Only one in four of Government’s new public housing places in Auckland are new builds
That is worrying community housing organisations who say that huge increases in permanent, long-term public housing are needed to tackle rapid growth in the number of people urgently seeking a home. Quarterly housing data released last month showed that the waiting...Could the language of the market be keeping us from solving the housing puzzle?
To ensure that public policies that get proposed or implemented to create a new housing system get discussed properly in the public, we need a different language to talk about why good housing matters for everyone. In New Zealand our homes are our castles. A place of...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...CoHousing Hui Summary: Videos, Slides and More
Maybe you have some colleagues who weren’t able to attend, or there was a sliver of wisdom you can’t quite recall. Whatever the situation, we’ve got it covered 🙂 VIDEOS We managed to record some great footage from the day and although we didn’t...KiwiBuild comes to Northland – 10 homes in Kotātā Heights
The KiwiBuild homes are a combination of two and three bedroom brick, standalone homes with internal access garages, elevated and sunny outlooks, and semi-rural and harbour views. Kotātā Heights is a new development within walking distance of Whangarei’s city centre....