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    • City Housing Policy Changes
      • 17 Feb 2010
      • Downtown Community Ministry
      • Wellingtonians should comment our Council for staying firmly in the business of social housing provision. Their draft policy for the city’s social housing service describes a vision of affordable and safe accommodation for Wellingtonians in need. It also provides details on the Housing Upgrade Project (HUP) with Housing New Zealand.
      • Tagged as:
      • housing
      • wellington city council

    • Few Rights for Boarding House Tenants
      • 4 Feb 2010
      • Downtown Community Ministry
      • Some boarding houses in Wellington appear to be cashing in on big events in the city by evicting their residents at short notice to make room for out-of-town visitors. Downtown Community Ministry is aware of three instances where tenants have been given less than a day to vacate because their room was to be let to someone else.
      • Tagged as:
      • housing

    • Affordable Housing
      • 23 Jul 2009
      • Eye of the Fish
      • It’s nice to be able to talk about good things happening in the Wellington architectural market, and the recent announcement in the DomPost about the new replacements for the WCC Regent Park flats is, to me, really good news.
      • Tagged as:
      • housing

    • Social Housing Upgrade: Work Starts, Plans Unveiled
      • 23 Jul 2009
      • Wellington City Council
      • Construction has started at Newtown's Te Ara Hou Flats, the first Wellington City Council housing complex to be improved under a massive upgrade that's a joint initiative between the Council and the Government.
      • Tagged as:
      • housing
      • newtown

    • “More like a private home than a rental”
      • 12 Jul 2009
      • Sisters of Compassion
      • “More like a private home than a rental” is what many tenants are saying about the pensioner units that Compassion Housing manage in central Upper Hutt, Wellington. The Sisters of Compassion purchased all of the Upper Hutt City Council’s pensioner unit’s way back in June 2000.
      • Tagged as:
      • housing
      • hutt valley

    • Warm winter for Wellingtonians
      • 24 Jun 2009
      • Capital Times
      • WANT to insulate your house? It will be even cheaper after July. Greater Wellington Regional Council is implementing a voluntary targeted rate to help homeowners who live in houses built before 2000 to insulate their houses. The idea takes the government healthy homes grant a step further.
      • Tagged as:
      • conservation
      • housing

    • Tenant suggestions offered to Council
      • 22 Apr 2009
      • Downtown Community Ministry
      • With Wellington City Council holding a design competition on modernising its housing units Downtown Community Ministry thought it’d ask some clients for their input. “Overwhelmingly we were told that people wanted flats that were light and dry. Things like insulation to keep them warmer throughout winter were at the top of the list,” says Community Outreach Worker Kate Bell.
      • Tagged as:
      • housing
      • wellington city council

    • The Natural: Playing with Pigeons
      • 17 Dec 2008
      • Inspirationaltv - Wellington video blog
      • The Natural looks at the times when humans and animals interact, and help each other. This episode: A cafe in Wellington complains about Pigeons aggressively snatching food from youngsters among the outdoor seating, the answer from some is to suggest killing the pigeons at their nearby roosting area. Karlene looks at how the pigeon presense helps people.
      • Tagged as:
      • animals
      • video

    • Unicomm and the horrible history of our halls
      • 1 Sep 2008
      • Salient
      • Every year hundreds of parents breathe a sigh of relief as their 18 year olds embark on the beginning of their future in the supposed safety of University Accommodation. Victoria University’s student accommodation has been renowned for dodgy foundations, mould, mushrooms, religious fanatics and several outbreaks of scabies.
      • Tagged as:
      • housing
      • victoria university

    • Massive housing upgrade swings into action
      • 26 Aug 2008
      • Wellington City Council
      • Te Ara Hou flats in Newtown will be the first property to receive a makeover under the joint venture between the Government and Wellington City Council that will upgrade the Council’s rental housing stock over the next 20 years.
      • Tagged as:
      • housing
      • newtown

    • Updated Housing Policy
      • 1 Jul 2008
      • Hutt City Council
      • Hutt City Council is seeking comments and submissions from interested parties on Council’s updated Housing Policy. Submissions close Thursday, 31 July 2008.
      • Tagged as:
      • housing
      • hutt valley

    • Move with me
      • 30 Apr 2008
      • Capital Times
      • “IT’S an awful idea.” Tracy Hurst-Porter, Johnsonville Progressive Association spokesperson, objects to the Wellington City Council’s plans to encourage high-density housing in and around Johnsonville.
      • Tagged as:
      • housing
      • johnsonville

    • Karlene's online dating experiment
      • 11 Apr 2008
      • Inspirationaltv - Wellington video blog
      • Online dating is going mainstream in New Zealand. So Karlene ventures into the world of online dating by placing a profile on findsomeone and nzdating. One has a "cleaner" reputation than the other, watch the results ...
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      • blogs

    • Changes afoot for Adelaide Road
      • 21 Nov 2007
      • Capital Times
      • ADELAIDE Road is about to get busier. Wellington City Council is making it easier for developers to build apartments at the city end of Adelaide Road to accommodate the demand for inner city living.
      • Tagged as:
      • architecture
      • housing
      • newtown

    • How to protect the Citizens of Wellington
      • 22 Oct 2007
      • Back To The Future
      • I've been thinking that Wellington needs a home owners and tenants union to protect the citizens from developers and people who get elected into public office by telling lies and acting in an unethical manner. This union should look after the public interest of the ratepayers and renters of the city. It should have as its mission the informing and protecting the public by its own media. What do you think?
      • Tagged as:
      • housing

    • Gangs of Khandallah
      • 12 Oct 2007
      • WellUrban
      • There was a bit of heated discussion around here a few months ago about whether it would be a good thing to restrict ad-hoc infill while encouraging infill in places that have the infrastructure to support it.
      • Tagged as:
      • architecture
      • housing

    • Tenants seek secure housing
      • 3 Oct 2007
      • Capital Times
      • CITY council tenants grilled election candidates on the future of social housing this week. The meeting, organised by the Wellington Housing Association of Tenants (WHAT), was for Lambton and Southern Ward candidates.
      • Tagged as:
      • elections 2007
      • housing

    • Call to get tough with developers
      • 3 Oct 2007
      • Capital Times
      • CRACK down on cheap developers or live in a shoddy Wellington, says Stuart Niven, Director of Urban Design for the Victorian State Government in Melbourne. Niven was in Wellington this week to present a talk as part of the IntensCITY investigation of urban space.
      • Tagged as:
      • housing

    • Last Call for Infill Housing Review Submissions
      • 29 Jun 2007
      • Wellington City Council
      • Time is running out for people to comment on Wellington City Council's review of how infill housing is managed in the city (ie new 'backyard' housing within established suburbs of older housing). The closing date for feedback is 5pm, Monday 2 July.
      • Tagged as:
      • housing

    • $220 mln for housing
      • 27 Jun 2007
      • Capital Times
      • WELLINGTON City Council tenants can look forward to a $220 million home makeover. The council's Strategy and Policy Committee last week accepted an offer of $220 million from the government, to be invested in housing over the next 10-15 years.
      • Tagged as:
      • housing
      • wellington city council

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    • Wellington Housing Trust
      • Wellington Housing Trust is a charitable trust providing social housing in Wellington City. It has been providing affordable housing to low and middle income families and individuals in Wellington for nearly 24 years.
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      • housing

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