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State housing is a system of public housing in New Zealand, offering low-cost rental housing to residents on low to moderate incomes. Some 69,000 state houses are managed by Kāinga Ora – Homes and Communities , [ 1 ] most of which are owned by the Crown .
On 1 October 2019 Kāinga Ora was formed by the merger of Housing New Zealand with its development subsidiary Homes, Land, Community (HLC) and the KiwiBuild Unit from the Ministry of Housing. Kāinga Ora is a large and important Crown entity, with assets of $45 billion and over $2.5 billion of expenditure each year.
State housing had a big influence on the way homes were built in New Zealand from the 1940s to the late 1960s. [27] The 1970s saw several changes to housing construction. New Zealand's metrication between 1969 and 1976 saw construction move from imperial to metric units.
The property bubble in New Zealand is a major national economic and social issue. Since the early 1990s, house prices in New Zealand have risen considerably faster than incomes, [1] putting increasing pressure on public housing providers as fewer households have access to housing on the private market.
It is the New Zealand government’s primary advisor on housing and urban development, providing advice on policy and legislation, collecting and sharing data and insights to inform decisions, funding a range of programmes to deliver more housing and urban development where it is most needed, regulating community housing providers and ...
The State Advances Corporation was a government agency within the New Zealand government. Established in 1903 as the Government Advances to Settlers Office, it was disestablished in 1974 when its functions were transferred to the Housing Corporation of New Zealand.
Star Flats at Ngatiapa Street, Strathmore, Wellington Star Flats in Ōrākei, Auckland (viewed from rear), built 1960.. Star Flats (so-called because of their butterfly roof and cross-like shape when seen from above) refers to a form of medium-density state housing in New Zealand.
The Ministry of Housing was established in 1991 by the Fourth National Government as a policy advice agency alongside Housing New Zealand Corporation, which managed the state housing portfolio. [1] The Ministry of Social Policy, later the Ministry of Social Development (MSD), gained a housing policy role in the late 1990s. [1]