State Housing In New Zealand
State housing is a system of public housing in New Zealand, offering low-cost rental housing to residents on low to moderate incomes. Some 69,000 state houses are managed by Kāinga Ora – Homes and Communities, most of which are owned by the Crown. In excess of 31,000 former state houses exist, which are now privately owned after large-scale sell-offs during recent decades. Since 2014, state housing has been part of a wider social housing system, which also includes privately owned low-cost housing. An archetypal 1930s and 1940s state house is a detached two- or three-bedroom cottage-style house, with weatherboard or brick veneer cladding, a steep hipped tile roof, and multi-paned timber casement windows. Thousands of these houses were built across New Zealand as state housing, and as private housing after World War II, when the Government started selling their drawings and plans in an attempt to hasten housing construction. These houses, also known as "ex-state houses" to ...
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Workers' Dwelling Act 1905
The Workers' Dwelling Act 1905 was an Act of Parliament in New Zealand, and formed the basis for the country's earliest State_housing_in_New_Zealand, state housing scheme. Background The Act allowed the Government to purchase land under the Lands for Settlements Act 1900, develop it with housing, and sell it to workers. The Act sought to alleviate housing pressures experienced by slum-dwelling working class members, especially those in the largest urban centres such as Wellington. The Act also addressed smaller urban centres, such as Nelson, but to a lesser extent. The initial regime allowed a dwelling to be sold to the worker gradually, often via a weekly rent after an initial fixed deposit. The Act's housing scheme utilised standardised designs of dwellings. These designs were selected by a competition. Of the 150 designs submitted, only 34 were selected to be used. These were then split into two sets: one for the North Island and the other for the South Island. The designs ...
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