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Housing New Zealand’s HomeStart grant and Welcome Home Loan house price caps for new builds in areas outside the main centres are increasing from $450,000 to $500,000 to match the KiwiBuild price cap, Housing and Urban Development Minister Phil Twyford announced today.

  • Hon Phil Twyford
  • Housing and Urban Development

Letting fees are prohibited from today after new legislation came into effect, Housing and Urban Development Minister Phil Twyford says. 

  • Hon Phil Twyford
  • Housing and Urban Development

The first KiwiBuild homes for central Wellington are on the way following an agreement with The Wellington Company to build a new apartment building in Mount Cook, Housing and Urban Development Minister Phil Twyford has announced.

  • Hon Phil Twyford
  • Housing and Urban Development

The regulation change allowing Housing NZ to make discretionary grants to those who were wrongly evicted for methamphetamine contamination has been made and the first 55 people are being paid from today, Housing and Urban Development Minister Phil Twyford announced.

  • Hon Phil Twyford
  • Housing and Urban Development

The KiwiBuild Unit has received 102 responses for its Invitation to Pitch for offsite manufacturers, Minister of Housing and Urban Development Phil Twyford announced today.

  • Hon Phil Twyford
  • Housing and Urban Development

The Housing and Urban Development Authority will have cut-through powers to build quality state and affordable homes and create thriving master-planned communities, announced Minister for Housing and Urban Development Phil Twyford.

  • Hon Phil Twyford
  • Housing and Urban Development

The first KiwiBuild homes in New Plymouth are expected to be completed in mid-2019, Minister for Housing and Urban Development Phil Twyford announced today.

  • Hon Phil Twyford
  • Housing and Urban Development

To improve housing opportunities for Māori, a dedicated Māori Housing Unit will be established and Minister Nanaia Mahuta will be appointed the Associate Minister of Housing and Urban Development (Māori Housing) to lead it, Housing and Urban Development Minister Phil Twyford announced today.

  • Hon Phil Twyford
  • Housing and Urban Development

Minister of Housing and Urban Development Phil Twyford and Auckland Mayor Phil Goff today announced a partnership that will fund $91 million of roading and wastewater infrastructure to support the building of 9000 homes at Wainui, north of Auckland.

  • Hon Phil Twyford
  • Housing and Urban Development

A new transitional housing development, which opened in Point England today, will provide much needed transitional housing for around 28 families each year, says Associate Minister of Housing and Urban Development Jenny Salesa.

  • Hon Jenny Salesa
  • Housing and Urban Development

There are 1300 more households in public housing than a year ago, Housing and Urban Development Minister Phil Twyford announced today.

  • Hon Phil Twyford
  • Housing and Urban Development

The first 18 KiwiBuild families have been welcomed to their new homes by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Housing and Urban Development Minister Phil Twyford and the local community.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Hon Phil Twyford
  • Prime Minister
  • Housing and Urban Development

Minister of Housing and Urban Development Phil Twyford today announced that the ballot will open next week for the first KiwiBuild homes to be built in the Waikato.

  • Hon Phil Twyford
  • Housing and Urban Development

Thank you for inviting me here this evening to speak to you. Thank you Andrew for your introduction and thank you Cliff Seque and the Otago Property Investors’ Association for hosting us in Dunedin.

  • Hon Phil Twyford
  • Housing and Urban Development

A customised van that will provide free mobile laundry and shower services for rough sleepers across Auckland launched in Onehunga this morning.

  • Hon Phil Twyford
  • Housing and Urban Development

The Government has exceeded its target to have 1,500 additional places for the homeless this winter, Housing and Urban Development Minister Phil Twyford announced today.

  • Hon Phil Twyford
  • Housing and Urban Development

The new Ministry of Housing and Urban Development was opened today by Housing and Urban Development Minister Phil Twyford.

  • Hon Phil Twyford
  • Housing and Urban Development

Minister of Housing and Urban Development Phil Twyford today announced the first South Island KiwiBuild development in Wanaka, where there will be 211 KiwiBuild homes built over the next two years.

  • Hon Phil Twyford
  • Housing and Urban Development

A new public housing development to be built in Onehunga has been designed with disabled people in mind and will cater for any sort of tenant, Housing and Urban Development Minister Phil Twyford announced today.

  • Hon Phil Twyford
  • Housing and Urban Development

Changes are being made to public housing tenancy reviews to ensure vulnerable tenants are protected and more places are available for those that need them, Housing and Urban Development Minister Phil Twyford announced today.

  • Hon Phil Twyford
  • Housing and Urban Development

Two hundred more Housing NZ homes in the Hutt Valley will receive a thermal upgrade, Housing and Urban Development Minister Phil Twyford announced today.

  • Hon Phil Twyford
  • Housing and Urban Development

Three new community housing developments officially opened in West and South Auckland today, which will provide desperately needed homes for up to 30 households.

  • Hon Phil Twyford
  • Hon Jenny Salesa
  • Housing and Urban Development

Minister of Housing and Urban Development Phil Twyford and Auckland Mayor Phil Goff today confirmed $339.2 million of 10 year interest-free loans to Auckland Council to support major infrastructure projects in Redhills and Whenuapai in Auckland’s northwest.

  • Hon Phil Twyford
  • Housing and Urban Development

Housing NZ’s new social objectives to provide decent housing, be a fair and compassionate landlord and to help sustain tenancies will be enshrined in legislation, Housing and Urban Development Minister Phil Twyford has announced.

  • Hon Phil Twyford
  • Housing and Urban Development