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  • New home a game-changer for wheelchair sports enthusiast

    Wheelchair sports enthusiast and Dunedin local Dillon says his wellbeing has improved tenfold since he moved into his fully accessible Kāinga Ora home. . “Going from walking everywhere and having no issues moving round a home, to having to use a wheelchair and having difficulty getting through doorways was really

  • Kāinga Ora scoops Māori Crown Relationships Award

    Congratulations to our people who were part of the team that won the Te Hāpai Hāpori - Spirit of Service Awards 2020 Māori Crown Relationships Award. Service Commission, which focused on auahatanga (innovation), whakapūmautanga (durability) and kōwhiringa (opportunities). Dame Karen Sewell, from the Australia and

  • 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. NZ Chief Executive Victoria McArthur says the free, one-hour Lunch Room (external link) meetings will be held every Monday to Friday via Zoom from 10.30am

  • Future looks bright again thanks to new home

    For Amye, her new Kāinga Ora home in Dunedin means she can live her life how she wants and get back to what she loves doing – working. much of her twenties working in Australia, but her life took an unexpected turn when she moved to Mosgiel to support her sister and niece through some personal

  • ‘My life changed’: Kāinga Ora delivers five homes a week in Canterbury during 2020

    Jimaima was in tears when she got her new home. After years of struggles and living with the effects of a stroke, she now has a safe place to call her own. Hers is just one of 260 new homes provided for people in need in Canterbury in 2020. from place to place. Her family helped her move to Australia to see if things would be better there, but when Covid-19 hit she moved back to Christchurch to

  • Family of seven settled in Kauri Place, Hastings

    After living in three small motel rooms for nearly three years, Petelo, Marie and their five children are loving life in Kāinga Ora’s new housing development in Kauri Place. sometimes fighting.” Petelo and Marie moved from Samoa to New Zealand in 2016. “We moved in with my sister. When she moved to Australia we stayed in the house

  • Completed infrastructure works readies Mangere West for new housing

    As part of the Kāinga Ora effort to ready some Auckland suburbs for housing development, the first significant parcel of civils and infrastructure works, across two stages, is now complete in part of the Mangere Large-Scale Project – Mangere West. be one of south Auckland’s largest rain garden (external link) on Hall Ave – which is drawing much curiosity from the community. The works included replacing

  • Major Government investment in water and sewerage infrastructure for eastern Porirua

    The Porirua Development is more than just upgrading and creating news homes in eastern Porirua; it’s about ensuring the infrastructure and community amenities can support future generations. decisions on funding priorities for Eastern Porirua will follow business case work by Kāinga Ora this year. Read the full media statement from Minster Woods (external link)

  • 2020 Kāinga Ora Board appointments

    A new Board has been finalised to guide Kāinga Ora over the next three years. Housing Minister Dr Megan Woods has increased the number of Board members from six to eight, reflecting the importance and breadth of the role Kāinga Ora plays

  • Wastewater upgrade prevents sewage flowing into harbour

    , improving te taiao (the environment) and enabling much-needed new homes to be built. Around 40,000m 3 of raw sewage will now be prevented from flowing into