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Students lay the foundation for a career in trades

The Kāinga Ora Downer cadetship programme is winding up another successful year teaming school students up with maintenance contractors to learn the skills of a trade. gives students a chance to gain autonomy, capability and capacity to then head into employment.” This year, the New Zealand Building and Construction Industry

New Nelson homes almost ready for whānau

A significant new social housing development in Nelson will provide 26 homes for tenants and families. Local iwi last week blessed the new state homes in Stoke, ahead of tenants moving in. The new development includes 8 one-bedroom, 14 two-bedroom and 4 three

New partnership to bolster construction industry and housing supply in Marlborough

Picton is set to become the home of a new construction academy thanks to a partnership between Kāinga Ora and Queen Charlotte College. Charlotte College Principal, Betty Whyte, says the academy will provide a potential career option for students once they graduate. "The new construction academy

Construction Plus – students swap school bags for hard hats

While their peers relaxed during the recent school holidays, nine students from across Auckland donned hard hats and spent the fortnight learning about civil construction. training, employment, and industry opportunities. This April, students from Northcote College, Aorere College, Onehunga High School, Lynfield College and Tamaki

Etu Rakau: creating a circular economy by connecting community

Rata Taiwhanga is determined to cultivate connection – to build the type of community he wished for while growing up in a Kāinga Ora home. At one of our properties in Mangere, he’s secured nearly $80,000 to do just that. generation of change-makers. Now 29, he’s making that happen for a new generation – and he’s doing it alongside a raft of community groups, schools and government

Future Squad: Building tomorrow’s tradespeople

Rangatahi from Te Kauwhata College are getting a head start on careers in construction through Future Squad, part of the Construction Plus programme at Kāinga Ora. , it’s also important to say that none of this would be possible without the support and work from the team at Te Kauwhata College.” Natalie Langman, Gateway

Rangatahi renovations build connection and career pathways

Four homes arrived on trucks, but that’s just where the journey began for 75 teenage tradies in training. Rangatahi tell us why they wanted to restore a relocated Kāinga Ora home. mahi – the homes being restored by Ama Training and One Tree Hill College all came from the same street and were relocated to enable new housing through Mangere

Kāinga Ora and Spotless celebrate biggest ever cohort of young Māngere cadets

Seventeen-year-old sisters Tarial, Salote and Aliitasi Seuteni were busier than usual during the term one school holidays; they spent them getting up early and learning how to wire in lights and install ovens. Adventist High School gain two weeks’ work experience in a range of trade businesses that contract to Spotless, a Downer company. Cadets work with plumbers

High school students building new Kāinga Ora homes

Massey High School building academy students felt a deep sense of pride as their first Kāinga Ora home was officially opened. The new three-bedroom home was built on the Massey school grounds, but now sits in Mangere, with a family set to move in shortly. Seventeen-year-old Mckoy

Māngere Community Enviro Hub: ‘From picking up rubbish, to planting out trees, to feeding the people’

Mangere community groups have taken a site provided by Kāinga Ora and grown it into a space to connect and protect their environment. rākau seedlings, which will help the awa to thrive. All of this work is part of a bigger plan – one led out of the new Māngere Community Enviro Hub and the various

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