Government Housing Package “Ignores Elephant in the Room”
While the bright-line extension and the removal of interest deductibility are likely to cool the property market a little, they will not address ...
Tenancy Protection Lifts Wellbeing for Vulnerable Families
Whānau and families will sleep better at night knowing their homes can’t be taken away from them without good reason thanks to the new residential ...
Government Must Do More to Address Housing-Related Poverty
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) argues the Government's rhetoric around the relief of housing-related poverty is not being matched by what it is ...
Call For Widespread Implementation of the Healthy Homes Initiative - Shown to Reduce Rates of Children Admitted to Hospital.
Making housing healthy under the Healthy Homes Initiative meant fewer GP visits and fewer admissions to hospital for children and fewer medicines ...
New Research Supports CPAG’s Call For a Housing WOF and Boosted Incomes
Not only should housing be required to meet minimum standards, tested to be compliant for health and safety, but many more affordable housing options ...
Progress on Public Housing, but Increased Need Outstrips the Gains
“We urgently need a greater number of state homes, and we need more solutions to housing across the board.”
Income Support Needs $3.4 Billion Overhaul
CPAG recommends removing the Accommodation Supplement for around 250,000 families because the payment is overly complex and poorly designed.
No CGT May Offer Opportunities to Rethink Policies to Address Inequality
Child Poverty Action Group cautiously welcomes the government’s response to the Tax Working Group’s final report.
Tax Working Group: CGT a Lost Opportunity to Explore Solutions to Inequality
“Those struggling to raise the next generation in the toughest of conditions should not miss out on future retirement subsidies that others receive ...
Rental Reform Proposal Offers Little More Than Minor Modifications
The scope proposed in this review really only considers the question of tenure security and then not in a particularly comprehensive way.
KiwiBuy Could Provide Security to Low-Income Families
The Salvation Army’s focus on a “KiwiBuy” scheme is an effective approach to ensuring that more people have access to stable and secure housing.
CPAG Welcomes Govt Announcement of Tenancy Law Review
CPAG urges Government to redouble its KiwiBuild efforts and to commit more money to building state housing in response to this shortage.
The Time for Tame Reforms of Tenancy Laws Is Over Says CPAG
As a country we should see that every every Kiwi child has the right to live in a home which is warm, safe and secure.
Outdated Tenancy Laws Increase Risks for Children in Poverty
Childhood illnesses, transience and a disastrous rate of homelessness in New Zealand are attributable to a desperate lack of housing required to meet ...
A Stronger Healthy Homes Bill Will Be a Pillar for Child Wellbeing
Vastly improving legislation around the quality and safety of rental homes is imperative if the wellbeing of children is to improve.
Every Child’s Right to a Healthy Home
Families are living in substandard housing that is causing alarming rates of illness, particularly among young children, and many do not have a home ...
People’s Review Report Shows Urgent Policies Needed
A deeper look at the tragic reality for many renting in New Zealand, that houses are often not maintained to a standard that is healthy and safe, ...
Housing Priorities for a New Zealand Where All Children Can Flourish
Each year, there are around 40,000 hospital admissions in New Zealand of children who have preventable illnesses that are linked to poverty.
Children’s Housing Needs Are Too Urgent to Stall
Our most vulnerable children are being failed by poor policies on housing and the evidence that a much more elaborate response is needed is stacking ...
Superu Report: Incomes and Housing Crucial to Community Stability
“A comprehensive approach to supporting families needs to be developed across a range of fields. The narrow current social investment approach will ...
CPAG Asks, What’s Changed Since Park up for Homes?
Homelessness cannot be allowed to become the status quo and it is important that policy change remains on the public and political agenda. More must ...
Why Are We Only Seeing Band-Aid Responses to the Deepening Housing Shortage?
Promises of a few hundred additional social housing units in a few years time have been vague at best.
Social Housing Demand up 49% Since 2015
While it is a good thing that homeless families are being helped financially when they need it the most, emergency grants are not a long-term ...
Budget Policy 2017: Make Housing Low-Income Families a Priority
There has been no notable improvement for children in poverty over the past decade, and it is imperative that significant extra funding be directed ...