LEGAL LOWDOWN
NEWSLETTER #10 April 2014
Social Housing Changes
CHANGES TO SOCIAL HOUSING IN NEW ZEALAND
Legal Highs
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We take a look at the proposed changes to the laws relating to legal highs
Services We are you a services outline services edition.
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excited to bring number of new in 2014. We some of those in this months’
MSD is responsible for:
Education
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A snippet of some of our free legal education sessions running next month.
70,000 properties
On 14 April 2014, the New Zealand Government changed the way ‘social housing’ operates. Social housing is a term associated with housing provided by Community Housing providers or Housing New Zealand.
Assessing people’s eligibility for social housing
Provide housing to people referred to them by MSD
Managing waitlist for social housing
Manage tenancies, including organizing repairs
The changes are aimed at increasing the number of organisations that are able to provide social housing. In order to manage the increase of social housing providers, the Ministry of Social Development (“MSD”) has now been tasked with managing applications for social housing and refers applicants on the waitlist to social housing providers.
Calculating and administering income related rents
The following is a breakdown of responsibilities between MSD and Housing New Zealand -
Referring people to social housing providers
Paying income related rent subsidies to housing providers.
Housing New Zealand will continue to have the following responsibilities: Be landlord to all state housing tenants and manage their nationwide portfolio of almost….
For more information please see the Ministry of Social Development website: https://www.msd.govt.nz/about-msdand-our-work/workprogrammes/social-housing/index.html
THANK YOU! We want to take the time to say thank you to our student volunteers this month from Auckland University, School of Law and The Equal Justice Project We really appreciate your hard work!