KiwiBuild announces opportunity for offsite manufacturers

KiwiBuild has today issued an Invitation To Participate (ITP) to offsite manufacturers of housing solutions to support the delivery of 100,000 new affordable homes over the next ten years. Head of KiwiBuild Stephen Barclay says exploring opportunities that offsite...

Report: House prices will push 200k families out of the cities

A new report from the Centre for Research, Evaluation and Social Assessment shows for much of the population the housing crisis has been building for more than a decade. Community House Aotearoa chief executive Scott Figenshow told Mike Hosking it’s been a long...

Proposals to make homes healthier released

Healthy homes standards will set minimum requirements for heating, insulation, ventilation, moisture and drainage, and draught stopping in residential rental properties. Phil Twyford said the Government was committed to improving the quality of rental properties so...

Auckland Community Housing Provider Network expects more

Friday’s release of Government’s Public Housing Plan is not enough to address the crisis of affordable housing that Auckland faces says Hope Simonsen, Chair of the Auckland Community Housing Provider Network. “The very limited focus on social housing (public housing)...

First KiwiBuild homes completed and ready for sale

The finished 18 KiwiBuild homes will be sold through a ballot which runs for four weeks and opens on September 10. They are 18 warm, modern and architecturally-designed stand-alone homes, made up of 12 three-bedroom homes selling for $579,000 and six four-bedroom...