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Community Housing Aotearoa does not provide housing, our members do. CHA’s members include community housing organisations, social service providers, developers, researchers, and many other organisations with a focus on community.

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155 Whare Awhina

155 Whare Awhina

E ngā mana, e ngā reo, e ngā iwi ō te motu. Tēnei te mihi aroha ki ā koutou katoa. We are a Kaupapa Māori provider of wraparound support services for whānau in Taitokerau. You can find us at ...

Website: https://www.155.org.nz/

Accessible Properties New Zealand Ltd

Accessible Properties New Zealand Ltd

Accessible properties is New Zealand's largest non-Government social housing provider managing more than 1400 homes throughout the country - and makes these available for affordable rental for ...

Website: http://www.accessibleproperties.co.nz/

Age Concern New Zealand

Age Concern New Zealand

Age Concern is the charity in your neighbourhood supporting older people, their friends and whānau. We lead, advocate, connect and collaborate nationally to deliver local services that support ...

Website: https://www.ageconcern.org.nz/

Alcohol and Drug Community Support Trust

Alcohol and Drug Community Support Trust

We provide supportive accommodation for men and women with alcohol and drug related problems seeking a safe recovery situation. Our services, for people for whom accommodation is not their ...
Assisting Different Abilities Peoples Trust (ADAPT)

Assisting Different Abilities Peoples Trust (ADAPT)

ADAPT strives to support developers and operators to deliver excellent lifestyle based outcomes to those with intellectual disabilities. Our aspiration is to create new universal design led ...

Website: https://www.adapt.org.nz/

Auckland City Mission

Auckland City Mission

For more than 100 years, we’ve stood with Aucklanders who need us most. As Auckland’s social needs and issues have evolved, so have we. Since our doors first opened, the Mission has been ...

Website: https://www.aucklandcitymission.org.nz/

Auckland Community Housing Trust

Auckland Community Housing Trust

Auckland Community Housing Trust primarily assists low income families and people with mental health needs into housing that is affordable and meets their requirements. Auckland Community ...
Bays Community Housing Trust

Bays Community Housing Trust

Early in 2004, a small group of people who belong to Long Bay Baptist Church, identified that there was a very real need on the North Shore for accessible, good quality housing for people who ...

Website: www.bcht.org.nz

Beacon Pathway

Beacon Pathway

Beacon Pathway is an incorporated society committed to transforming New Zealand's homes and neighbourhoods. Through research and demonstration projects, we hope to show how to make our homes ...

Website: www.beaconpathway.co.nz

Bishop’s Action Foundation

Bishop’s Action Foundation

Bishop's Action Foundation is a catalyst working collaboratively to achieve positive change for the common good. We want to respond to social issues at their root cause. In working towards our ...

Website: www.baf.org.nz

Boffa Miskell Limited

Boffa Miskell Limited

Bringing together multi-disciplinary teams to help our clients enhance the value and sustainability of our natural, built and social environment. Award winning consultants in planning, landscape ...

Website: http://www.boffamiskell.co.nz

Chintaro (MDB Consulting)

Chintaro (MDB Consulting)

Chintaro Housing Management Software (MDB Consulting)MDB Consulting is the developer and supporter of Chintaro who provide housing management software. Some of the growing list of New Zealand ...

Website: www.chintaro.com.au

Chow Hill Architects

Chow Hill Architects

We are innovative designers recognised for shaping authentic places and inspiring people.Chow:Hill is a design practice working in public, private and not-for-profit sectors. We are committed to ...

Website: http://www.chowhill.co.nz

Christchurch City Council

Christchurch City Council

Christchurch City Council has been providing rental accommodation for people with a serious housing need since 1938. Council Social Housing has been managed, under lease, by the Otautahi ...

Website: https://ccc.govt.nz

Christchurch Methodist Mission

Christchurch Methodist Mission

The Christchurch Methodist Mission is committed to providing warm, affordable and secure accommodation to those who need it most, ensuring that new tenants get the support they require. They are ...

Website: http://www.mmsi.org.nz

CNSST Foundation – Formerly known as Chinese New Settlers Services Trust

CNSST Foundation – Formerly known as Chinese New Settlers Services Trust

CNSST Foundation (formerly known as Chinese New Settlers Services Trust) is a registered charitable trust, which offers culturally and linguistically appropriate services to both Asian new ...

Website: www.cnsst.org.nz

Cobham Street Trust

Cobham Street Trust

Good quality, affordable, sustainable housing that enables all people to enjoy a fulfilled life as part of their community. Cobham Street Trust was established in 1979 and is registered with the ...

Website: http://www.swbc.org.nz/ministry/seniors/cobham-street-trust/

Comcare Trust

Comcare Trust

Comcare is a CHRA registered community housing provider. From small beginnings the organisation is now a large regional provider of social housing. Comcare specialises in housing single people, ...

Website: http://www.comcare.org.nz/

Community Finance

Community Finance

Community Finance provides low cost finance to New Zealand’s Community Housing Providers to build new, safe and affordable homes for all Kiwis. As a social enterprise, Community Finance brings ...

Website: www.communityfinance.co.nz

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Membership Benefits

  • CHA advocates on behalf of community housing organisations through submissions, policy positions, and government relations. 
  • Conferences and training at a reduced member rate
  • Regular e-bulletins sent directly to your inbox
  • Access to the CHA quality assurance programmes, trainings, and advice 
  • Participation in member surveys and forums
  • Advance notices about new developments and initiatives.

The CHA Constitution sets out two categories of members – Full and Partner  these are defined below:

Full Membership

These are Iwi, Māori and Pacific Island and Community or voluntary housing organisations and groups which are either:

a) Providers of Community housing, or

b) Groups intending or seeking to become providers of Community- housing, or

c) Groups of residents/tenants of community housing, or

d) Groups which advocate for Community housing or residents of Community housing as part of their work.

Annual fees for Full Members for 2024/25 are currently being reviewed and will be published shortly. 

 

Partner Membership

These are individuals, local authorities, private development companies, and other private and public entities which invest, operate, own or develop affordable, Community and/or Social housing.

If you have a question about which category of membership you should apply for, please contact us to discuss.

Annual fees for Partner Members for 2024/25 are currently being reviewed and will be published shortly. 

The membership year is from 1 Jan – 30 Dec.

Join us by signing up below and pay online here

CHA provides the collective voice for community housing organisations so we can get on with providing homes. They provide the key messages we need heard about growing the community housing sector and how that can happen. CHA also keep us informed in a time when there’s a lot happening that we need to know about

CHA member, Alison Cadman, Dwell Housing Trust, Wellington

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39 The Terrace/102-112 Lambton Quay
PO Box 11543
Wellington 6142

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CHA’s Submission on the RBNZ Risk Weighting

CHA delivered this submission to the Reserve Bank of New Zealand in response to their consultation on Risk Weights.  We have urged the Reserve Bank to work with banks and financial institutions to recognise lending to registered Community Housing Providers as a...

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CHA 2022 Annual Report and Audited Accounts

What a year for our Community Housing Aotearoa Ngā Wharerau o Aotearoa team. Our Annual Report highlights our service delivery, including: - 16 submissions to central and local government. - 30 trainings and events delivered on topics ranging from public health...

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