Houses for causes: 'supercharging' social housing

Houses for causes: 'supercharging' social housing
More and better social housing is on the way - but how much, delivered by whom, and at what cost? (Image: NZME)
Nikitin Sallee
A bigger role for non-government entities in social housing is on its way. Is now the time to bring social housing and social investment together? This is the first article in a series on the business of social housing.A government keen to “supercharge social housing” – as the National party promised before last year’s election – has like minds in the Treasury. National’s 2023 policy offered no details on what “supercharging social housing” looks like beyond “backing our community housi...

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