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  • Redhill state home provided foundation for whānau to thrive

    The door is always open at Jeanette and Scotty’s home as they welcome you to sit at their kitchen table where Jeanette has lovingly set-up kai. Kāinga Ora housing support manager in Papakura, Chris credits the values his parents installed in him and his siblings growing up in their state home to where

  • 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. , Papakura High School, Alfriston College, James Cook High School, Otahuhu College and Waiuku College. In term two, Azeala from Alfriston College jumped at the

  • I never thought I’d need help with housing

    When a house fire left Ngarangi and her grandchildren with nothing, they found Kāinga Ora was there to help them start over. donated new beds and a lounge suite, Ngarangi devoted herself to house-hunting. Emergency housing was offered but because pets were not permitted, it would have

  • Stepping up the response to housing need

    Kāinga Ora Chief Executive Officer Andrew McKenzie sets out three new approaches the agency is adopting to meeting familiar housing challenges. No human need is more fundamental than housing. A home is the base we build our lives on, and at Kāinga Ora we help meet this need for all New Zealanders. In

  • Sunfield development not selected by Kāinga Ora

    Urban Development Act administrator Kāinga Ora has not selected the proposed Sunfield development in Papakura, Auckland, for assessment as a Specified Development Project (SDP) under the Urban Development Act (UDA) at this time.

  • Specified Development Projects

    The Urban Development Act 2020 empowers Kāinga Ora to initiate, facilitate, and undertake urban development that contributes to sustainable, inclusive, and thriving communities. Porirua) and provided its project assessment reports and recommendations to the Minister of Housing and Minister of Finance (joint Ministers). In December 2024, the

  • 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. 1905 – 1919: Early state housing In 1905 , Prime Minister Richard Seddon introduced the 'Workers’ Dwellings Act, leading to the construction of the first state

  • Supported Housing

    Supported Housing brings together publicly funded housing with support services that are essential to the wellbeing of people and whānau living in the home. Supported Housing provides invaluable housing and support for people with intellectual disabilities, physically disabled people, people at risk of becoming

  • Housing statistics

    Each quarter, Kāinga Ora publishes three sets of information for our managed stock,vacant properties and homes removed from service. To help meet demand for public housing, Kāinga Ora has underway the largest state housing build programme in decades with thousands of new homes delivered in

  • Boost to housing in Wairoa

    Wairoa’s housing stock is about to be transformed with earthworks on the Tihitihi Pā subdivision now underway. The two-hectare, 38-lot development, will sit between Kitchener and McLean Streets providing a range of much-needed new housing for whānau. The residential