Dec 13, 2016 | Research

The first suite of indicators in this report comprises the five measures identified in the 2012 report to the New Zealand Children’s Commissioner from the Expert Advisory Group on solutions to child poverty: A fixed-line income measure, a moving-line income measure,...