Community housing tax entities

Nov 4, 2015 | News

This sets out the threshold income and asset levels of beneficiaries and clients of community housing trusts and companies, amongst other technical changes. It includes: The threshold income for an applicant who is not a member of a group of applicants is $80,000. The...

Community housing provider meeting in Christchurch

Nov 4, 2015 | Events

Community Housing Aotearoa and Christchurch City Council have organised this meeting as a follow up to the discussion on 8 September, here are the minutes of that meeting. At that meeting there was interest in forming a network of providers to work on increasing the...

Australasian Housing Awards 2015

Nov 4, 2015 | News

Leading Innovation: Whangarei Accessible Housing Leading Housing Development Project Award: Accessible Properties NZ, 8-10 Middleton Road Development Leading Tenant Engagement Practice – Tenants Protection Association Christchurch The Winner of the Inspirational Team...

Papakainga developmnent guide

Nov 4, 2015 | Documents

Recognising that papakainga development is a difficult and complex process for whanau, this guide clearly defines the process and provides whanau with a resource to support them to realise their papakainga aspirations. The guide is based on the Māori philosophical...

Directors for New Zealand Housing Bonds announced

Nov 4, 2015 | News

The new directors are: Toni Kerr, Paul Minett and John Abel-Pattinson. Antoinette (Toni) Kerr, has significant experience in financial services. After focusing on risk management for capital markets and private banking with various multinational banks offshore, Toni...

New homeless project in Christchurch

Nov 3, 2015 | News

The Housing Options for the Homeless project was set up in July this year and has so far helped nine young people and two families off the streets and into private rental accommodation. The Council set aside a total of $130,000 from its Social Housing Fund for the...

Corrin Dan interviews Bill English

Nov 2, 2015 | News

Bill English comments “Well we’re doing as much as we feasibly can right now, and that is working with the Auckland City Council particularly over its new plan, which is going to reset the rules for Auckland. The new action we’re taking is to crank up the...

Tenancy bond system now online

Nov 2, 2015 | News

The new online Tenancy Service will make renting a property and paying a bond, quicker and easier. It will no longer require cheques and forms to be sent by post. The new system is simple, safe and secure, and will enable the 400,000 bond transactions processed each...