Election 2017 - Party Policies - Housing - Healthy Homes
27th May 17, 9:37am
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Healthy Homes
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- Revise the New Zealand Building Code to ensure inclusion of best practice accessibility and universal design standards for new buildings.
- Restore funding to Warm Up NZ to upgrade houses through insulation and clean heating devices.
- Implement a Warrant of Fitness and star system for rental properties to make sure all homes are liveable.
- Read more here and here.
- Assist homeowners and landlords to make their houses warm and healthy to live in with grants of up to $2,000 towards upgrading insulation and heating.
- Eliminating the speculators’ tax loophole and redirecting the savings into home insulation to assist with making 600,000 homes warmer and healthy to live in.
- Set standards that will require all rental properties to meet proper standards in: insulation, heating, ventilation, draught stopping, and drainage.
- Introduce a Winter Energy Payment for people receiving superannuation or a main benefit.
- Read more here, here and here.
- Promote ‘wood first’ policy that achieves better quality housing options.
- Expand the Kainga Ora approach with the introduction of a ‘Well Housing’ initiative. We will use data to identify whānau in substandard living arrangements and work with intermediaries to target and co-ordinate a range of assistance.
- Reintroduce the Drinkable Water Supply fund to ensure every home is attached to a drinkable water supply.
- Take urgent steps to tackle substandard housing and infrastructure in rural and urban areas.
- Read more here.
- Well over 300,000 homes have been insulated under our Warm Up New Zealand insulation and clean heating programme and our commitment to insulate Housing NZ properties.
- Read more here.
- Provide subsidies to insulate 53,000 houses ever year.
- Review building standards to ensure better building quality including earthquake and landslip resistance.
- Require compulsory and adequate insurance cover be acquired by all building owners.
- Read more here.
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