About us
Strategic framework
Housing New Zealand Corporation is a Crown entity under the Crown Entities Act 2004 and operates under the Housing Corporation Act 1974.
Managing 68,644 properties for over 200,000 New Zealanders, the Corporation is New Zealand's largest social landlord.
The Government seeks to transform New Zealand through a programme of change centred on three themes: Economic Transformation, National Identity and Families - Young and Old. These themes reinforce one another and are supported by the seven areas of action in the Government's New Zealand Housing Strategy (the strategy).
The strategy provides a framework and direction for government activity in the housing sector over the next seven years. The vision for the strategy is: 'All New Zealanders have access to affordable, sustainable, good quality housing appropriate to their needs.'
The strategy has seven areas of action that the Corporation either leads or contributes to with other agencies in the housing sector.
- Area one: Supply of sustainable housing
- Area two: Improved housing assistance and affordability
- Area three: Improved access to home ownership
- Area four: Development of the private rental sector
- Area five: Improved housing quality
- Area six: Strengthened housing sector capability
- Area seven: Meeting diverse needs
Housing New Zealand Corporation's mission is: 'To provide New Zealanders with access to decent homes, helping them to manage their own circumstances and contribute to community life.'
The Corporation has two outcomes that describe how it will achieve this.
- Supply good quality, affordable housing that is appropriate to changing needs. This outcome focuses on interventions that improve or increase the overall supply and distribution of affordable housing across the sector.
- New Zealanders have the capacity to obtain and maintain housing and to contribute to cohesive and effective communities. This outcome focuses on interventions that strengthen the ability of individuals, households and communities to achieve their own housing solutions.
