Government Rental Homes Standards: Green Building Council

“Everyone who wants to fix this, and help make our homes healthy, warm and dry places to thrive in, to build lifelong happy memories in, will welcome this announcement as a much needed shift towards a better, kinder New Zealand. “But today’s announcement is not quite...

Healthy Homes Standards welcomed

Not-for-profit Community Housing Providers have been reinvesting surpluses into maintaining their stock of affordable homes. “The new standards simply bring the rest of the rental stock up to the standard that our sector has been working towards,” says CHA CEO Scott...

Portable cabins a lifesaver while housing unaffordable

Aishai Bates-Hill in front of the cabin she has come to call home. Photo: RNZ / Brooke Jenner On a spacious corner section in the south Auckland suburb of Manurewa, Aishai Bates-Hill has found a place to call home at the back of her parents’ property. The...

​Standards to make homes warm and dry released

The standards set minimum requirements for heating, insulation, ventilation, moisture and drainage, and draught stopping in residential rental properties. They reflect feedback from a wide range of public health experts, stakeholders including landlords, tenants and...

REINZ questions whether CGT will improve long-term costs

Bindi Norwell, Chief Executive at REINZ says: “In the short-term there may be some initial relief in house price affordability as investors look to sell their property to avoid paying CGT. This may create opportunities for first home buyers. “However, in the long term...

The Salvation Army Wheels Out First Ethical Shopping Truck

In a bid to curb unethical lending in our most vulnerable areas, The Salvation Army will launch a new shopping truck in South Auckland on Tuesday 19th February. The Good Shop is a roving truck offering vulnerable consumers access to honest financial advice and quality...

Mike Greer to build over 100 KiwiBuild homes

Haupai outside The agreement for 104 homes includes the cheapest KiwiBuild announced so far – 11 two-bedroom standalone homes in Kaiapoi for $360,000. Other homes will be built in Huapai, Whenuapai, Pukekohe, Kaiapoi, Rolleston, Pegasus, Woodend, Rangiora, Halswell,...

​Most new public housing places in a decade

The latest figures from the December 2018 Public Housing Quarterly Report shows that the Government is pulling out all the stops to house those in need, Phil Twyford said. “Our Government has been clear that the best way to tackle the housing crisis is to build more...

Waiting list for public housing emboldens social support

“More and more of our people are unable to put a roof over their head, showing we urgently need more state and public housing. “We are seeing the direct consequences of successive Governments not putting the wellbeing of New Zealanders first. The Greens are working...