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By Natalia Albert – TOP Candidate for Wellington Central Crikey! If you’ve been contemplating the state of housing in New Zealand, you've probably noticed it's much like trying to play rugby against the All Blacks blindfolded. Every Kiwi dreams of ...

There were 2,757 new homes consented in the month of April 2023, down 26 percent compared with April 2022, according to figures released by Stats NZ today. “April 2023 marks the third consecutive month that the number of homes consented has been ...

Indicative land categorisations across Te-Matau-a-Māui Hawke’s Bay will be a significant step forward for enabling the region to build back safer, stronger, and smarter, say Hawke’s Bay’s leaders. Hastings Mayor, Sandra Hazlehurst, says Councils ...

Combined Residents’ Associations (CRA) Christchurch welcomes the more considered and tailored approach to housing intensification signalled by the National Party, and believes the party’s decision to ditch the blanket one-size-fits-all approach ...

Big Buddy’s generous foundation partner G.J. Gardner Homes has stepped up again despite New Zealand’s tough building climate to build an incredible fourth home to support boys without dads in their lives. GJ’s Papakura team is building a stunning ...

In the last year of a second term in government. the election outcome shouldn’t even be close. All that’s required for a competent Opposition to be streets ahead in the polls, is an ability to look like a credible government-in-waiting. Instead, ...

Intensification Done Well Character Coalition urges reasoned action on housing density. In an election year about-turn, the National Party’s rethink of support for the National Policy Statement on Urban Development does not get a resounding thumbs-up ...

The Green Party is urging the Government to take its own advice and come up with a long-term plan to build thousands more public homes. “Our message is clear: now is the time to commit to a long-term plan to build the homes we need,” says Green ...

ACT New Zealand Housing spokesperson Brooke van Velden welcomed National Party Leader Christopher Luxon’s admission that National ’got MDRS (housing density) wrong’. Ms van Velden said, “These comments, made at a meeting in Birkenhead today, are ...

Community Housing Aotearoa CEO Paul Gilberd welcomed over 500 attendees at the opening of the 3-day CHA Conference Making the shift from crisis to transformational change, in Ōtautahi Christchurch today. “We care enough to tackle deep social issues, ...