Tamaki Housing Association manages nearly 2800 former Housing New Zealand homes in east Auckland. When it called for tenders to take over the tenancy management business earlier this year, 11 Australian and New Zealand housing providers pitched. Two Australian groups...
A development in Hobsonville: The Auckland Council's deal with the government means a percentage of large developments have to include affordable homes. Photo: RNZ / Rebekah Parsons-King The council has set up more than 150 Special Housing Areas (SHAs) with the...
A drawing of the housing to be expected at the Seddon St site in Naenae, Lower Hutt. Up to 330 new social, affordable and market homes will be built in the Lower Hutt suburbs of Naenae, Taita, and Waterloo, at a cost of about $9.5 million. HNZ plans to finish building...
The partnership has been formed to provide tenancy and asset management services associated with the council’s stock of 1,452* rental units for senior citizens, located in villages across South, North and West Auckland. On their first day of operations, Haumaru...
Social investment – which uses an actuarial approach to determine the long-term liability of various social problems to then target spending to reduce that cost – is a central piece in the government’s goal to achieve more from a smaller public service. Yesterday, MSD...
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Also included in this edition is information on: the $300 million funding for emergency housing, the National Policy Statement on Urban Development and the latest annual report from Housing NZ. Read the newsletter here: 17 November 2016.pdf
Building homes you can afford in places you need to be Auckland’s population has risen by about 90,000 in the past couple of years. That’s equal to the population of Invercargill and Whanganui combined. And with the average house price in Auckland now close to a...
The report states that: “Housing New Zealand maintains a clear focus on meeting our social objectives, while managing a property portfolio that has an investment rationale based around long-term rental sustainability. We continue to earn excellent long-term rental...
The survey framework was developed by CHA, Ministry of Social Development (MSD) and CRESA and will be updated quarterly on this website so we can see the change in the number of homes provided by the sector. MSD will incorporate the results to inform its purchasing...
They were joined by others from New Zealand (see the photo below) and heard from communities across Canada that are implementing Housing First and learnt about their successes and challenges. This learning will be invaluable as we implement Housing First across...
The $303.6 million package, over this financial year and the next four, is made up of: $120 million in capital funding to build, buy or lease properties suitable for emergency housing. $100 million of this will be as a loan to HNZ. $71 million in rental subsidies....
NEW ZEALAND EVENT HIGHLIGHTS Mixed tenure: design or dollars? Mixed tenure – better outcomes for families and communities vs as a driver to cross-subsidise affordable housing with market housing Living in a parallel universe- who benefits from tenure mix? Discussion...
You’ll also find more information on: Responding to Indigenous Homelessness in Australia and New Zealand, the latest edition of Parity magazine RFP for ‘better outcomes’ funding closes 18 November Recommendations for methamphetamine contamination clean-up New...
“The National Policy Statement on Urban Development Capacity (NPS-UDC) requires councils to allow for a greater supply of houses, so prices rise more slowly and houses are more affordable. The long-term root cause of New Zealand’s housing affordability problems is...