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• 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.

• Māngere Community Enviro Hub: ‘From picking up rubbish, to planting out trees, to feeding the people’

  Mangere community groups have taken a site provided by Kāinga Ora and grown it into a space to connect and protect their environment.

• Ruby a gem of the local community

  Kāinga Ora customer Ruby is paddling away happily on a ‘waka of change’.
  
  Ruby says she has turned her life around in the past five years since she moved from emergency housing into her Kāinga Ora home with her now 10-year-old and 17-year-old sons.

• The ‘magic’ of Mangere house relocations

  Four homes vanished from Mangere overnight, reappearing the next morning as career opportunities for rangatahi.

• Kāinga Ora keeping communities informed

  An information session held recently in Pakuranga provided an opportunity for new tenants, neighbours, and members of the local community to meet and learn more more about the new Kāinga Ora homes that have been delivered over the past year.

• Family put financial challenges behind them and set sights on first home

  After struggling for years to keep on top of their bills, Larry and Lave have sorted their finances and set their sights on buying their own home.

• Bookworm Janette opened a library for her neighbours

  When Janette moved into her new Kāinga Ora home, she set up a library for all her neighbours.

• Edith reaches 100th birthday milestone

  For 100-year old Edith, the secret to a long life is simple; drink lots of water, eat your vegetables, and try to be kind.

• Solving the problem of multiplying cats and dogs

  Cats and dogs can help make a house a home, but if your furry friends are not ‘fixed’ you might end up hounded by the pitter-patter of too many tiny paws.

• 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.