This report seeks to aid those in the housing sector in Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland) and Te Tai Tokerau (Northland), to identify opportunities for engagement, investment and greater impact. While the focus is on housing in Te Tai Tokerau and Tāmaki Makaurau, some insights are offered on housing needs, opportunities, issues and policies in Aotearoa New Zealand overall.

Key points:

• New Zealand is experiencing an escalating yet solvable housing crisis, the impacts of which are being disproportionately felt by our Pacific and Māori communities. A significant number of children, young people, disabled people and older people are also seriously affected.
• Resolving this situation requires action throughout the housing continuum and a holistic approach from prevention and early intervention to crisis responses.
• Homelessness is preventable and should be ‘rare, brief and non-recurring’, but providing housing alone will not address its causes.
• Some organisations in Auckland and Northland have developed innovative and high-quality solutions to social housing needs and homelessness. These need support, and there is a will to do more at scale and pace through collaboration and partnering.
• There is increasing evidence of shared leadership and collaboration in the housing sector. For example, Community Housing Aotearoa represents 90 developers, consultants and local councils that between them house about 25,000 people in 13,000 homes in New Zealand.
• Improvements in the quality and standards of building practice and service delivery in the housing sector are becoming evident. Government and other agencies are increasingly collaborating to achieve collective impact.