Addressing homelessness
Warm, dry, and secure housing along with the right support services helps people build better lives. Our housing and support initiatives, including Housing First, aim to help end homelessness and help people to stay safely housed.
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Aotearoa Homelessness Action Plan 2020-2023
The Aotearoa Homelessness Action Plan was published in February 2020 to deliver on the Government’s vision that homelessness is prevented where possible, or is rare, brief and non-recurring.
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Māori and Iwi Housing Innovation - Framework for Action
Supporting whānau Māori to find and keep safe, secure, healthy and affordable housing is essential to reducing the numbers of Māori becoming homeless.
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The Local Innovation and Partnership Fund
The Local Innovation and Partnership Fund is a $16.6 million fund set up under the Homelessness Action Plan. The fund is aimed at supporting local initiatives to respond to and prevent homelessness.
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Sustaining Tenancies
Sustaining Tenancies works to prevent homelessness by funding community-based services to support individuals, families and whānau who need help to sustain their tenancy and address issues putting their tenancy at risk.
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Rapid Rehousing
Rapid Rehousing is an intervention to support individuals, families and whānau to quickly exit homelessness, return to permanent housing in the community and maintain their tenancies to avoid a return to homelessness.
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Housing First
Housing First recognises that it is much easier for people to address complex needs, such as mental health and addiction, once they have a stable place to live.
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Creating Positive Pathways
Creating Positive Pathways (CPP) is a trial initiative to house people leaving prison and support them to reintegrate back into their community. This trial is being run in collaboration with Ara Poutama Aotearoa (Corrections) and MSD.
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Transitional housing
Transitional housing is temporary accommodation and support for individuals or families who are in urgent need of housing. It provides warm, dry, short term housing for people and families who have an urgent need for a place to stay.
Published: June 3, 2021