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Part 2: Strategic priority one: Broaden the Corporation's role as a social landlord
This priority recognises that access to state housing and housing services is one way of helping people in need. Another is to find new ways of helping people move into the private rental market or to buy their own home. It includes a subsidy provided to the Corporation to compensate for the difference between assessed income-related and market rents under the income-related rent subsidy appropriation.
The Corporation's role is to provide state housing and housing services to the most vulnerable people in need, as well as being the Government's adviser on housing sector policy. This includes buying, building or modernising homes; making homes warmer and more energy-efficient; and providing tenancy management and support for people unable to get homes in the private sector.
As a social landlord, the Corporation needs to understand why people require state housing and other housing services. Identifying these reasons will help the Corporation find more innovative ways of working with other agencies and supporting New Zealanders to achieve their housing aspirations.
Key activities to achieve this strategic priority include:
- providing housing assistance to those most in need through the Social Allocation System
- subsidising tenants' rental costs with income-related rent
- improving service performance through a tenancy management model
- matching housing design with tenant and community needs.
