Housing opportunities and services delivered through a community
Common Types of Community Housing Providers• Specialist non-government organisations that link housing services with support for clients with special needs. Examples include group homes for disabled people.

• Maori providers that cater specifically for iwi, hapu or whanau members. They may be part of a Runanga, Maori Service Providers or associated with a particular Marae. They often provide a range of services including; health, education, employment, training and social services as well as housing. In many cases they provide kaumatua housing.

• Non-profit housing trusts that are run by a voluntary board of management. Typically these agencies provide long term places in self-contained accommodation or in shared housing.

• Tenant cooperatives where tenant members participate directly in the management of their housing that may be leased or owned by the cooperative. Typically these are smaller organisations that are often formed by clients with a common interest, such as members of a particular cultural group.

• Providers managing emergency, short-term or transitional housing services for households with temporary needs or for people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.

• Local Authority housing providers. Of the 73 Territorial Local Authorities (TLAs, that is City, District and Unitary Councils) 69 of them own and manage some form of social housing portfolio. In most cases these cater for low-income super annuitants or people with other social needs, but several, including Christchurch City Council (2,651), Wellington City Council (more than 2,300) and Dunedin City Council (over 990 units) have relatively large portfolios. In total TLAs own in the region of 14,000 units across New Zealand, making them far larger providers than the rest of the community housing sector, and second only to HNZC as providers of social housing.