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Work is under way to upgrade a number of social housing units in Christchurch with special types of insulation.
Social housing is returning to the east for the first time since the earthquakes, with 19 new homes providing relief to residents in need.
Christchurch City Council’s Draft Community Housing Strategy is now open for public feedback.
By the end of this month nearly all tenants living in Ōtautahi Community Housing Trust (OCHT) homes will have heat pumps to keep themselves warm.
A new community housing complex featuring energy-efficient and environmentally-friendly homes has been officially opened in St Martins by Housing Minister Megan Woods and Christchurch Mayor Lianne Dalziel.
Christchurch City Council has agreed to a rates-neutral loan of up to $25 million to support the building of 85 new social housing units and to kick-start the planning of 54 more.
A programme to install heat pumps in hundreds of social housing homes around Christchurch will resume under Alert Level 3.
The old heater in Lance Cox’s social housing unit chewed through power and was costly to run, so even when it was bitterly cold he would turn it off.
Ninety new social housing units will be built on the old Brougham Village site in Sydenham by the Ōtautahi Community Housing Trust (OCHT).
Heat pumps will be installed in hundreds of social housing units across the city over the coming months as part of a major initiative to improve conditions for tenants.
The temporary housing erected on Linwood Park after the earthquakes will start to be removed in February.
Christchurch City Council will borrow $10 million so it can fast-track work on making its social housing units warmer and drier.
Christchurch City Council is working on making its social housing units warmer and drier but there are challenges in maintaining the second largest housing stock in the country. Council Head of Facilities, Property and Planning Bruce Rendall explains.
A report outlining options for fast-tracking upgrades to some of the city’s older social housing units will be considered by Christchurch City Council tomorrow.
The Ōtautahi Community Housing Trust has opened its first new social housing complex in Louisson Place in Opawa, Christchurch.