Election 2020 - Party Policies - Housing - Social Housing
25th Jul 20, 5:55am
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- Ensure that Kāinga Ora – Homes and Communities has resources to increase its rate of acquisition and building of public houses to meet current and projected need, as well as maintaining and upgrading existing houses.
- Ensure that new public housing is designed in collaboration with local communities, uses universal design principles and sustainable and intelligent building practices, and is integrated sensitively within the community near facilities and services that meet the needs of whānau/families
- Establish a cap on rents at 25% of income for low income social housing tenants.
- Give priority for social housing to people who are living in extremely substandard or overcrowded accommodation and those at high risk of extremely poor outcomes from a lack of sufficient housing.
- Work with local authorities to require financial contributions for large developments to help build affordable housing for low income households.
- Urgently address the current shortfall of secure, affordable and appropriate housing and support where there is severe, systemic shortfall, such as those living with, and recovering from, mental illness and addictions, and those recently released from prison.
- Read more here and here.
- Funding 8000 new public and transitional homes, which will provide a significant boost to the construction sector and wider economy and take the number of new public and transitional houses we’ve provided to around 17,000.
- Read more here.
- Allowing social housing tenants to buy their homes through a rent-to-own or shared equity scheme.
- Empowering Community Housing Providers to build more social houses by setting aside $1 billion from Kāinga Ora’s borrowing facility for them to access.
- Read more here.
- Continue to build more social housing
- Read more here.
- Explore two ownership models. Firstly, we will offer significant subsidies to not-for-profits, charities, and cultural organisations that want to build and own social housing. This will include gifting or long-term leasing of government land (primarily Kāinga Ora land), and guaranteeing access to low-interest loans. Secondly, we will explore European-style cooperative ownership models, which can remove barriers to home ownership and provide better social connection between neighbours. Our aim is to then develop a model that works in New Zealand.
- Read more here.
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