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  • Holidays Act Payments

    haven’t received any information from Kāinga Ora about our Holidays Act remediation, and believe you may be entitled to receive a payment, complete the form below

  • Budgeting tips

    Find tips and tools to help with budgeting, saving and preparing for unexpected costs. need to plan for, along with links to other support you may be able to receive from the Ministry of Social Development Tips for the holiday season If you ask

  • Noa lands national award for leadership

    We are so proud of kaimahi Noa who has been named Young Leader of the Year | Te Tohu mō te Kaiārahi Rangatahi o te Tau in the Te Hāpai Hapori | Spirit of Service Awards. day began leisurely as she’d just started a holiday. By evening, however, she was back at work facing a mammoth task: to address the flood damage wrought to

  • Valuable insights from Oranga holiday programme

    Holiday programmes are always heaps of fun and a recent Oranga - Auckland programme was no exception. . Come completion approximately 1,100 new homes would have been built in Oranga. The Oranga holiday programme was a mahi tahi partnership between Auckland Council

  • Sights set on plumbing apprenticeship for students

    Two Year 12 students from Auckland Seventh Day Adventist School, Maio and Jojo, have spent the school holidays on the road with Ubend Plumbing as cadets, taking part in the Kāinga Ora Spotless cadetship programme. holidays, visiting homes all over Auckland and providing plumbing support to our mentors. "We’ve helped replace toilets, find leaks and learnt how to repair or

  • 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. Valley and Wellington City. “We are aware the end of year holiday period can be a tough time for many kiwis” says Jackie, Kāinga Ora, Regional Manager. “Working

  • 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. homes will come from emergency housing: “Families who are currently in emergency housing will also be moving into these homes, so they can celebrate the holiday

  • First Home Partner

    The purpose of this page is to assist existing First Home Partner customers. This scheme is now fully subscribed. Home Ownership holiday hours The Home Ownership team will be out of the office over the holiday period, from 12pm Wednesday, 24 December 2025, returning 8am on

  • Building material donation for Mangere church

    An act of kindness by the Free Church of Tonga – Mounga Olive has come full circle, with the organisation receiving more than $5,000 in building materials for a new social services centre. , including youth mentoring, school holiday programmes, elderly assistance, mental health services, parenting programmes and other support. Precision

  • Local students brighten holidays with handmade Christmas cards for the community

    The festive season started with a special surprise for over 250 customers and their neighbours, hand-delivered by Kāinga Ora staff early December. meaningful to show our customers and neighbours that they are part of a larger, caring community. Many whānau or individuals who receive a Christmas card may be

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