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  • Introducing our first-ever Landscape Design Guide

    Kāinga Ora has developed a design guide to help promote sustainable landscapes in all of our state housing developments. The Landscape Design Guide for State Housing is Kāinga Ora’s first official guide on landscaping standards for all of our state housing and transitional

  • Design guidelines

    The design guides help to ensure that all design and building projects meet our standards, and reflect our design principles. -based design guidelines. They describe our design and build process from start to finish, making it an indispensable guide for anyone working or thinking about

  • Our driveway safety programme

    We care about the safety of our tenants and want to do what we can to prevent young children from being run over and hurt in our homes’ driveways. properties (as at July 2020). Our design guidelines consider driveway safety We have design guidelines to ensure driveway safety is taken care of when we build

  • Old flames: Kāinga Ora partnership with Fire and Emergency NZ going strong

    A house fire can be devastating and at worst, deadly. To help reduce the risk of fires in our homes, we’ve joined forces with Fire and Emergency New Zealand. , or MOU. It guides how both agencies will work closely and collaboratively on ways to keep our customers and homes safe from fire. Grant McNeil, Manager

  • Launch of new Ngaa Hau o Maangere Ngahere Planting Guide

    A new planting guide will help contribute to increasing the environmental and cultural outcomes for Mangere and its connection to nature. Recently, Kāinga Ora was proud to help launch the new Nga Hau o Maangere Ngahere Planting Guide, a collaboration between mana whenua, Mangere East Family

  • Home ownership resources

    Download our product brochures and access useful links to websites that can help you through the path to home ownership. puka āwhina ki te whai whare|A guide to buying a home [PDF, 5.2 MB] – Designed to give Māori the support to achieve their housing aspirations Common terms [PDF

  • New homes make a difference for whānau with health challenges

    Not having somewhere suitable to live is challenging for anyone, but when you are battling health issues, that challenge is compounded. place is just beautiful and close to shops, grocery stores and the doctors. I love the design, I love the storage, and I am enjoying bringing all our stuff out

  • Māori home ownership prioritised through Housing Foundation partnership in Mangere

    Kāinga Ora are thrilled to partner with New Zealand Housing Foundation (Housing Foundation) to deliver affordable homes for Māori whānau in Mangere West. For over twenty years, New Zealand Housing Foundation has helped hundreds of families into home ownership. interested in homeownership." "Our commitment to Te Tiriti O Waitangi guides this process. especially applying the principles of partnership, participation and

  • Who we are

    Kāinga Ora provides social housing and support to individuals and families across New Zealand. for Māori. community organisations and social service providers to ensure tenants receive support beyond housing. Legislation Legislation that guides the way

  • Budget 2023: Confidence in delivery

    The Government’s Budget 2023 announcement today has confirmed Kāinga Ora will continue to deliver the additional public housing needed for New Zealanders. , along with initiating or undertaking urban development. The Ministry of Housing and Urban Development’s Public Housing Plan 2021-2024 guides the work of Kāinga Ora

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