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  • Fresh coat of paint for thousands of our homes

    $50 million investment on painting Kāinga Ora homes across Aotearoa/New Zealand. out with places like Far North District getting more than $600,000 in new fencing, $868,000 in Gisborne, $1.1 million in Rotorua, $537,000 in Wanganui City and

  • Self-sown and supreme: How a Greenlane garden grew

    Congratulations to our Greenlane customer David, whose paradise of palms, succulents and native plants has earned the top award in this year’s Great Gardens of Kāinga Ora competition. A single tree stood in the yard when David moved into his Kāinga Ora home 25 years ago. “Everywhere else was just grass,” he says. But it didn’t stay that way

  • New home a ‘weight lifted off shoulders’ for Len

    When 69-year-old Len faced a major hurdle after a hip operation, the Kāinga Ora team sprang into action to secure a home for the Hamilton-based customer that met his mobility and accessibility needs. Manager David. “Len’s whānau supported the move so well that we were able to visit him in the hospital and complete the sign-up process while they carried out

  • Ambitious Auckland development complete in time for Christmas

    Families have started moving into a large development on St Georges Road in Avondale. connection to the Western Cycleway through the development. It was the first Kāinga Ora development to become accredited by mental health charity MATES in

  • New homes change lives of two large Hastings families

    Tears are very close to the surface this Christmas for mum of six Paula. Her eyes glaze over when she thinks about the phone call she received from Kāinga Ora saying they had a 4 bedroom home in Hastings she could move into. experiences of the Bennett and Milo families are why this work is vitally important and we are all committed to it.” Both the Bennett and Milo family now have

  • Zita gifts taonga to welcome new neighbours

    When nine newly built homes were blessed in Rutherford Road Napier recently, a very special guest turned up to welcome the families who were moving into the neighbourhood. supportive of the charity work I was involved in.” As a long-standing Māori Warden, Zita also works at the district court 'looking after our people’. When she is

  • Kāinga Ora enables a men's respite house in Gisborne

    A respite house for men has recently opened in Gisborne, thanks to the support of Kāinga Ora’s Community Group Housing. , Tauawhi trustee and patron Ralph Walker, Tauawhi Whare Ahuru kaitiaki Moetahi Kennedy, Coby Te Pairi of Te Runanganui o Ngāti Porou, David Johnstone of Tauawhi

  • A home to help the healing

    After a tough year fighting cancer, Jean is overjoyed to have recently moved into a new five-bedroom home in Rotorua with her children. life. She volunteers for food rescue charity Love Soup twice a week, sorting and giving out rescued food boxes. Jean with her son and mokopuna “It’s been healing

  • Kāinga Ora backs suicide prevention initiative

    Kāinga Ora will Fly the Flag in the name of positive mental health this month. To coincide with World Suicide Prevention Day on September 10, mental health charity MATES in Construction is encouraging building sites to fly MATES flags

  • Online ‘Lunch Room’ to support construction workers

    Suicide prevention charity MATES in Construction NZ has launched an online Lunch Room to support construction workers during the COVID-19 lockdown. two-year contract with the charity earlier this year. The MATES programme encourages workers to look at for one another and engage with colleagues who may be