Tag: Housing crisis
The housing u-turn that wasn’t
It must be an election year. Ministers are lining up to throw their biggest flops onto the policy bonfire. Even better when it was...
Housing Trust calls for ‘granny flat’ reform tweaks amid housing crisis
The Waiheke Community Housing Trust held a hui at the Waiheke Bowling Club last Wednesday 23 July focused on a ‘no-brainer,’ ‘pragmatic’ solution to...
Minister looking into granny flat flaw
Tama Potaka may be about to make your granny happy.
Existing district plan rules mean that developers can build small units for tourists, but not...
Joining the dots
For all the difficulties and evidence, we don’t have a housing shortage on Waiheke or even a shortage of land.
It’s a distribution crisis that...
Chlöe hears about islanders’ rental woes
The Green Party announced its “pledge to renters” this week, promising to introduce a Renter’s Rights Bill within 100 days if the party is...
Community Housing Trust development bought by Man O’ War
The Waiheke Community Housing Trust is reluctantly selling it’s affordable housing property in Onetangi to Man O’ War Vineyards as the worsening global economy...
Tenants evicted from emergency accommodation
Waiheke’s only emergency accommodation provider is having to slash the number of people on site after its wastewater system was deemed unacceptable.
More than half...
Tackling Waiheke’s housing crisis
The Waiheke Local Board recently put $10,000 towards the provision of emergency and transitional housing on the island. The grant will be used by...
Island offerings for South Auckland homeless
One Love Waiheke has been inundated with food to deliver to homeless people staying at Te Puea Marae in Mangere.
Jeanine Clarkin and sisters Theresa...
Comment: Halls of residence a good model for citizens living alone
We don’t build houses for single people but the 800-year-old
example of the Oxford Hall of Residence might be the solution to our problem...
