Urban development and social housing / Industry Hub

Industry Hub

Find out how Kāinga Ora works with the development and construction industries to increase housing supply for all New Zealanders.

Partnerships,

Rangatahi renovations build connection and career

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Partnerships,

Rangatahi renovations build connection and career pathways

Four homes arrived on trucks, but that’s just where the journey began for 75 teenage tradies in training. Rangatahi tell us why they wanted to restore a relocated Kāinga Ora home.

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Kāinga Ora urban development keeps on

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Build, Partnerships,

Kāinga Ora urban development keeps on delivering

New roads, pipes and streetlights have paved the way for thousands of new homes in neighbourhoods across Auckland and in eastern Porirua, as large-scale urban developments led by Kāinga Ora hit new milestones.

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Social housing projects win big at design and urban planning

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Build, Partnerships,

Social housing projects win big at design and urban planning awards

Multiple Kāinga Ora developments across the motu have been recognised for their immaculate design, masterful urban planning, and thoughtful build innovation.

Build, Community, Partnerships,

Coming together to plan the future of Auckland’s

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Build, Community, Partnerships,

Coming together to plan the future of Auckland’s North-West

Auckland’s North-West has been reconfirmed as a spatial priority area (also known as priority development areas or PDAs) in the city’s new Future Development Strategy, enabling investment and joined-up planning to support anticipated growth.

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Foundations for the future: Partnering for good in

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Build, Urban Design, Partnerships,

Foundations for the future: Partnering for good in Tauranga

Alongside its build programme, Kāinga Ora partners with developers to acquire new homes in areas of high housing need. This includes Gemscott Developments Limited, who has built 443 social homes – including a recent development in Tauranga.

Build, Community, Sustainability, Partnerships,

Recycling and reuse at the heart of Port Chalmers

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Build, Community, Sustainability, Partnerships,

Recycling and reuse at the heart of Port Chalmers redevelopments

The redevelopment of Kāinga Ora homes in Port Chalmers, Dunedin is showing how a more sustainable approach to developing sites can benefit not only the environment, but the local community as well.

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Offsite innovation for

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Build, Partnerships,

Offsite innovation for housing

Partnerships, Partnerships,

Kāinga Ora extends partnership with Auckland civil

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Partnerships, Partnerships,

Kāinga Ora extends partnership with Auckland civil alliance

In January 2025, we confirmed we will be ending our contractual agreement with LEAD Alliance. We will be exploring alternative contracting options for the delivery of our infrastructure programmes across our large-scale projects (LSPs).

Partnerships,

Barriers down as a new panel is stood

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Partnerships,

Barriers down as a new panel is stood up

Kāinga Ora has an important responsibility to create homes and communities that allow New Zealanders to thrive, and it’s a responsibility we can’t deliver on our own.

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Building opportunity through

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Build, Community, Sustainability, Partnerships,

Building opportunity through waste

Timber from old public houses is being used to create new furniture and assist with skills training in Tonga.

Partnerships,

Civils works completed in Mangere West

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Partnerships,

Civils works completed in Mangere West project

Civils works on the Mangere West A project – stage 1 (west side of Te Ara-rata Creek), which forms part of the wider Mangere Development large-scale project, were completed in May 2022.