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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 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 .
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 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]
The HDB Hub at Toa Payoh, headquarters of the Housing & Development Board of Singapore. HDB flats in Jurong West. The Housing & Development Board (HDB; often referred to as the Housing Board), is a statutory board under the Ministry of National Development responsible for the public housing in Singapore.
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]
HDB residences in Bishan town. Public housing in Singapore is subsidised, built, and managed by the government of Singapore.Starting in the 1930s, the country's first public housing was built by the Singapore Improvement Trust (SIT) in a similar fashion to contemporaneous British public housing projects, and housing for the resettlement of squatters was built from the late 1950s.
In Singapore, the public housing program, particularly the planning and development of new public housing and the allocation of rental units and resale of existing ownership units, is managed by the Housing and Development Board. Day-to-day management of public housing communities has been delegated to Town Councils headed by the local members ...