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  • Students lay the foundation for a career in trades

    The Kāinga Ora Downer cadetship programme is winding up another successful year teaming school students up with maintenance contractors to learn the skills of a trade. The three school holiday intakes saw a total of 54 aspiring students come together from Auckland Seventh Day Adventist High School, Southern Cross College

  • Kāinga Ora and Spotless celebrate biggest ever cohort of young Māngere cadets

    Seventeen-year-old sisters Tarial, Salote and Aliitasi Seuteni were busier than usual during the term one school holidays; they spent them getting up early and learning how to wire in lights and install ovens. Cadetship Programme. Under the programme, Year 12 and 13 students from Māngere College, De La Salle, Southern Cross and, Auckland Seventh-day

  • Cadetship paving way for young women in construction

    It’s not often you find high school students willing to give up their school holidays to do work experience, but for Sisilia, a young woman from Mangere, the decision was easy. A year 11 student at Southern Cross Campus, Sisilia aged 16, recently graduated from her second round on the Spotless Cadetship Programme. The programme, a

  • Kāinga Ora solar programme awarded for breaking new ground

    The award-winning Kāinga Ora renewable energy programme is leaving a legacy for both social housing customers and New Zealand’s electricity market. Winners of Energy Project of the Year at the 2024 NZ Energy Excellence Awards, the programme is responsible for installing solar panels on hundreds of social

  • Kāinga Ora and property developer Winton partner for Lakeside development

    Kāinga Ora – Homes and Communities, and property developer Winton have entered into a Land Supply partnership agreement to deliver more than 1300 homes over a 7-8-year period at Lakeside, in Te Kauwhata, Waikato. notes that the development is situated in a growth zone, in a strategic Southern Corridor location, and is fully consented, and ready for immediate delivery to

  • Partnership bolsters bid for ‘critical’ iwi housing aspirations

    Hapū in Motupōhue Bluff want to provide more affordable homes for their community. A partnership with Kāinga Ora could help them reach those aspirations. . Nationally, Māori make up 16.5%. “We need to be able to provide for our people so that they can remain here in a place that is safe and warm and creates

  • Double win for public housing at property awards

    Kāinga Ora has taken out two awards at the 2022 Property Industry Awards.

    The awards event is run by Property Council New Zealand and celebrates successful delivery of projects, along with excellence in design and innovation in the

  • Ground issues, trees and storm damage

    If you have any issues with ground maintenance, tree maintenance, or problems with storm damage, contact us. out or contact us about any tree, root or branch issues. You can also get information about the maintenance of trees from your local   Citizen’s Advice

  • More affordable homes for Tāmaki

    More first home buyers in Auckland are waking up in their new home. development provide home ownership opportunities for individuals and whānau who would otherwise be priced out of the market. It is not just about the number of homes

  • Breathing new life into a ‘star’ of social housing history

    A slice of social housing history has been retained with the opening of newly-refurbished apartments in Dunedin. Plan – released by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern last week – also outlines between 150 and 250 more for the southern region of the South Island. “As well as that

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