Community Housing Aotearoa

Opening doorways to Community Housing

Government

Over the last couple of weeks we have heard a lot from our three major politicial parties regarding their housing policies, and it can be difficult to understand quite what is being said. 

We have broken it down to what we understand to be three key points on offer from each party:

 

The Productivity Commission Housing Affordability report has just been released and nearly 20% of the 265 page report is devoted to social, community and Maori housing.

Last week’s Maori Housing Conference held at Waitangi was definitely one to remember.

The recent social housing fund, which is in the process of being allocated by the Social Housing Unit (SHU), has been oversubscribed by four and a half times over, frustrating non-government housing organisations says Community Housing Aotearoa, New Zealand’s umbrella group for the community housing sector.