Reshuffle puts extra attention on housing

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

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

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...

How You Can Help the Homeless

New Zealand Statistics defines homelessness as people living ‘without shelter, people in temporary accommodation, people sharing accommodation and people in uninhabitable housing’. ‘Rough sleeping’ is the term used to describe the most challenging physical experience...

Campbell Live 30 September 2014 on Housing

Campbell Live on 30 September 2014 focused on Auckland’s housing problems and potential solutions. It featured an interview with the New Zealand Housing Foundation and Housing New Zealand Corporation You can watch the full programme here

Social housing reform landscape October 2014

The Housing Reform Landscape as presented by MBIE officials at the CHA Seminar and AGM on 14 October 2014. This is an ongoing work in progress and CHA is invited to take your views and consider if we have any suggestions to offer to MBIE. View the document here....