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  • KiwiSaver first-home withdrawal

    If you have been a member of KiwiSaver for at least 3 years, you may be able to make a withdrawal from your savings to put towards buying your first home. City 400,000 80,000   The withdrawal is administered by the KiwiSaver scheme provider or relevant complying fund manager and if approved the payments of the

  • Tenant home ownership

    If you are currently a Kāinga Ora tenant, you may be eligible for a grant to go towards purchasing the home you’re living in. KiwiSaver first-home withdrawal , if you are eligible to buy the tenancy you are living in. If you are a tenant and interested in buying your house either

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    Loan can make it easier for you to get into your first home by lowering the required deposit to 5%. KiwiSaver first-home withdrawal If you have been a member of

  • First Home Loan

    A First Home Loan can make it easier for you to get into your first home by lowering the required deposit to 5%. provided by KiwiSaver if you have been contributing regularly for at least three years, you may be eligible for a KiwiSaver first-home withdrawal. First-home

  • Home ownership resources

    Download our product brochures and access useful links to websites that can help you through the path to home ownership. , 25 KB] KiwiSaver Defence Force Superannuation Scheme (DFSS) application form [PDF, 434 KB] KiwiSaver First-Home Withdrawal form [PDF, 382 KB] First Home Loan Get

  • 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. chance to gain hands-on experience with Panorama Painters. “I currently take a building course at the MIT Tec Park in Manukau, and this programme has helped me see a

  • UCOL | Te Pūkenga students design community spaces for Kāinga Ora customers

    Kāinga Ora is upgrading 24 apartments at Brentwood Avenue in Palmerston North to make them warmer, drier and healthier. Zealand Diploma in Architectural Technology second-year students visited the Brentwood Avenue site in September to look at potential community spaces. They

  • House built at Rimutaka Prison for a whānau in need

    One of the first houses to be built at Rimutaka Prison, as part of a partnership between Kāinga Ora and WelTec, will soon be transported to its permanent site. themselves by earning skills and qualifications which can help them gain good long-term jobs when they are released”. “This in turn gives them a better chance

  • Thrift and connection – Diana inspires her neighbours

    Avid knitter Diana has discovered an innovative way to use discarded plastic - she knits it into eye-catching bags and phone cases, which she gifts and sells within her community. joy to know that I’m making things that will have a second chance at life. Necessity is the mother of invention,” says Diana. The long-time Kāinga Ora customer

  • Building a pipeline of apprentices

    Kāinga Ora has helped more than 70 young people into an apprenticeship with the assistance of training and pastoral care providers. challenges, but he prefers to look on the bright side. “It’s given us a chance to pause and reflect on what’s really important – family, friends and finding

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