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  • Kāinga Whenua Loans for individuals

    The Kāinga Whenua Loan is an opportunity for Māori to build, purchase or relocate a house on multiply-owned Māori land. $200,000. For example, a $400,000 loan would require a deposit of $10,000. Market interest rates will apply to your loan, and you’ll need to meet Kiwibank’s

  • First agreement for infrastructure fund enables additional iwi housing in Porirua

    Over 400 additional homes will be enabled for the people of Porirua thanks to the first Infrastructure Acceleration Fund (IAF) agreement recently signed between Kāinga Ora, Te Rūnanga o Toa Rangatira (Ngāti Toa Rangatira), and Porirua City Council. selected as a fast-track IAF proposal. “The initial proposal from Ngāti Toa Rangatira rated very highly against IAF evaluation criteria at the Expressions of

  • Transforming construction through innovation; our offsite manufacturing plan

    Our new offsite manufacturing plan will help to deliver more quality public and market homes at a faster rate, while contributing to a more effective and sustainable building sector. Against a backdrop of intense nationwide demand for more quality public and market housing, delivering well-designed and built homes at a faster rate for

  • Delivering more housing when it’s needed most

    With price and inflationary pressures making developing and building homes more expensive, Kāinga Ora is reassessing a small number of its developments to ensure they are cost-effective while continuing to deliver more social housing. then using the 60-70 years of rent revenue it will receive to pay the interest on that debt, repay it, maintain the homes, provide tenancy services, pay Council

  • First Home Loan

    A First Home Loan can make it easier for you to get into your first home by lowering the required deposit to 5%. changes, and the loan repayment goes into default. What will a First Home Loan cost me? Each participating lender will have their own interest rates and fees. One of

  • Introducing the new Housing Delivery Group

    goal is to use every dollar wisely and ensure we build at a cost closer to market rate. The industry naturally has an important role to play in this. We have

  • First off the ground: civil construction completed in Roskill South

    Across dozens of neighbourhoods set to deliver tens-of-thousands of new homes, Roskill South is the first in a Kāinga Ora large-scale project to have all its civil construction completed. homes for sale both at market rates and more affordable price points. Already, Kāinga Ora has completed about 350 homes in Roskill South, including almost all of

  • Invitation for IAF Expressions of Interest released

    From today, councils, iwi and developers are invited to submit expressions of interest and high-level proposals for the billion dollar Infrastructure Acceleration Fund. Kāinga Ora has today released invitations for expressions of interest (EOI) for the contestable portion of the Infrastructure Fund, announced as part of the

  • Thirty-five housing developments in last stage of infrastructure fund

    A wide range of proposals for much-needed housing developments around the country are through to the final stage of the bid for funding from the Infrastructure Acceleration Fund (IAF). Aotearoa New Zealand.  Following a robust process to evaluate both initial expressions of interest and full responses to request for proposals, 35 proposals

  • New homes set to increase housing supply in Westport

    Kāinga Ora last week offered the community the chance to walk through the new Queen Street homes in Westport, which it plans to purchase later this month. developer and expects to settle on the purchase of the homes in mid-April. “We know that there’s been strong community interest in the homes while construction has

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