Member Profile: CORT Community Housing

Oct 23, 2014 | Member profiles

In 1987, Auckland’s Ponsonby Baptist Church set up the Community of Refuge Trust (CORT) in response to the housing needs of people on low incomes in its local area. CORT Community Housing now manages 186 properties and has 216 tenants: It owns 95 properties and rents...

Social housing review to start later this year

Oct 21, 2014 | News

Mayor Celia Wade-Brown says the City Council is a major provider in the affordable rental housing sector in Wellington and that the Council is keeping to its commitment to review its Social Housing Policy every five years. Read the full press release on Scoop...

‘No point’ in new state houses

Oct 17, 2014 | News

In a briefing with the NZ Herald, Bill English said the Government planned to sell some of the country’s 68,125 state houses, which are currently valued at $18.7 billion, but did not have any particular target for the number of units that would be sold. Read the...

Reshuffle puts extra attention on housing

Oct 7, 2014 | News

Yesterday’s Cabinet reshuffle saw Nick Smith remain as Housing Minister, but responsibility for the $15 billion of property Housing New Zealand owns passes to Finance Minister Bill English. Read the full Dominion Post article here.

Mayor and WCC staff temporarily homeless

Oct 7, 2014 | News

This Friday (10 October) is World Homeless Day and Wellington City Council is taking part in The Salvation Army’s team-based 14 Hours homeless event to increase awareness and raise funds to help New Zealand’s homeless people. Read the full press release on Scoop...

CHA AGM and Seminar: The Future of our Sector

Oct 7, 2014 | Events

Dear Members and Colleagues Please join us on Tuesday 14 October for critical discussions on the future of our community housing sector to be held from 10am – 3pm at St Johns in the City, 170 Willis St, Wellington. We have organised a seminar to discuss the...