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A survey showing nearly a third of secondary students in northern New Zealand experience housing deprivation shows the need to urgently review the accommodation supplement and increase the Family Tax Credit, Children’s Commissioner Andrew Becroft says. ...

James Widgery and Brook Turner at the NZIA Local Architecture Awards Dinner Visionwest Community Trust and Strachan Group Architects (SGA) have joined forces in a youth housing project that has seen the creation of quality sleepout accommodation to provide ...

Wednesday, 2 June 2021, 5:57 am Housing deprivation is common among New Zealand secondary school students, according to a large-scale survey. As many as 29 percent of students experienced at least one form of housing deprivation in the previous 12 months, according to the Youth19 Housing Deprivation Brief from the University of Auckland and Victoria University of Wellington. The data are from a survey in 2019 of 7,721 adolescents from 49 Auckland, Northland and Waikato schools and kura kaupa...

Treasury’s prediction that annual house price growth will fall to just 0.9% in the coming year is looking less and less likely as the country rolls into another month of unrelenting housing demand and strong sales prices, says one real estate ...

The Salvation Army is setting a high bar for social housing. We are not only building desperately needed homes for those with a serious and severe need for housing, but we are supporting whānau to live fulfilling lives within an inclusive community, ...

Takai Here Tāngata has been announced as the name of the first housing development driven by an innovative housing partnership between Hutt City Council, Kahungunu Whānau Services, Te Rūnanganui o Te Āti Awa, and Council-controlled organisation ...

The research is a joint project, between BRANZ and the University of Auckland longitudinal study Growing Up in New Zealand. It involved children in the Growing Up in New Zealand study collecting temperature and humidity data at home and school over two days. This new detailed indoor environment information was linked to the multiple pieces of health information collected from the children directly when they were eight years old. The linked information showed that an indoor temperature of betw...

Thursday, 20 May 2021, 3:36 pm Child Poverty Action Group welcomes the income support increases announced today by the Government, saying the rises will be a good step towards income adequacy for many children in need. "The changes today are useful if insufficient. Our modelling shows the changes fall short of liveable incomes, but these increases should still be high enough to make a difference for many families," said CPAG spokesperson Professor Emeritus Innes Asher. "This holds particularly...

Thursday, 20 May 2021, 3:28 pm Public Service Association members will celebrate today’s Budget boosts for beneficiaries and low-paid workers, and the announcement of new programmes to tackle the housing crisis. The government has committed to raise weekly benefit rates between $32 and $55 per adult, by April 1 2022 reaching or exceeding the recommendations of 2019’s Welfare Expert Advisory Group. "PSA members choose careers in agencies like the Ministry of Social Development because they ...

· $242.8 million for Māori health initiatives, including setting up the new Māori Health Authority. · $150 million in Māori Education to support Māori boarding schools and lift kōhanga reo teachers’ pay. · $42 million to build a sustainable Māori media sector and invest in programme content. · $15 million for Māori tourism. · $14.8 million for the implementation of the Māori language strategy. Investing in the wellbeing of Māori will drive both our economic and social recovery f...