15 nov 2001 año - Hobsonville Housing Project - starts

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The Government’s involvement in the Hobsonville housing development began when the New Zealand Defence Force announced that the former air force base was surplus and that it intended to incrementally release the land associated with the base.
The Hobsonville site comprised approximately 167 hectares adjacent to the Waitemata Harbour in north-west Auckland.
There was a concern that no provision would be made for social and affordable housing if the entire site was sold off to and developed by a private developer. It was also recognised that the site presented a unique opportunity for Government to influence the shape of urban development in Auckland and to generate wider social and economic returns from the development. Cabinet agreed that Housing New Zealand Corporation (HNZC) work to facilitate the creation of an integrated urban community at Hobsonville which included state rental housing and sections from low and modest income families seeking to own their own homes, on the basis that such an undertaking was consistent with the Government’s broader housing and social objectives and fits with the role that Government envisaged for HNZC.
The Government’s development objective was to facilitate the creation of an integrated urban community of 3,000 homes (approximately 8,000 residents) to:
• include housing aimed at a variety of prices, including a mix of market-rate homes, affordable homes and state houses (500 or 15 percent would be state houses and a further 500 or 15 percent would be affordable housing);
• include a mix of housing types – apartments, terraced homes and stand-alone houses for singles, couples and families;
• build a vibrant community the includes people from all walks of life;
• emphasise the historical and cultural heritage of the area; and
• set new benchmarks for sustainable urban development.
In August 2005, HNZC established a wholly-owned subsidiary, the Hobsonville Land Company (HLC) to facilitate the development. The HLC had its own Board and Chief Executive, but was accountable to the HNZC Board. It was anticipated that the development would span at least ten years.
In December 2007, AV Jennings Limited was appointed the preferred development partner of the HLC to develop and deliver the first precinct of the Hobsonville development. Development work on the first precinct of around 30 hectares (Buckley Precinct) commenced in 2009 and was to be staged over a four year period. It comprised 1,080 dwellings, shops, two schools and day care facilities. Earthworks commenced in October 2009, with roading and streetscapes competed in May 2010. Construction of the first 660 dwellings commenced in 2011, with the first houses occupied in September 2011.
Following the 2008 change in Government, there was a change in focus for the project with the removal of provision for state housing and a focus on the sale of land to contribute to urban land supply for a growing Auckland and to increase the supply of housing in Auckland. In 2012, the Government agreed to an accelerated divestment strategy for Hobsonville (a requirement for Crown divestment within a five year timeframe). It was intended that as part of the divestment strategy, a minimum of 20 percent of the 3,000 houses built at Hobsonville would be affordable houses (in the Auckland context) built without government subsidies.
In November 2012, the Government announced that 20 percent of the 2,500 to 3,000 new homes at Hobsonville Point would be designated as affordable homes meaning that 500 to 600 new affordable homes would be constructed. Under the inflation-adjusted targets, of all homes built at Hobsonville Point:
• 10 percent would be sold for less than $400,000; and
• 10 percent would be sold for between $400,000 and $485,000.
It was up to the HLC how it achieved the targets in a commercial development environment, but the Government provided the Company with greater flexibility around accelerating development to bring more supply to the market faster. It was envisaged that the Company would introduce a scheme to prioritise home-ownership access to some of the houses.
In October 2013, the land was given Special Housing Area status under the new Housing Accords and Special Housing Areas Act 2013 and in June 2015 the HLC announced it was bringing forward the development of 1,000 new homes which would previously not have been available until 2019.

Source: https://www.msd.govt.nz/about-msd-and-our-work/about-msd/history/social-assistance-chronology-programme-history.html

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