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  • Housing Acceleration Fund to increase supply of homes

    The Government today announced its Housing Acceleration Fund to help increase the supply of houses and improve affordability for home buyers and renters. deliver a broader range of affordable housing options for rental and home ownership. The Housing Acceleration Fund will be complemented by: a Kāinga Ora Land

  • Budget 2020 - More public housing to be built

    Through Budget 2020 the Government is investing more funding to help deliver 8,000 new public housing and transitional housing places so that more New Zealanders can have a place to call home that is warm, dry and safe. households who cannot access or sustain a tenancy in the private rental market for a range of reasons.  Public houses are owned or leased by Kāinga Ora or by

  • A home to help the healing

    After a tough year fighting cancer, Jean is overjoyed to have recently moved into a new five-bedroom home in Rotorua with her children. family, she’s well aware how lucky she is and that she wouldn’t have been able to manage the cost of a private rental. “In the past we’ve had to share bedrooms

  • History of State Housing

    New Zealand has played a significant role in public housing since 1894, with government-led initiatives shaping communities and improving living conditions. rental houses for inner-city workers. His goal was to counter exploitative landlords and improve living standards. However, high rents meant few workers could

  • Kāinga Ora – Homes and Communities: A new approach to meeting key Government priorities

    The establishment of Kāinga Ora – Homes and Communities signals a step-change in the approach to the provision of housing and urban development in New Zealand. a world-class public landlord, providing good quality, warm, dry and healthy rental housing. Their attention will be on building up New Zealand’s stock of

  • Leo dons Santa’s hat this Christmas

    Leo marked the first Christmas in his new home by taking on a very important role – none other than Santa Claus himself! rental which required a lot of work to maintain and keep tidy, so he was thrilled to discover he finally had a Kāinga Ora home. “I was so overjoyed when I got

  • Kāinga Ora to deliver homes for older Aucklanders

    Kāinga Ora will deliver 52 new homes for older Aucklanders through a collaboration with Eke Panuku and Haumaru Housing. wet area bathrooms. With a growing population of people over the age of 65, Tāmaki Makaurau needs more affordable rental housing. The homes at Greenslade

  • Supporting the Pasifika community with a new partnership initiative

    Kāinga Ora, Niuvaka Trust, and the Ministry for Social Development (MSD) are supporting the Pasifika community by providing access to employment opportunities, social housing, and financial assistance. having his leg amputated. Before this, he had been living in a private rental, but his landlord was unwilling to make the necessary modifications for him to

  • Jayne’s on cloud nine in her new whare

    Jayne and her whānau were over the moon to be offered a Kāinga Ora home specifically designed for wheelchair users. They say it’s like being on another planet compared with their last home - a drafty garage. , the family of four – Jayne, Wiremu and their teenage sons – had been staying in a drafty garage belonging to extended family as they couldn’t find a rental with

  • More than 67,000 Kāinga Ora homes now meet Healthy Homes Standards

    As we reach the end of our Healthy Homes delivery programme, 67,535 Kāinga Ora homes now meet Healthy Homes Standards, equating to 99.8% of our tenanted homes required to comply. Healthy Homes Standards were introduced in 2019 to help ensure the quality of all tenanted rental homes throughout New Zealand meet minimum standards for

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