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About the dashboard

This dashboard provides a monthly summary about the delivery of social homes funded from Budget 2024 and Budget 2025. For Māori homes it focuses on funding since December 2023.

It provides a summary on social housing delivery as of 30 September 2025. It provides a summary of Māori housing delivery as of 31 July 2025.

It shows a regional breakdown of how many homes are: 

  • approved
  • contracted
  • delivered and 
  • expected.

Funding pathways

Budget 2024: social housing

Budget 2024 allocated $140 million for a total of 1500 new social homes, to be delivered over two financial years (2025/26 and 2026/27) to be operated by community housing providers. Around 500 homes are allocated through the maintaining momentum pathway, and around 1000 homes are mainly being delivered by strategic partners or through a community-led approach.

Budget 2025: Social housing in Auckland

Budget 2025 committed new funds to deliver around 550 to 600 new social homes in Auckland in the 2025/26 financial year. The homes are to be operated by community housing providers (including strategic partners) and be ready for tenanting by November 2026.

Māori housing

Since December 2023, $426 million has been approved (in three tranches) for Māori-led delivery of around 1000 homes. The new homes are a range of papakāinga housing, affordable rentals, and owner-occupied housing.

Delivery by funding pathway

Below is a breakdown of homes through each funding pathway.

Budget 2024: social housing

Proposed 76
Approved 1282
Delivered 93

Budget 2025: social housing in Auckland

Proposed 181
Approved 356
Delivered 43

Māori housing

Proposed 341
Contracted 691
Delivered 68

Breakdown of social housing typology

Below is the breakdown of the typology of approved and delivered social housing funded from Budget 2024 and Budget 2025.

1 bed 40%
2 bed 48%
3 bed 8%
4 bed 4%

Definitions

Expected

Total homes delivered, approved, under evaluation or proposed. Subject to change as proposed and under evaluation projects are reviewed.

Proposed or under evaluation

Number of homes in projects submitted for consideration but not yet approved or contracted.

Approved

Funding for these homes has been approved.

Contracted

Legally committed to through executed agreements.

Delivered

Homes built and available for tenanting.

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*Number of homes contracted.