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Community Housing Aotearoa
Nga Wharerau o Aotearoa
Community Housing Aotearoa is the peak body for New Zealand's community
housing sector. Our 110 members build and manage affordable and social housing.
Our Vision is to make sure every New Zealander is well-housed in a warm, safe, dry
and affordable home. This is a basic human right.
We work to support the growth and development of community housing providers to
enable them to provide affordable and social housing.
We want to demonstrate that community housing is a critical element alongside
private and government owned housing. No one can do it alone.
Community Housing Aotearoa aims to:
- be the voice of the community housing sector
- build capacity and foster collaboration
- promote best practice in housing policy
- champion quality and excellence.
Community Housing Aotearoa - Latest News [Page 3]
New hope for Kiwi families
Wednesday, 4 September 2019, 2:07 pm | Community Housing Aotearoa
Community Housing Aotearoa says the Government’s new approach to home ownership is a win for the many thousands of New Zealanders seeking an affordable place to call home. More >>
Community housing sector looks forward to innovation
Friday, 28 June 2019, 1:56 pm | Community Housing Aotearoa
While welcoming the appointment of new Housing Minister Megan Woods as part of an expanded team of Ministers addressing the housing crisis, Community Housing Aotearoa hopes that the rhetoric will now be backed up with practical action. More >>
Funding To Include Community Housing In Systems Approach
Tuesday, 25 June 2019, 1:41 pm | Community Housing Aotearoa
The power of Community Housing Aotearoa as a catalyst to drastically increase the supply of adequate, affordable housing for families living in poverty has been recognised by the Peter McKenzie Project of the J R McKenzie Trust. More >>
Delivering Homes and Kāinga For All New Zealanders
Tuesday, 4 June 2019, 11:56 am | Community Housing Aotearoa
New Zealand is a first world country where every person should have access to a warm, dry, safe place to call home. Sadly, however, statistics show this is not the case. More >>
Affordable Housing good for wellbeing too!
Thursday, 30 May 2019, 2:41 pm | Community Housing Aotearoa
In responding to today’s Wellbeing Budget, Community Housing Aotearoa has again called for the establishment of a permanent affordable housing fund in order to drive real progress, and reiterated the community housing sector’s willingness to apply ... More >>
Community Housing Providers’ home building flatlines
Thursday, 14 March 2019, 11:41 am | Community Housing Aotearoa
The latest figures provided by the Auckland community housing sector show that the current settings for delivering new affordable homes aren’t working. More >>
Healthy Homes Standards welcomed
Monday, 25 February 2019, 11:11 am | Community Housing Aotearoa
Community Housing Aotearoa (CHA) supports the recently released Healthy Homes Standards. More >>
Time to redefine housing affordability
Tuesday, 27 November 2018, 9:34 am | Community Housing Aotearoa
Community Housing Aotearoa is calling on the Government’s new Housing and Urban Development Authority to move away from inflated market prices and instead produce homes that are truly affordable. More >>
‘Beyond Renting’ report supports investment in homeownership
Thursday, 18 October 2018, 10:36 am | Community Housing Aotearoa
Community Housing Aotearoa agrees with key aspects of the Beyond Renting report released yesterday by The Salvation Army. More >>
CHA gives a “must do better” grade on Public Housing Plan
Friday, 24 August 2018, 11:04 am | Community Housing Aotearoa
Community Housing Aotearoa applauds the Government for publishing a Public Housing Plan, but says the 6,400 funded units are far too few given the growing needs of over 10,500 applications on the social housing register. More >>
New Ministry of Housing and Urban Development welcomed
Friday, 8 June 2018, 2:59 pm | Community Housing Aotearoa
New Ministry of Housing and Urban Development welcomed by CHA Community Housing Aotearoa welcomes the announcement of the new Ministry of Housing and Urban Development. The new Ministry will provide the coordinated policy advice required to deliver better ... More >>
More Kōtuitui Places needed please – CHA
Friday, 25 May 2018, 3:05 pm | Community Housing Aotearoa
Community Housing Aotearoa says it is vital communities don’t have to wait six more years for another development like Manukau’s Kōtuitui Place to kick off. More >>
Budget delivers big first step in addressing housing crisis
Friday, 18 May 2018, 12:43 pm | Community Housing Aotearoa
Community Housing Aotearoa welcomes Budget 2018 as a solid down payment amid clear signs of a Government plan to address the scale of the housing crisis. More >>
Government investment endorses community housing approach
Friday, 4 May 2018, 2:51 pm | Community Housing Aotearoa
Community Housing Aotearoa is welcoming the Government’s continued commitment to an approach which puts permanent housing at the centre of curbing chronic homelessness. More >>
CHA says government needs community input to fix housing
Thursday, 5 April 2018, 12:51 pm | Community Housing Aotearoa
Community Housing Aotearoa says the government will fail if it only listens to government departments in producing a national housing strategy. More >>
KiwiBuild can’t do it alone, says CHA
Monday, 26 March 2018, 4:22 pm | Community Housing Aotearoa
Community Housing Aotearoa is urging the Government to take advantage of the experts in providing warm, dry affordable homes for New Zealanders – community housing providers. More >>
Govt urged to take human rights approach to house building
Friday, 16 February 2018, 11:38 am | Community Housing Aotearoa
The Government can save months of work and duplication by using the community housing sector’s blueprint for a new national housing strategy, Community Housing Aotearoa says. More >>
True Collaboration: Partnerships for the future of housing
Friday, 1 December 2017, 9:09 pm | Community Housing Aotearoa
Community Housing Aotearoa welcomes Minister for Housing and Urban Development Phil Twyford’s call to sit down with the community housing sector and agree a multi-year plan for how we can work together to grow the sector in a way that is both ambitious ... More >>
Delivering KiwiBuild with community housing sector partners
Wednesday, 29 November 2017, 11:41 am | Community Housing Aotearoa
Community housing providers are committed to make the changes necessary in their organisations to be able to deliver their part of 1000 homes a year of social and affordable housing as part of the Government’s KiwiBuild target. Leaders from 17 ... More >>
Community housing sector welcomes new data on social housing
Friday, 10 November 2017, 2:34 pm | Community Housing Aotearoa
Community Housing Aotearoa say it is pleased to see the Ministry of Social Development continue to publish informative data on social housing but is concerned that the level of social housing need continues to increase. More >>
