Everybody needs good neighbours

Tenants have registered about 50 Neighbours Day events ranging from such things as movie nights to street parties, barbecues, gardening activities, clean ups, sharing a cup of tea and pot luck meals. Community Development Manager Karen Allen says Housing New Zealand...

Rhodes Abbeyfield 14-studio home opens

A new 14-studio Abbeyfield house providing affordable rental accommodation for older people was formally opened in Christchurch at the weekend. The Rhodes Abbeyfield house in Wigram was developed in partnership by Abbeyfield New Zealand and Christchurch’s Rhodes...

Decision-making time for homelessness in Lower Hutt

Several options, one of which will become part of a plan to prevent vulnerable families becoming homeless and improve access to housing for those who are homeless, will be discussed at an extraordinary Policy and Regulatory Committee meeting on Monday 25 March. As...

About the New Zealand Housing Foundation by Paul Gilberd

This article was originally published in The Property Lawyer (Vol 19-3). The Property Lawyer is a member publication of the Property Law Section of the New Zealand Law Society. The Property Law Section has given permission for this article to be republished. Property...

Peter Jeffries: Funding change has hurt non-profit housing

In 2016, we were the third largest developer of public housing in Auckland after Housing NZ and the Tamaki Regeneration Company. By the end of this year, we will have added over 150 homes to our portfolio. In 2017 we responded to a Government request for forecast...

New community housing for Taumarunui celebrated

Funding for the project has come from a $2.1m Te Puni Kokiri investment into the Whanau and Community Development Investment programme for Taumarunui and Te Kuiti. This funding will be used by the Taumarunui Community Kokiri Trust to help to repair existing homes and...

Gov backing mooted for big Wellington public housing project

Subject to public consultation, Housing New Zealand will develop between 230 and 300 homes on the site in Mt Cook, which will include up to 40 supported-living units for Wellington’s most vulnerable homeless people. The proposal will be on the agenda for next week’s...

Costs outweigh benefits for Special Housing Area extension

The HASHAA legislation was established in 2013 as an interim measure until wider reforms to improve housing affordability took effect. It is set to expire on 16 September. Phil Twyford said that although the law had increased housing supply in some areas, it had not...

Scrapping SHAs hamstrings housing

SHAs were enabled as a means of bypassing unnecessary red tape in the planning system that has for decades clogged up the market, to deliver affordable housing that New Zealand’s communities desperately need. While far from a perfect solution to New Zealand’s moribund...

​Community Housing Providers’ home building flatlines

Housing numbers for the not-for-profit community housing sector in 2018 show little if any increase over those in 2017. Figurers from Auckland housing network members show a net increase of 57 new housing places including an increase of only 47 new builds. “The...