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  • Holidays Act Payments

    close to them dies. alternative holiday: This is provided to an employee for working on a public holiday that would otherwise be a normal working day. public

  • 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%. Home Ownership holiday hours The Home Ownership team will be out of the office over the holiday period, from 12pm Wednesday, 24 December 2025, returning 8am on

  • Teaming up to provide Christmas cheer

    This Christmas, Kāinga Ora – Homes and Communities and Wellington City Mission are teaming up to provide some of our most vulnerable tenants a Christmas or New Year treat. Valley and Wellington City. “We are aware the end of year holiday period can be a tough time for many kiwis” says Jackie, Kāinga Ora, Regional Manager. “Working

  • 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

  • Make an Official Information Act (OIA) Request

    The Official Information Act 1982 (OIA) allows you to make a request for official information held by New Zealand public service agencies, including Kāinga Ora. the operations of Kāinga Ora. How will we deal with your request? We will acknowledge your request, usually within 24 hours and respond no later than 20 working

  • Kāinga Ora Construction Plus students relish on-site work experience

    Cejaye Ikuia has known she wanted to work in the construction industry since she learned wood technology back at Intermediate School. Like eight other young people across Auckland, the 17-year-old jumped at the opportunity to don work boots and a hard hat and spend her school holidays on a

  • A bright future for award-winning apprentice Braedyn

    Growing up with the stability of a Kāinga Ora home has allowed 20-year-old Braedyn to put down roots and begin a promising career in the neighbourhood he calls home. holiday, Braedyn stepped up to manage the CNC (Automated aluminium milling) machine which was far beyond what we could have expected of him at that stage. We were

  • Construction Plus – students swap school bags for hard hats

    While their peers relaxed during the recent school holidays, nine students from across Auckland donned hard hats and spent the fortnight learning about civil construction. The students were participating in the Kāinga Ora Construction Plus Mahi Ora programme – whereby secondary school students spend their holidays working on

  • 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. , while encouraging employment and providing a positive activity for the school holidays. “My first cadetship during term 2 was daunting,” said Sisilia. “I was shy

  • More Palmerston North whānau to celebrate Christmas in new homes

    As we approach the holiday season, more individuals and families in Palmerston North will celebrate Christmas in a warm, dry and stable home. the right housing match. “We’ve been working hard to move as many families as possible into the new homes before Christmas. It is rewarding to know that more

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