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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

  • New guidance helping to deliver sustainable, thriving communities

    Kāinga Ora releases refreshed Tāone Ora: Urban Design Guidelines for public, market and affordable housing and Toitū Te Whenua Toitū Te Kāinga: Landscape Design Guide For Public Housing. , Tāone Ora: Urban Design Guidelines and Toitū Te Whenua Toitū Te Kāinga: Landscape Design Guide For Public Housing . The documents will enable Kāinga Ora

  • Design guidelines

    The design guides help to ensure that all design and building projects meet our standards, and reflect our design principles. homes being specified. Projects are still required to comply with Kāinga Ora design guidelines and build standards including requirements set out in  Nga Paerewa Hoahoa Whare: Design Requirements [PDF, 3.5 MB] .

  • 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

  • Northcote Greenway: Weaving the strands of community together

    Northcote residents and students are providing valuable input to the design of the Awataha Greenway so that it becomes a place that is treasured by the community. community workshops and Design Lab sessions will guide the ongoing development of the greenway. HLC and Panuku are in the concept design phase for the schools’ edge portion of the greenway.

  • 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

  • How (and why) public space can be made accessible for all

    What is Universal Design and why does it matter? Principal Urban Designer George Weeks explains. baffled in non-English-speaking countries? If you answered “yes” to one or more of these questions, then you will appreciate universal design. “ Universal what? ” I

  • 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

  • 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