Community Group Housing
What is community group housing?
Community Group Housing is a service provided by Housing New Zealand Corporation (Housing New Zealand). The service provides rental homes for government-funded groups or organisations that provide residential community services.
Housing New Zealand works with a wide range of organisations that provide residential community housing for:
- people who experience mental illness
- people who have physical and intellectual disabilities
- residential alcohol and drug services
- women who require refuge
- families who need emergency housing
- youth at risk
- support prisoner reintegration
How Community Group Housing works - eligibility
When a community group makes an enquiry with Housing New Zealand they are informed of the community group housing eligibility criteria.
Housing New Zealand uses the following eligibility criteria to determine whether community groups could be eligible for a Housing New Zealand property, the group must:
- be contracted to provide residential services by another government agency and;
- be accredited, audited and monitored by a government agency to provide residential services.
- be a registered charity, incorporated society or a government funded provider.
- have sufficient funding, governance structure and management capability to achieve the desired outcomes.
Community Group Housing provides either crisis housing or homes. Housing New Zealand does not supply houses/premises for clinical treatment. Generally, any treatment of the tenants of community groups should take place outside of any home rented from Community Group Housing.
To find out more about applying for Community Group Housing call 0800 833 755.
