Everyone has the right to live in a warm, healthy, affordable home. Safe, secure, sustainable housing is fundamental to the health and wellbeing of individuals, families, and communities.
Home insulation scheme: HeatSmart
We're proud of our successful $323 million HeatSmart home insulation scheme, which has made 100,000 homes made warmer and healthier, and will warm up another 100,000 before the end of its four years. Extending this scheme to a further 200,000 homes after that is part of our Green Jobs priority in 2011.
While the HeatSmart scheme has been taken up by thousands of homeowners, it hasn't helped as many families living in rental accommodation. Our Warm Healthy Rentals campaign is about introducing minimum standards for rental accommodation to ensure that rental properties are warm and healthy for our kids. This is part of our priority to bring 100,000 out of poverty by 2014.
Building: environmental impact
How and where we build homes has a major impact on the environment and we are committed to promoting housing that is energy efficient, close to transport and is designed to be sustainable. This includes new state and community housing, which is especially needed in the aftermath of the devastating Christchurch earthquakes.
Recent news
- 21 May 2012 | Event
- 21 May 2012 | Event
