20-08-2023, 06:56 PM
While the buildings are truly ugly, the idea is a good one & much of this makes excellent sense. Which is highly unusual for any govt dept.
There will be 24 hour support services for those who need it & various things for tenants with disabilities such as oven doors which open sideways
https://kaingaora.govt.nz/urban-developm...e-matawai/
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/495...evelopment
, a"Te Mātāwai, a complex of 276 apartment units on Greys Avenue in the CBD, opened its doors this morning.
The $140 million development replaces a seven-storey building with 87 units that was demolished in 2019.
The latest was something of an experiment. Te Mātāwai will include a mix of social housing, temporary accommodation, and rental properties.
"There's various models around the world, but this is new in New Zealand," Minister of Housing Megan Woods said.
"Two hundred of those are public housing, 76 of them are market rentals."
The intention was to ensure a "diverse and mixed community," she said.
"We need to be building communities, we need to be bringing different people together."
Woods said she was persuaded by Auckland City Missioner Helen Robinson.
"Then I had to persuade my colleagues that this was the best case, because in some ways it goes against the grain," she said.
But renters would still be housed separately, in one of the three towers that made up the complex."
There will be 24 hour support services for those who need it & various things for tenants with disabilities such as oven doors which open sideways
https://kaingaora.govt.nz/urban-developm...e-matawai/
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/495...evelopment
, a"Te Mātāwai, a complex of 276 apartment units on Greys Avenue in the CBD, opened its doors this morning.
The $140 million development replaces a seven-storey building with 87 units that was demolished in 2019.
The latest was something of an experiment. Te Mātāwai will include a mix of social housing, temporary accommodation, and rental properties.
"There's various models around the world, but this is new in New Zealand," Minister of Housing Megan Woods said.
"Two hundred of those are public housing, 76 of them are market rentals."
The intention was to ensure a "diverse and mixed community," she said.
"We need to be building communities, we need to be bringing different people together."
Woods said she was persuaded by Auckland City Missioner Helen Robinson.
"Then I had to persuade my colleagues that this was the best case, because in some ways it goes against the grain," she said.
But renters would still be housed separately, in one of the three towers that made up the complex."
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)