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Tinna’s whimsical garden filling hearts – and tummies

Everyone needs a sanctuary – a place to retreat to when life gets tough. For Christchurch mum Tinna, her sanctuary is the garden she has lovingly created at her Kāinga Ora home, Bush Cottage. vegetables which Tinna uses to make meals for her elderly neighbours each week. She also uses the produce from her garden to help feed the homeless. Tinna’s work

Karakia marks the start of new homes for inner city Wellington

Freezing southerly blasts couldn’t dampen the spirits of those who recently gathered at the Rolleston St site in Mount Cook. will include 20 supported living units which will provide homes and wrap-around services for some of the city’s most vulnerable and homeless people, under the

Kāinga Ora implements new tools to manage disruptive behaviour

Kāinga Ora is strengthening the way it manages disruptive behaviour in its homes, providing increased support and resources to deal with complex cases, while enabling the organisation to address cases more effectively. make a customer homeless; we will move them to another Kāinga Ora home and continue to provide them with the intensive support they need to address the causes

Students brighten Kāinga Ora development with artwork

The creative talents of Kadimah School are on full display outside the Kāinga Ora Greys Avenue development in central Auckland. people who have experienced homelessness. Tenants will have access to onsite medical facilities and 24/7 support services. Kadimah School Principal Sue Meltzer

Work starting soon on new homes at Maraenui

Kāinga Ora – Homes and Communities is starting work soon to deliver 31 new, much needed family homes at Maraenui, Napier. under the Aotearoa New Zealand Homelessness Action Plan (2020-2023), which has been developed to prevent and reduce homelessness and to ensure every New Zealander

Transitional housing villages open in Māngere

Twenty-eight new homes to be used for transitional housing have opened in Māngere. 

Produced using offsite manufacturing, 17 of the homes are situated on Garus Avenue, while the remaining 11 homes are on nearby Cottingham Crescent.  .” The Māngere homes are part of the 1,000 transitional homes announced as part of the Aotearoa New Zealand Homelessness Action Plan, developed to prevent and reduce homelessness in New Zealand.

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. the RSE accommodation that she met the Milo family. They were neighbours for almost a year. The Milo family and their seven children were homeless after also

Home delivery! More transitional homes for Mangere

Twenty-eight new homes to be used for transitional housing are being transported from Waikato to Mangere, to help meet urgent demand in the area for short-term accommodation. part of the 1,000 transitional homes announced as part of the Aotearoa New Zealand Homelessness Action Plan, developed to prevent and reduce homelessness in New

A new home brings new opportunities

Jack’s new home at a Kāinga Ora complex in New Plymouth has been life-changing in more ways than one. As well as having a stable place to call home, the complex’s community room has become the perfect place for Jack to focus on his future and take up new opportunities. the YMCA to be a support worker for homeless people, as I have lived experience. It would be really rewarding.” “I love the community we have at our complex

Ripeka, 71, is a real-life fitness influencer

Whaea Ripeka doesn’t need social media to gain a following, her mana is such that young people follow her wherever she goes. housing nearby. She’d become homeless during the pandemic when her husband William had become unwell with dementia, and she was on crutches after injuring her hip

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