Second stage of assessments under way for state housing projects

Our assessment process, which is being carried out in stages, involves looking at:

• The locations where we are trying to deliver more homes, or where renewal of older homes is a high priority,
• The costs and plans of the proposed projects and checking they still stack up financially and that there are not better options for using the site.

Over the two years to 30 June 2026, Kāinga Ora will be adding 2,650 additional homes to the state housing stock and renewing almost 3,000 other state homes. We want to make sure we are getting best value for money from our projects so we can deliver social housing in the areas where it is most needed.

Initially our priority was to ensure we met our social housing delivery targets for this financial year, so the first stage of our assessment process focused on proposed projects with the potential to be delivered before 30 June 2025.

That first stage is now complete. We have now moved onto the second stage, which involves reviewing all proposed projects for our 2025/2026 build programmes.

As part of this second stage, we will take another look at projects not selected to proceed in the first assessment stage, so it is still possible some of those projects will proceed.

We expect to complete the second stage of our assessment around the middle of 2025. At that point we will be able to say which projects are going ahead and which are being cancelled.

Some sites may need to wait for future decisions on our build programme beyond the 2026 financial year.

If we are not going to proceed with a planned development, where possible we will bring existing homes on sites back into our letting pool.

As decisions are made on projects, we will inform our partners and the community.

More information

• Kāinga Ora state housing projects under assessment - 11 September 2024
• Our approach to delivering social housing