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• Kāinga Ora rolls out suicide prevention programme

  The MATES in Construction suicide prevention programme will be delivered at Kāinga Ora building sites to help prevent deaths in the construction industry. mental health education and support initiative first launched in New Zealand in October, but has been available for 11 years in Australia, where construction

• New home a game-changer for wheelchair sports enthusiast

  Wheelchair sports enthusiast and Dunedin local Dillon says his wellbeing has improved tenfold since he moved into his fully accessible Kāinga Ora home. challenging, says Dillon. In 2016, Dillon relocated to Australia to gain new life experiences and to meet more people with the same condition. “It was a great

• Kāinga Ora scoops Māori Crown Relationships Award

  Congratulations to our people who were part of the team that won the Te Hāpai Hāpori - Spirit of Service Awards 2020 Māori Crown Relationships Award. Service Commission, which focused on auahatanga (innovation), whakapūmautanga (durability) and kōwhiringa (opportunities). Dame Karen Sewell, from the Australia and

• Kāinga Ora appoints internal leader Tracey Taylor as Chief Executive

  The Kāinga Ora – Homes and Communities Board has appointed Tracey Taylor, currently Kāinga Ora’s Chief People and Assurance Officer, as its incoming Chief Executive. the Board was delighted to appoint Tracey following a robust and highly competitive recruitment process that involved a search across New Zealand and Australia

• Online ‘Lunch Room’ to support construction workers

  Suicide prevention charity MATES in Construction NZ has launched an online Lunch Room to support construction workers during the COVID-19 lockdown. place, but the participants will find the atmosphere relaxing.” MATES in Construction is a charitable organisation formed in Australia in 2008. Kāinga Ora signed a

• Future looks bright again thanks to new home

  For Amye, her new Kāinga Ora home in Dunedin means she can live her life how she wants and get back to what she loves doing – working. much of her twenties working in Australia, but her life took an unexpected turn when she moved to Mosgiel to support her sister and niece through some personal

• ‘My life changed’: Kāinga Ora delivers five homes a week in Canterbury during 2020

  Jimaima was in tears when she got her new home. After years of struggles and living with the effects of a stroke, she now has a safe place to call her own. Hers is just one of 260 new homes provided for people in need in Canterbury in 2020. from place to place. Her family helped her move to Australia to see if things would be better there, but when Covid-19 hit she moved back to Christchurch to

• Kāinga Ora brings unique solar sharing system to Northland

  Kāinga Ora has brought world leading solar sharing technology to Whangārei, with customers at its Anzac Road complex among the first in the country to benefit. development and Napier’s 24-unit Seddon Crescent development completed last month. Kāinga Ora has partnered with leading Australian company Allume Energy to bring the SolShare system to New Zealand.  

• Kāinga Ora scores two wins in Australasian Housing Institute Awards

  Kāinga Ora – Homes and Communities has scooped two awards in the New Zealand section of the 2021 Australasian Housing Institute Awards (AHI). These awards were for our COVID-19 response in 2020 and for Te Mahi Ngatahi Maintenance Contract. winners across the Australian states for the overall Australasian awards held in Melbourne in March 2022. Kāinga Ora took out the two categories of Excellence in

• Family of seven settled in Kauri Place, Hastings

  After living in three small motel rooms for nearly three years, Petelo, Marie and their five children are loving life in Kāinga Ora’s new housing development in Kauri Place. sometimes fighting.” Petelo and Marie moved from Samoa to New Zealand in 2016. “We moved in with my sister. When she moved to Australia we stayed in the house