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  • A safe haven for a Tauranga mum and daughters

    “It feels like a safe haven for us” says mum of two Chevelle, who earlier this year moved into a new Kāinga Ora home in Tauranga. decided to enter the world very quickly and was born in one of them. “She just popped out” says Chevelle, who named her youngest after the Greek goddess of

  • Marvellous Margaret celebrates 100th birthday

    It’s a very special week for Margaret, a long-time Kāinga Ora customer. Surrounded by her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren – many travelling from overseas for the special occasion – Margaret celebrated an incredible milestone: her 100th birthday. In 1923, as the youngest of 11 children, Margaret – or Peg or Peggy as most people call her – was born in Waitara (Taranaki) and moved into her first Kāinga

  • 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. for me to help out there. I’ve been able to give back even with my illness and be around good people who have no judgement.” The busy Mum also works part-time at

  • Kāinga Ora brings unique solar sharing system to Northland

    Kāinga Ora has brought world leading solar sharing technology to Whangārei, with customers at its Anzac Road complex among the first in the country to benefit. electricity to apartment buildings. Kāinga Ora renewable energy lead, Jennifer Van der Merwe says the system is estimated to reduce customer power bills by around

  • Kāinga Ora site helps with eradicating pests in Wellington

    With ground investigation starting on Kāinga Ora’s Arlington site, we had a stack of old fence palings needing a new home. 40 volunteers from around Wellington worked together, to reuse the palings and wood sourced from around the neighbourhood to build 400 wooden tunnels Volunteers

  • 35 tamariki move into long-term homes

    The first stage of a new housing development in Te Hapara Gisborne, will see thirty-five tamariki moving out of unsuitable housing into nine new, long-term homes. . Three of them attend Te Hapara school, with the youngest starting there next year. “They have been running around school telling all their mates they are moving

  • Kaliopasi family enjoy a new home for Christmas

    Last week nine members of the Kaliopasi family moved into a new five-bedroom home that was built by students at Unitec in Auckland under a trade academy partnership with Kāinga Ora. The 143sqm home was trucked to Gisborne earlier this year. love that; they can’t live without their grandkids around.” Sela and her husband have been sharing a room with her youngest sister who is still at primary

  • MATES in Construction partnership extended

    We are pleased to have re-cemented our partnership with the MATES in Construction suicide prevention programme for another two years. Awareness Training – a foundation of the MATES programme. Victoria McArthur, CEO at MATES in Construction, says, “The relationship we have built with Kāinga Ora

  • The taste of sustainability

    A simple gesture from one of our build partners in Christchurch has left a positive and healthy taste in the mouths of our customers. for our customers to use. The garden beds are dotted around the central Christchurch development. Fusion Homes not only built the beds but filled them with soil

  • New Mangere development promises tiny carbon footprint and power bills

    Kāinga Ora has taken its first step towards low carbon public housing, receiving design endorsement to build 18 homes to Passive House standard in Mangere, Auckland. industry. Chelydra Percy, BRANZ CEO, says the desire to take meaningful climate and environmental action is evident within the construction sector