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• A tiny forest starts with a mighty tōtara

  Sixty tamariki from Mangere East Primary School performed a moving waiata as they welcomed a six-metre tall tōtara tree to its new home, next to their school playground. The tōtara is the first to be rehomed as part of the Mangere Ngahere Project, a collaboration between Kāinga Ora, Mangere East Family Services and Uru Whakaaro

• Māngere Community Enviro Hub: ‘From picking up rubbish, to planting out trees, to feeding the people’

  Mangere community groups have taken a site provided by Kāinga Ora and grown it into a space to connect and protect their environment. generations go by, it’s just going to keep getting worse,” he says. “So why not be the role model and try to make a change?” Last month, the Māngere College

• Bari Lane Digs In

  It was a big day at Māngere's Bari Lane recently as the community was invited to join the fun of Digger Day on one of our biggest sites in that community. Māngere has one of the largest active housing developments in New Zealand at the moment, especially close by Māngere Centre. Bari Lane has a new extended road

• High school students building new Kāinga Ora homes

  Massey High School building academy students felt a deep sense of pride as their first Kāinga Ora home was officially opened. The new three-bedroom home was built on the Massey school grounds, but now sits in Mangere, with a family set to move in shortly. Seventeen-year-old Mckoy

• Kāinga Ora and Spotless celebrate biggest ever cohort of young Māngere cadets

  Seventeen-year-old sisters Tarial, Salote and Aliitasi Seuteni were busier than usual during the term one school holidays; they spent them getting up early and learning how to wire in lights and install ovens. Cadetship Programme. Under the programme, Year 12 and 13 students from Māngere College, De La Salle, Southern Cross and, Auckland Seventh-day

• Cadetship paving way for young women in construction

  It’s not often you find high school students willing to give up their school holidays to do work experience, but for Sisilia, a young woman from Mangere, the decision was easy. joint initiative between Kāinga Ora and maintenance partner Spotless (a Downer company), aims to give Mangere youth exposure to different vocations and careers

• The ‘magic’ of Mangere house relocations

  Four homes vanished from Mangere overnight, reappearing the next morning as career opportunities for rangatahi. older state houses from Lavinia Crescent, Mangere, needed to be removed to make way for up to 90 new terraces and stand-alone homes, along with upgraded

• Community at the heart of new Mangere development

  The Mangere Development has taken another leap forward, with the opening of the innovative Bader Drive, McKenzie Road and Cessna Place complex. Boasting 65 new warm, dry homes on a 6,082 sqm site, the development replaces 16 older state homes built in the 1960s. The homes are part of the Mangere

• Deconstructed state homes given second life in Tonga

  Kāinga Ora, in partnership with Piritahi Aorere Project team, have deconstructed 6 old state homes in Mangere to aid in Tonga’s rebuild. old state homes in Mangere to aid in Tonga’s rebuild. Six Kāinga Ora state homes that once stood in Mangere have been carefully deconstructed, salvaged and

• Transitional housing villages open in Māngere

  Twenty-eight new homes to be used for transitional housing have opened in Māngere. 
  
  Produced using offsite manufacturing, 17 of the homes are situated on Garus Avenue, while the remaining 11 homes are on nearby Cottingham Crescent.  opened in Māngere The 11 Cottingham Crescent homes were also produced using offsite manufacturing. Built by Perry Modular homes in Cambridge, there are 8 two