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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 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.

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.

Christchurch City Council’s Draft Community Housing Strategy is now open for public feedback.

The Ōtautahi Community Housing Trust has opened its first new social housing complex in Louisson Place in Opawa, Christchurch.

Work is under way to upgrade a number of social housing units in Christchurch with special types of insulation.

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.

Tenants of a new community housing development in south Christchurch are set to benefit from an innovative onsite e-bike and electric car share scheme.

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