About us
Part 1: The Government's strategic policy framework
We share responsibility for achieving the Government's wider social, economic and environmental goals with many other agencies.
We aim to manage our work programme and relationships with other agencies to help realise the Government's social policy vision, including its housing outcomes.
The Corporation's work contributes to the Government's themes for the next three years. These themes and the Corporation's contribution are set out below.
Economic transformation: This focuses on work to progress the nation's economic transformation to a high income, knowledge-based market economy, which is innovative and creative and provides a unique quality of life for all New Zealanders.
The Corporation's work contributes to two subthemes under economic transformation: making Auckland an internationally competitive city and promoting environmental sustainability.
Families, young and old: This theme focuses on all families, young and old, having the support and choices they need to be secure and able to reach their full potential within our knowledge-based economy.
The Corporation plays a role in supporting families, young and old by providing affordable housing to people in need. We contribute to the sub-themes of strong families, healthy confident children, safe communities, better health for all, and positive ageing. These results are sought in all aspects of our work and are central to our outcomes framework.
National identity: All New Zealanders are able to take pride in our identity through our arts, culture, film, sports and music; our appreciation of our natural environment; our understanding of our history; and our stance on international issues.
The housing we live in and the surrounding environment help to shape our identity and reflect our culture. The Corporation will continue to ensure state housing meets current and future aspirations of New Zealanders, and that housing policies and priorities are appropriate to New Zealand society.
As we meet with stakeholders in communities and neighbourhoods and work with other agencies, we need to think of presenting the work we do in relation to these three themes. It is important that we continue to listen and engage with our stakeholders and ensure the work we do together contributes to the goals contained in the themes - strong families, safe communities, better health for all, healthy confident children and positive ageing.
Working with other government agencies creates additional opportunities to collaborate on and promote these themes - our programme of action to implement the New Zealand Housing Strategy is an ideal way to do this.
The New Zealand Housing Strategy states the Government's priorities for housing and sets out a broad programme of action for housing over the next 10 years. The strategy will contribute to achieving the Government's three themes, in particular economic transformation and families, young and old.
The Government's vision for housing is that:
All New Zealanders have access to affordable, sustainable, good quality housing appropriate to their needs.
The Government will work with the community, business and local government to achieve this vision by reducing unmet housing need and housing inequalities, improving the quality of New Zealand homes, and developing a housing sector that encourages appropriate housing investment and provision. The strategy sets out the following areas of action.
Area 1: Work with industry and local government to encourage sustainable housing.
Area 2: Improve housing assistance and affordability.
Area 3: Improve access to home ownership.
Area 4: Develop the private rental sector.
Area 5: Improve housing quality.
Area 6: Strengthen housing sector capability.
Area 7: Meet diverse needs.
The Corporation's role includes the following activities.
- Leading and implementing the development of particular initiatives within the programme of action; working in partnership with other agencies.
- Coordinating the whole-of-government steering committee that provides cross-sector oversight during implementation.
- Developing a set of indicators and arrangements to monitor progress with other relevant agencies, including Statistics New Zealand, the Department of Building and Housing and the Ministry of Social Development.
- Increasing our knowledge about the housing sector and housing demand so we are better able to critically assess housing interventions.
- Providing high level policy advice on interventions across the sector to respond to New Zealand's diverse and changing housing needs.
We will work with the Department of Building and Housing and the Ministry of Social Development to implement the strategy. We will also work with the Treasury, the Inland Revenue Department and Ministry of Economic Development on home ownership initiatives; and the Ministry for the Environment, Ministry of Health, Statistics New Zealand, and the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority on the Building Code review. We will work with the Department of Building and Housing on implementing the Building Act 2004.
A wider range of agencies and organisations also have responsibility under the strategy, including the Department of Labour, the Ministries of Transport, Justice, and Pacific Island Affairs and Te Puni Kokiri, the Tertiary Education Commission, Local Government New Zealand, Land Information New Zealand, the Building and Construction Industry Training Organisation, and the Office of Ethnic Affairs.
