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.
Christchurch City Council will borrow $10 million so it can fast-track work on making its social housing units warmer and drier.
The temporary housing erected on Linwood Park after the earthquakes will start to be removed in February.
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 has adopted a new strategy for community housing in the city following public feedback.
Moves are under way to deliver free internet access to Ōtautahi Community Housing Trust (ŌCHT) tenants.
Mayor Lianne Dalziel has opened the first stage of a new community housing development in Sydenham.
Ninety new social housing units will be built on the old Brougham Village site in Sydenham by the Ōtautahi Community Housing Trust (OCHT).
A programme to install heat pumps in hundreds of social housing homes around Christchurch will resume under Alert Level 3.
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.