Housing Market Renewal - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 05 Aug 2021 03:34:55 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Housing Market Renewal - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Government project targets 'ghost houses' to encourage owners to fill empty homes https://cathnews.co.nz/2021/08/05/government-project-empty-homes/ Thu, 05 Aug 2021 07:54:56 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=139005 A new government project is investigating how to locate empty ‘ghost homes', find their owners, and encourage them to bring them back to being occupied. Stuff can reveal the Government has allocated $500,000 towards testing initiatives that aim to encourage owners to fill their empty properties. The initiatives are being run under an initiative called Read more

Government project targets ‘ghost houses' to encourage owners to fill empty homes... Read more]]> A new government project is investigating how to locate empty ‘ghost homes', find their owners, and encourage them to bring them back to being occupied.

Stuff can reveal the Government has allocated $500,000 towards testing initiatives that aim to encourage owners to fill their empty properties.

The initiatives are being run under an initiative called Housing Market Renewal, or HMR, and funding was allocated from the $1.9 million from the Budget 2019 homelessness contingency. Read more

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