The Green Party has today unveiled its housing plan, which aims to get the record-high number of people off the social housing waiting list, while improving the size and quality of the rental market. The goal is to clear the social housing list - currently about 18,000 - within five years. That would include $250 million in seed funding for "newly built community non-profit rental homes". "This funding will be available to support Kāinga Ora to build homes directly, and to contract building to community housing providers." "Successive governments have sold off too much social and community housing while letting the homes we do have fall into disrepair," she said.

Source: Otago Daily Times August 09, 2020 02:03 UTC