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Key strategies to achieve our outcomes
The Corporation has developed the following key strategies to guide how it meets its strategic priorities in a particular location or for a certain population. These strategies focus the Corporation on areas where action will address a known deficit or deliver the most improvement in housing and housing-related outcomes. The strategies include annual programmes of action.
The strategies build on existing programmes and resources to ensure they meet housing need and provide further housing opportunities for significant subgroups of the population, including Māori, Pacific peoples and households in Auckland.
For example, the Asset Management Strategy provides an integrated framework to manage its short- and long-term asset objectives.
Auckland Housing Strategy
The Auckland Housing Strategy outlines how the Corporation will operate in the region over the two decades to 2029, the timescale needed to achieve long-term change, and how it will address the challenges facing the region. The Corporation will:
- accelerate the upgrade of the Auckland state housing portfolio to improve housing quality and provide warm, well ventilated and energy-efficient homes
- work in partnership with government agencies, community organisations, local authorities and the community to improve outcomes for Auckland communities of high social need where state housing dominates
- support Auckland's growth by promoting affordable housing supply and by better use of state housing and other social housing providers to meet projected higher levels of future demand.
The Auckland Housing Strategy outlines a staged implementation plan from 2009.
Māori Strategic Plan
The Corporation's Māori Strategic Plan Te Au Roa has been created to help improve the housing outcomes of Māori. Te Au Roa defines the Corporation's commitment to improve Māori housing outcomes.
The priority areas are to:
- develop and maintain strategic partnerships with iwi, Māori and other key stakeholders
- increase the effectiveness of delivery to Māori
- enhance the Corporation's capability to respond to Māori as customers.
Housing Pathways
The Housing Pathways approach provides a framework for the Corporation's interaction with its tenants, and involves working with applicants, tenants and other Corporation clients (such as people in the Welcome Home First Steps programme) to support them to improve their housing outcomes.
It recognises that while people find themselves in need of social housing, changing life circumstances affect people's housing options and choices over time. The Corporation will maximise both applicant and tenant outcomes, and its ability to house those in the greatest need.
The Housing Pathways approach will guide how the Corporation relates to, and engages with, tenants and communities. The Corporation has started identifying interventions such as the Housing Options and Advice Service that can help people to realise housing options over time as their circumstances change. The strategy will set the vision, outcomes and direction, and identify how the Corporation will operate in the future.
Housing Strategy for Pacific Peoples
Pacific peoples have low home ownership rates compared with other New Zealanders. This is reflected in correspondingly high percentages of Pacific peoples renting privately and from the Corporation. Research also shows that there are higher levels of overcrowding in Pacific peoples' households. The Housing Strategy for Pacific Peoples will provide a framework to deliver the right services and opportunities to meet the housing needs and aspirations of Pacific peoples.
The strategy aims to deliver the following:
- Pacific peoples have access to good quality, suitable, affordable and stable rental housing.
- Pacific peoples have opportunities to achieve their home ownership aspirations.
- Pacific peoples and the Corporation understand each other.
- Pacific communities have strong and long-lasting relationships that enhance their housing outcomes.
Asset Management Strategy
The Asset Management Strategy provides a framework for the Corporation to manage its rental houses to meet social housing needs. The strategy sets out the key asset objectives and provides both short- and long-term strategies to help achieve the objectives.
The objective is to reduce the risk that there will be unmet demand, by using a well-researched framework to manage the Corporation's assets. The two critical determinants of the asset response are the levels of current and future demand, and the market supply of housing.
The Asset Management Strategy includes robust investment analysis so that rental cash flows and returns over the life of the asset guide the Corporation's asset configuration and determine how the Corporation will go about future divestments and acquisitions.
