Wellington City Council wins architecture award

May 13, 2014 | News

New Zealand Architecture Awards acknowledge the year’s best buildings, and this year, Wellington City Council has received an award for its Central Park Apartments, an existing social housing complex transformed by Novak + Middleton. “The strategy of fragmenting the...
Health and Safety Reform Bill

Health and Safety Reform Bill

May 6, 2014 | Submissions

CHA acknowledges that the purpose of this Bill is to ensure that New Zealand significantly improves work place health and safety conditions through a set of world class standards of protection for its citizens. CHA has concerns that the language of the Bill goes too...

New funding for rural and Māori housing

May 5, 2014 | News

“New Zealanders living in remote rural areas face a number of unique and often difficult challenges, including the cost and availability of decent housing,” Associate Housing Minister Tariana Turia says. “That is why the Government has allocated funding to...

Borrowing Alert

May 5, 2014 | News

CHA urges you to speak with the commercial lending manager of your bank to understand how your organisation might be impacted. Under the proposed new reporting requirement to take effect on July 1, 2014, “If the bank has recourse to, or is aware of, more than five...

Community, iwi groups lobby to buy state houses cheap

Apr 22, 2014 | News

NZ Herald article explores the issues raised in the Community Housing Aotearoa, Auckland Community Housing Providers’ Network and Te Matapihi policy paper ‘A way forward for stock transfers’ released on 16 April 2014. The article provides examples of...

A Way Forward for Stock Transfers

Apr 16, 2014 | News

Community Housing Aotearoa together with the Auckland Community Housing Providers Network and Te Matapihi have released a proposal calling for the establishment of an independent negotiating partner to facilitate the transfer of up to 20% of state housing and the...