14 avr. 2014 - Social housing transferred to the Ministry of Social Development

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As part of the government’s reform of social housing, a number of housing functions were transferred from Housing New Zealand Corporation to the Ministry of Social Development.
The functions that were transferred to the Ministry of Social Development included:
• screening people’s eligibility for social housing;
• assessing people’s social housing needs;
• managing the waiting list for social housing;
• referring potential tenants to approved social housing providers, including Housing New Zealand Corporation;
• reviewing social housing tenancies (from 1 July 2014);
• calculating and reviewing income-related rents;
• calculating income-related rent subsidies;
• providing options and advice on alternative housing solutions; and
• managing debt and fraud associated with income-related rent payments.
The transfer of functions to the Ministry of Social Development was intended to:
• enable a more comprehensive view of people’s overall needs (over 80 percent of state housing primary tenants received support from the Ministry);
• ensure that housing needs assessment was independent from social housing providers; and
• create a level playing field between registered community housing providers and Housing New Zealand Corporation.
The changes to social housing had been announced in the 2013 Budget and followed the 2010 report of the Housing Shareholders Advisory Group: Home and Housed: A Vision of Social Housing in New Zealand

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

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