News
See the latest updates from Kāinga Ora – Homes and Communities.
22 January 2020
Kāinga Ora helping keen Kiwis into trades
Kāinga Ora is helping dozens of Kiwis into trades, thanks to its apprenticeship programme.
13 January 2020
Fresh coat of paint for thousands of our homes
$50 million investment on painting Kāinga Ora homes across Aotearoa/New Zealand.
10 January 2020
House built at Rimutaka Prison for a whānau in need
One of the first houses to be built at Rimutaka Prison, as part of a partnership between Kāinga Ora and WelTec, will soon be transported to its permanent site.
7 January 2020
Miles of fencing for our tenants
Masses of timber that would cover more than the distance between Dunedin and Oamaru will be erected as fencing on Kāinga Ora homes across the country this financial year.
6 January 2020
Hectares of new roofing for our homes
Kāinga Ora rolls out more than 13 hectares of new roofing across Aotearoa/New Zealand.
23 December 2019
A new family home for Christmas
Families in need will be spending this Christmas in a new warm, dry home, thanks to 12 new Kāinga Ora – Homes and Communities state homes at Strathmore, Wellington.
20 December 2019
Tahi growing connections and vegetables in his community
Tahi Ratapu loves his gardening and that passion is evident not only in his backyard but at a local school too.
17 December 2019
Kai goes down well at Christchurch school
A community breakfast club catered for about 200 school kids recently with Kāinga Ora staff again helping out.
16 December 2019
New Kāinga Ora Accessibility Policy
With our new Accessibility Policy, we have committed to ensuring that at least 15% of the new homes we are building across the country meet universal design standards, and the rest meet as many of these universal design standards as possible.
16 December 2019
Teaming up to provide Christmas cheer
This Christmas, Kāinga Ora – Homes and Communities and Wellington City Mission are teaming up to provide some of our most vulnerable tenants a Christmas or New Year treat.
13 December 2019
Getting our tenants active with the Wellington City Council leisure card
Lets get Active Wellington is a partnership between Wellington City Council (WCC) and Kāinga Ora.
10 December 2019
Kāinga Ora re-affirms its support for the east
The popular annual Affirm festival in the Christchurch eastern suburb of Aranui again drew a crowd.