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Wānaka Families Secure Affordable Homes

Thursday, 24 August 2023, 5:02 pm | Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust

Eight Wānaka families have been allocated affordable homes – five purchasing these for under $430k – thanks to the Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust (QLCHT). Eight of the 28 new homes in Stage 1 of the QLCHT development site at Longview, ... More >>

Wānaka Families Secure Affordable Homes

Thursday, 24 August 2023, 10:51 am | Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust

Eight Wānaka families have been allocated affordable homes – five purchasing these for under $430k – thanks to the Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust (QLCHT). Eight of the 28 new homes in Stage 1 of the QLCHT development site at Longview, ... More >>

Wānaka Families Secure Affordable Homes From $472,000

Friday, 17 March 2023, 2:08 pm | Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust

Nine families can call Wānaka home with certainty, as the latest affordable properties in Northlake are completed this month. The properties on Malvern Road – ranging from $472,000 to $568,000 – are the latest to be built within the Queenstown Lakes ... More >>

Affordable Homes On The Horizon For The Queenstown Lakes District

Thursday, 10 November 2022, 10:20 am | Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust

Queenstown’s newest affordable housing development – Tewa Banks – is one step closer with two key appointments by the Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust (QLCHT). The Trust welcomes Trish Daley into a newly created Development Design Manager ... More >>

Housing Trust Supports New Inclusionary Housing Provisions In Principle

Friday, 23 September 2022, 8:49 am | Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust

The Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust (QLCHT) has confirmed its support in principle for the Queenstown Lakes District Council’s proposed new housing provisions, which will enable more locals to access permanently-affordable housing. Last month ... More >>

Affordable Arrowtown Homes Now Underway

Monday, 5 September 2022, 2:48 pm | Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust

The Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust (QLCHT) has broken ground on its 68-lot Tewa Banks development in Arrowtown. Earthworks will commence later this month for the new development, which comprises 68 new high-quality and energy-efficient affordable ... More >>

Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust Celebrates 15 Years Of Housing Local Families

Thursday, 11 August 2022, 3:22 pm | Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust

The Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust (QLCHT) is celebrating its 15-year anniversary, having helped 243 households across the Queenstown Lakes District into affordable housing. Since forming in 2007, the Trust has assisted local households ... More >>

Housing Trust Achieves International Recognition For Secure Home Programme

Friday, 8 July 2022, 10:12 am | Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust

The Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust (QLCHT) has won an international accolade for its groundbreaking Secure Home Programme. QLCHT’s Secure Home Programme won the Leading Innovation Award at the Australasian Housing Institute's annual Brighter ... More >>

New Chair For Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust

Wednesday, 4 May 2022, 2:33 pm | Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust

The Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust (QLCHT) has appointed prominent local businessman Richard Thomas as chair. Thomas’ appointment follows the resignation of previous chair Andrew Blair, who had been in the role since October 2018 and retired ... More >>

Fresh Face At Community Housing Trust

Thursday, 9 December 2021, 11:49 am | Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust

The Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust (QLCHT) has announced the appointment of Queenstown local and experienced property professional Brad McLeay as a Trustee. McLeay replaces Gigi Hollyer, a long-serving Trustee who has recently retired from ... More >>

Housing Trust Undertaking Sustainability Review Of Major Arrowtown Project

Monday, 9 August 2021, 2:33 pm | Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust

The Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust (QLCHT) is challenging its own urban design practice by seeking out specialists to help create affordable sustainable housing for future generations. The Trust is calling for proposals from urban design, ... More >>

Affordable Home Ownership Opportunity In Wanaka

Thursday, 29 July 2021, 8:47 am | Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust

Home ownership opportunities under $500,000 remain few and far between in Wanaka these days. However, thanks to the Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust’s (QLCHT) ground-breaking assisted ownership model, Secure Home, this remains a real option ... More >>

Housing Trust Waiting List Continues To Grow Despite Rents Reducing

Friday, 23 July 2021, 9:32 am | Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust

The waiting list for assistance from the Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust (QLCHT) is continuing to grow despite COVID-19 resetting rental prices across the district. Before the pandemic hit New Zealand shores, QLCHT had a waiting list of ... More >>

Progressive Home Ownership Launched At Queenstown Apartments

Friday, 12 March 2021, 5:42 pm | Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust

Yesterday celebrated the kickstart of 25 first home buyers into their Progressive Home Ownership (PHO) journey at the Toru apartments in Queenstown. Twenty-five households will be purchasing homes under the Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust’s ground-breaking ... More >>

Home Ownership In Queenstown Now Truly Affordable With Housing Trust

Thursday, 28 January 2021, 3:01 pm | Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust

Home ownership in Queenstown has never been more affordable thanks to the Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust’s ground-breaking assisted ownership model, Secure Home. Three years after signing a contract for 50 of the 78 units in the Toru development ... More >>

Affordable Housing Underway At Wānaka Subdivision Hikuwai

Monday, 21 September 2020, 1:23 pm | Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust

Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust’s ground-breaking assisted ownership model, Secure Home, is coming to Wānaka for the first time – with six houses under construction at Hikuwai. QLCHT is building two 2-bedroom, three 3-bedroom, and one ... More >>

Sober Findings In Major Survey Of Queenstown Lakes Renters

Wednesday, 5 August 2020, 9:16 am | Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust

Residential renters in Queenstown and Wanaka are still experiencing significant housing stress in the the rental market despite rent prices falling in June, a local survey reveals. Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust (QLCHT) surveyed more than ... More >>

Government Funding Announced For Community Housing Trust’s Secure Home Programme

Friday, 24 July 2020, 1:54 pm | Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust

  The Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust (QLCHT) has today received confirmation of a $6.35m interest-free loan from the Government. Housing Minister Megan Woods today announced the Government would commit $6.35m to supporting QLCHT’s ... More >>

New Wanaka Trustee For Community Housing Trust

Wednesday, 11 March 2020, 1:10 pm | Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust

The Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust (QLCHT) has announced the appointment of Wanaka local Phil Smith as a Trustee, on the retirement of Peter Southwick. Southwick had been a Trustee since January 2015. Earlier this year he moved to Cambridge with ... More >>

Trust announces architects for Tewa Banks project

Thursday, 17 October 2019, 11:21 am | Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust

The Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust has today announced they have engaged JTB Architects for its affordable housing project on council-owned land in Arrowtown. More >>

 

 
 
 
 
 

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