The first tranche of units in a new 90-home community housing project developed by Ōtautahi Community Housing Trust in Christchurch are ready to open. New Zealand's community housing regulator has lacked sufficient oversight of the sector and failed to properly engage with providers, according to a newly-released report. The Community Housing Regulatory Authority was set up in 2014 to register and regulate community housing providers and grow the social housing sector. The KPMG assessment also highlighted more wide-ranging concerns with the Government’s approach to community housing, saying a growing focus on providing emergency and transitional housing had reduced attention paid to the social housing sector. The community housing regulator was “over-run” and not getting the resources it needed, while the long delays in completing its monitoring functions were a concern.

Source: Stuff April 08, 2021 20:03 UTC