More plans for new homes to ease crisis
Thousands of new homes will be built in Auckland in a bid to tackle the housing crisis.
Housing and Urban Development Minister Phil Twyford said yesterday in Mt Roskill that about 10,000 new homes would be built in the suburb which would be linked to the planned light rail line. Twyford launched the Mt Roskill Development and detailed the scope of the Mt Roskill project alongside KiwiBuild and the Auckland Housing Programme.
Similar in scale to the Mangere Development, the 143-hectare Mt Roskill Development will be built over the next 10 to 15 years.
‘‘This redevelopment will include more than 2400 modest, affordable KiwiBuild homes for first-home buyers, around 3000 market homes, and more than 3000 new state homes.
‘‘Building in Roskill South has already started. Under stage one, 80 new state homes will be built, with the first ready to move into next year.’’
Twyford said stage two would begin mid-2019. About 90 wornout state homes will be replaced with about 300 new homes, including about 95 KiwiBuild homes, about 60 state houses and market homes.
‘‘The Roskill South part of the redevelopment will be finished in the next six years, with 302 new state homes and 578 affordable market homes being built.’’
The Housing NZ subsidiary Homes, Land, Community (HLC) is undertaking the development, stage one and two of which have already begun.
The first set of 18 KiwiBuild homes are in Papakura, south Auckland. They are expected to be occupied by Christmas.
They include 12 three-bedroom homes priced at $579,000 and six four-bedroom homes priced at $649,000.