Our Programmes

Renewable Energy Programme

Kāinga Ora is installing solar panels on selected homes across the country, to help reduce energy costs for our tenants and make our homes more sustainable. The trials aim to understand how Kāinga Ora tenants can benefit from solar panels, and how we could provide the benefits of renewable energy to more tenants in the future.

If your home has solar panels, find out more information.

Kāinga Ora Retrofit Programme

Kāinga Ora is making our homes warmer, drier and healthier to help improve the wellbeing of our tenants. Through our Retrofit Programme, we’re upgrading and improving some of our older homes to help provide our tenants great places to call home.

Healthy Homes Programme

It’s important that your home feels warm, dry, healthy and safe at all times, so you and your whānau can live well. We manage this through routine maintenance, and by making sure your home meets Healthy Homes Standards.

Healthy Homes Standards(external link) were introduced by the Government in 2019 to help improve the quality of all tenanted rental homes in New Zealand. Homes owned and managed by Kāinga Ora had to meet minimum standards for heating, insulation, ventilation, moisture ingress (dampness) and drainage, and draught stopping by 1 July 2024.

To ensure your home remains compliant with the Standards, checks will be included in annual property inspections. You can also help by letting us know if any maintenance work is needed throughout the year.

Right at Home Programme

Living in a warm, dry and healthy home can help reduce the risk of preventable health conditions and respiratory issues.  

Our Right at Home Programme focuses on reducing the risk of housing-related illness for vulnerable people and whānau in our homes.

We get referrals to the Right at Home Programme from Te Whatu Ora/Health New Zealand-funded services known as the Healthy Homes Initiatives, we prioritise maintenance work and improvements including updates to meet the Government’s Healthy Homes Standards.

Improvements can include installing mechanical ventilation in the kitchen or bathroom, fitting or replacing carpets, drapes and insulation and installing new or additional heating sources.

Right at Home was previously known as the Rheumatic Fever Prevention Programme.

Our driveway safety programme

We care about the safety of our tenants and want to do what we can to prevent young children from being run over and hurt in our homes’ driveways.

Our award-winning driveway safety programme focuses on separating child play areas from driveways in properties where there are young children under the age of 5.