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When records began in 1974, new homes in New Zealand had an average floor area of 120 m 2 (1,290 sq ft). Average new home sizes rose to peak at 200 m 2 (2,150 sq ft) in 2010, before falling to 158 m 2 (1,700 sq ft) in 2019. [17] In 1966 the New Zealand Encyclopedia recognised seven basic designs of New Zealand houses. [18]
KiwiBuild logo. KiwiBuild was a real estate development scheme pursued by the Sixth Labour Government of New Zealand.It began in 2018, with the aim of building 100,000 homes by 2028 to increase housing affordability in New Zealand.
The Sixth Labour Government, elected in 2017, formally moved to stop the sell-off of state houses by issuing an instruction to Housing New Zealand to cancel the sale of the homes in December 2017. The Ministry has listed pressures in the private rental market, population growth and decline in home ownership as key factors.
An Ordnance Survey cut mark in the UK Occasionally a non-vertical face, and a slightly different mark, was used. The term benchmark, bench mark, or survey benchmark originates from the chiseled horizontal marks that surveyors made in stone structures, into which an angle iron could be placed to form a "bench" for a leveling rod, thus ensuring that a leveling rod could be accurately ...
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.
New Zealand society as a whole continues to dream the dream of owner-occupied home-ownership despite changing economic and environmental conditions. The local real-estate sector promotes myths of moving onto (and up) the property ladder [9] accordingly, and New Zealand politicians foster the idea of a stable democracy rooted in property-ownership.
Designed in the modernistic style by Hobe Sound architect Scott Hughes of Hughes Umbanhowar and built by Benchmark Homes, it features an exterior of glass, wood, stucco and aluminum. On April 18, 2012, the American Institute of Architects 's Florida Chapter added Beach Road 2 to its list of Florida Architecture: 100 Years. 100 Places . [ 2 ]
The leaky homes crisis is an ongoing construction and legal crisis in New Zealand concerning timber-framed homes built from 1988 to 2004 that were not fully weather-tight. . The problems often include the decay of timber framing which, in extreme cases, have made buildings structurally unsou