More houses to come for the west
Massey is scheduled to have almost 200 new houses built in the next three years as part of a government-run social housing programme.
On May 16, Social Housing Minister Amy Adams announced the Government Crown Building Project will replace 8,300 run down houses in Auckland with 34,000 new homes over the next decade.
More than 24,000 of these will be built as part of the Auckland Housing Programme (AHP) run by Housing New Zealand (HNZ).
The new 193 houses in Massey will be built as part of the AHP social housing.
It is one of seven west Auckland suburbs on a list of 33 suburbs to receive new houses as part of the AHP.
Avondale ranked about 368 new houses.
The Crown Building Project will run in two phases and about half of the homes constructed during first with the first phase, which is expected to last four years, will fall under AHP social housing. The remaining will be built under affordable housing, the Crown Land Programme, the Ministry of Social Development social housing programme and Tamaki Redevelopment Company.
Other West Auckland suburbs will get 430 new houses under AHP social housing in the next three years.
These included 65 in Blockhouse Bay, 39 in Glen Eden, 128 in Henderson,
Sunnyvale.
Hobsonville would get 12 new houses as part of the Ministry of Social Development social housing programme.
About one quarter of the new homes to be built as part of the Crown Land Programme over the next three years were also in West Auckland.
Massey topped the eightsuburb list with 197 new homes. In the north, Whenuapai would get 174 new houses. and five in
The Crown Land Programme included a total of 935 homes to be built over the next three years.
Adams said the first phase of the AHP will cost $2.23 billion and $1.1 billion will be funded by HNZ while the remaining will be borrowed. It will see 9417 new houses being built over the next four years. She said this was a significant undertaking for the government and for taxpayers.
‘‘It’s the equivalent of threeand-a-half new houses on every street across Auckland.’’