Jan 22, 2019 | News
The Government recently established the new Construction and Infrastructure Skill Shortage List (CISSL) to address the ongoing problem of short supply of construction workers in New Zealand. But the new list scheme is likely to be too rigid to be effective, and will...
Jan 22, 2019 | News
Stephen Barclay, head of the KiwiBuild unit Photo: RNZ / Patrick O’Meara In a statement issued on his behalf, it was announced that he would step down from today. Housing Minister Phil Twyford’s office said he would not be commenting on Mr Barclay’s...
Jan 22, 2019 | News
The Labour-led government risks electoral defeat in 2020 unless it makes demonstrable progress on affordable housing this year, says the outspoken author of an annual survey of global housing affordability. Hugh Pavletich, the Christchurch-based co-author of the...
Jan 22, 2019 | News
The 15th annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Study compared house prices to incomes in New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Ireland, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States and found Tauranga had again out-stripped Auckland...
Jan 15, 2019 | Events
Read the flyer for the WHO International Housing and Health Guidelines: Southern Hemisphere Launch. We are privileged to host the southern hemisphere launch of the guidelines, which bring together the latest evidence to provide recommendations to reduce the health...
Jan 15, 2019 | Events
This conference will be co-Presented by Community Housing Aotearoa (CHA) and the Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities National Science Challenge (BBHTC). Save the date and more information will be through soon.
Jan 14, 2019 | News
Any landlords who still don’t comply after paying the penalty, may face further action according to MBIE. Bindi Norwell, Chief Executive at REINZ says: “From 1 July 2019 ceiling and underfloor insulation will be compulsory in all rental homes across New Zealand. That...
Jan 14, 2019 | News
Two thousand guests are expected at Spark Arena on Christmas day for the annual City Mission lunch. The Mission team’s been planning the event for months, hundreds of volunteer hours have already been racked up with a further 500 volunteers set to help host on the...
Jan 14, 2019 | News
COMMENT: What a scandal. Bloated material costs, bloated construction costs, dull designs, obstructive and inefficient consenting, obstructive financing, wrong-headed urban planning, neglected infrastructure, neglected trade training, fear of innovation, environmental...
Jan 14, 2019 | News
An Auckland company is selling tiny houses for weekly payments of $180 – cheaper than the average weekly cost of renting a room in Auckland. Would-be home owners locked out of the market due to high house prices can rent-to-buy a relocatable unit from Coastal Cabins,...
