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  • New homes partnership a win for all involved

    New homes are being built as part of an ongoing partnership between Kāinga Ora and the Department of Corrections. Housing Minister Megan Woods was impressed with the partnership’s outcomes when she visited the construction yard at Rolleston Prison, near Christchurch

  • Life’s challenges no match for an independent spirit

    Life has thrown Lydia its fair share of challenges, but that hasn’t stopped her living it the way she wants to. . Lydia travelled to Christchurch for surgery to remove the tumour, but unfortunately during the operation she suffered a life-changing stroke. “All of a sudden, I

  • Our locations

    Visit our Kāinga Ora – Homes and Communities offices Monday to Friday between 9am to 4pm. Dunedin 62 Albany Street PO Box 830 Dunedin 9054 Nelson Level 1 (2nd Floor) 105 Trafalgar Street PO Box 342 Nelson 7010 Christchurch - Papanui 6 Restell Street

  • Love of Sāmoan language leads to lifetime of helping

    When Tiresa was growing up, she wanted nothing more than to keep her first language, Sāmoan, alive. The Kāinga Ora customer arrived in Christchurch from Sāmoa with her family when she was three months old and spent her childhood wanting to speak the language

  • New Kāinga Ora housing complex offers unique solar technology

    Kāinga Ora has completed a new 20-unit development in Christchurch that features solar technology expected to result in significantly lower power bills for people living there. Christchurch. The complex also includes a heat recovery system, which will help to reduce heatpump costs in each unit, and has an 8-Homestar rating, which means it has

  • Christchurch customers connect over kai

    Fried rice and pita bread pizzas were just some of the culinary delights on the menu when tenants at a Kāinga Ora complex in Christchurch took part in a free course that offers tips on how to cook on a budget. Resources to run its Christchurch-based ‘Money and Kai’ programme, which focuses on things such as menu planning and easy meal preparation. Christchurch tenant Colin

  • 'Don’t get in your own way’: Partnership provides post-Covid career opportunity

    From graphic design to a carpentry apprenticeship, the impact of Covid-19 in 2020 led to a new career path for one Christchurch woman. hired so far through Kāinga Ora Construction Partnering Agreements in Christchurch and Auckland. More than 190 people have joined the Kāinga Ora Apprenticeship

  • New home and city brings new lease of life

    Almost a year after moving into his new Christchurch home, Alex is still counting his blessings. Alex, who lives with a head injury after a work incident, moved from Dunedin to Christchurch last year in need of a fresh start. “Moving here has literally

  • Connections with communities

    Partnering our tenants with local services and their wider community is an important function of Kāinga Ora – Homes and Communities. The value of ensuring our tenants are given the tools and connections to live well in their homes is immeasurable. A great example of this in practice is the Eveleyn Couzins complex in the Christchurch suburb of Richmond,  where staff, tenants and local stakeholders

  • The taste of sustainability

    A simple gesture from one of our build partners in Christchurch has left a positive and healthy taste in the mouths of our customers. for our customers to use. The garden beds are dotted around the central Christchurch development. Fusion Homes not only built the beds but filled them with soil