Forever Affordable Homes has direct experience on workable on-going affordable housing solutions for Aotearoa. We draw on this mahi to outline 5 key fixes needed NOW for this to be deliverable.

Where planning changes provide increased density (and profit) a portion must be ring-fenced for permanently affordable housing. If we don't value capture the nationwide upzoning, we are are giving away the biggest opportunity to create affordable housing in a lifetime!

With hundreds of successful examples the world over, Community Land Trusts are a proven way to ensure housing stays affordable forever. An overdue part solution for Aotearoa’s housing catastrophe.

Our third housing catastrophe fix is to urgently change the Cooperative Companies Act to provide for Residential Cooperatives. This will enable many self-determining community development projects to proceed with greater certainty and reduced cost.

Our mahi has led us to identify five key strategies needed in Aotearoa to fix housing. The second is to already use the existing underwriting processes in place by Government but applied to the emerging collective housing sector. This will leverage additional investment.

We identify five key strategies needed in Aotearoa to fix housing. The first is to enable the emerging collective housing sector by providing financial and legal support to its representative body.

Cooperative housing could be a big part of the solution to our affordable housing problem, if government and the business community are ready to get on board.

We address the questions you have been asking across an array of forums, predominately in context to the Auckland case study.

Living in expensive, unhealthy rentals while house prices skyrocket is demoralising as a young kiwi. The quarter acre dream feels out of reach. A Forever Affordable Home could be a solution for trapped renters like me.

Are you and your home in a boring, stale relationship? Want a home that gives you something more than just a roof over your head? Try collective housing! Housing not only is great for the individual but there are also wider community benefits.

An Auckland case study details how a forever affordable housing development could house many who are economically trapped.

The approach suggests a flavour filled mix of two models which does not yet exist for Aucklanders.

Can we expect all available options and proven solutions to to our housing crisis to be progressed in next weeks announcement by the NZ Government?

The NZ Government is considering our housing future for decades to come. Forever Affordable Homes has made a submission to the Housing and Urban Development led policy document. Our key aim is to enable more forever affordable housing for NZ. The well known kiwibuild program is an important affordable home buying option but we need more forever affordable home options.