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Nau mai, haere mai. On 1 October, Housing New Zealand, HLC and KiwiBuild together became Kāinga Ora – Homes and Communities.

The information on this website is being moved to the new Kāinga Ora website.

For our tenants and their communities Find out about renting a home from us, different ways to pay your rent, what to do if your home needs repairs, and what you can expect from us as your landlord.

Housing developments and programmes

Different initiatives and programmes aim to support people in housing need. These include the Regional housing development and our Auckland housing programme.

Ways we can help you to own a home

Housing New Zealand manage a number of financial products to help first home buyers to achieve the dream of home ownership.

Latest News

19 September 2019

Celebrating Te Ao Maori with our kura

Masses of students, teachers and family members filled Haeata Community Campus for its market day ahead of Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori, where stalls sold food, jewellery and all manner of goods and services.
19 September 2019

Support empowers residents

Our community group housing partners have been supporting people “to have their own choices, their owns rights, to make their own decisions”.
17 September 2019

Healthy Homes initiative - a win for Housing New Zealand

Housing New Zealand is the proud recipient of a shared award from the Prime Minister for work on the Healthy Homes initiative - helping create warm, dry healthy homes for low-income families.
12 September 2019

Weaving a way to community

A group of Housing New Zealand tenants, their whānau and friends have been doing their bit to keep with korowai weaving traditions during Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori