CHA-IMPACT conference 7-9 June 2017

Feb 16, 2017 | Events

Set in the inspiring venue of TE PAPA on Wellington’s waterfront, this year’s conference will create the pathway to turning the vision and goals of ‘Our Place’ into a reality. It will offer you the chance to take part in this dialogue and learn about innovation from...
Newsletter 16 February 2017

Newsletter 16 February 2017

Feb 16, 2017 | Newsletters

Bella Paenga and her whanau bought their HNZ home in Tiki Tiki a year ago, “it’s a safe place to call home and not many homes come up for sale here,” Bella says. You’ll also find a link to the request for proposal of Horowhenua District Council housing...

Addressing issues of indigenous homelessness

Feb 16, 2017 | News

You will find these articles below: Pita Homeless men gardening..pdf Groot indigenous homelessness.pdf exploring indigenous peoples experiences.-main.pdf Brown turangawaewae.pdf AboriginalLiteratureReview.pdf

New Zealand short 60,000 homes

Feb 14, 2017 | News

Using their own metrics, Treasury estimate that the “cumulative shortfall” houses in Auckland was at between 30,000 and 35,000 in June of 2016. An ANZ figure in the same report suggests the national shortfall is as high as 60,000. That figure is estimated...

A look at the various political parties housing policies

Feb 13, 2017 | News

Nowhere is New Zealand’s increasing inequality as manifest as in house prices, which have reached ten times the median household income in Auckland, according to the latest Demographia survey. It’s author Hugh Pavletich, who damns high property prices as a...
Annual rent rises hit low-spending households

Annual rent rises hit low-spending households

Feb 13, 2017 | Research

“Higher costs for rent, and cigarettes and tobacco, had a greater effect on lower-spending households,” consumer prices manager Matt Haigh said, “Rent was up 2 percent this year, with the largest increases being observed in Auckland.” Living...
Annual rent rises hit low-spending households

Cold homes harm NZ youth health and schooling

Feb 13, 2017 | Research

The article in the journal Social Science and Medicine – Population Health by Dr Kimberley O’Sullivan at He Kainga Oranga/Housing and Health Research Programme was co-authored by researchers from the University of Otago and more unusually, young researchers from...