A housing plan for New Zealand

A housing plan for New Zealand By James Goodhue | Guest writer September 9, 2017 (The original article on the Spinoff here) How does New Zealand get out of the housing hole it’s bought and sold itself into? Property and construction professional James Goodhue has a...
Submission on MBIE fire safety draft design guide

Submission on MBIE fire safety draft design guide

CHA agrees the need to develop a reasonable alternate solution to the requirements of the Acceptable Solution C/AS3 which came into effect in July 2014. We are one of the stakeholders who has worked with MBIE over the past three years to develop the Draft Design...

Dwell Housing and Ark Trust work together

Dwell Housing Trust Chief Executive Alison Cadman, and Wadestown Ark Trust’s Dr Brian Ensor celebrate Dwell’s acquisition of five church homes in Wadestown, Wellington. Ownership of five homes built in the early 1980s by the Wadestown Ark Trust was transferred in late...

Youth social housing facility for Dunedin

Last week the Methodist Mission and Minister for Social Housing Amy Adams announced a transitional youth housing facility would open in the city in January. Mrs Adams was in Dunedin on an election campaign visit. The Government would provide about $700,000 over the...
Report from Auckland Housing Summit

Report from Auckland Housing Summit

A wide range of innovative concepts were presented in the report but it was clear that all sectors identified the need for a comprehensive approach and a plan with targets and accountabilities. Better quality data, clear benchmarking and reporting shared amongst...

How we grow from 10’s of homes to 100’s or 1,000’s

The National Affordable Housing Consortium in Australia has more than one vehicle. They have a research development company, a property management company, a shared equity enterprise and a company for new business. Mike Myers says that moving from simple delivery...

Housing First funding extended to regions

Minister of Social Housing announced the expansion of Housing First for up to 500 more high need homeless people into permanent housing. “Housing First is delivering results in Auckland and Hamilton. We want more people across New Zealand who are sleeping rough to be...

Concern over reduced HNZC stock

In this Stuff news piece Phil Twyford said there was room for charities to provide social housing, it was up to the government to increase its stock to meet demands.VIRGINIA FALLON/STUFF Porirua state houses were advertised for sale in September 2016 before they were...