nov 7, 2016 - Emergency Housing Fund - changed
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The Government announced additional funding totalling $304 million over the 2016/2017 financial year and the subsequent four years to fund:
• new emergency housing places;
• associated support services; and
• more frontline staff at the Ministry of Social Development.
The funding was made up of:
• $120 million in capital funding to build, buy or lease properties suitable for emergency housing. $100 million of this was a loan to Housing New Zealand which had to be repaid within 10 years;
• $71 million in rental subsidies from the Ministry of Social Development to Community Housing Providers so they could meet rental payments for properties procured by the Crown;
• $102 million for providers to support, stablise and help tenants move into longer-term hosuing, including supporting them in their new tenancy; and
• $10.4 million for more dedicated frontline staff at the Ministry of Social Development to work with people who needed emergency housing or were on the social housing register.
The additional emergency housing places were to be delivered in a number of wasy, including using vacant Crown land, including Housing New Zealand building 40 homes in Otahuhu, Auckland, on land it had leased from the Ministry of Education. Modular housing was also being developed at three sites across Auckland and Housing New Zealand had purchased a motel in Takanini, Auckland.
The initiatve aimed to create an additional 1,400 emergency housing places with 600 being in Auckland and the remaining 800 in areas of high demand around the country. This was in addition to the more than 3,000 places already funded and the Emergency Housing Special Needs Grant introduced in July 2016.
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