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Monday, 24 April 2023


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Adopting a worker is one of the immediate solutions to help with
Queenstown-Lakes’ acute rental housing crisis, according to a draft joint action
housing plan.





To be discussed by the Queenstown Lakes District Council at its meeting in
Queenstown this week, the draft plan supercedes the Queenstown Lakes District
Homes Strategy 2021, and was one of six priorities for the Grow Well Whaiora
Partnership.

That included a working group comprising representatives from the Ministry of
Housing and Urban Development, Kainga Ora and the Queenstown Lakes Community
Housing Trust, funded by the council and Kainga Ora.

Included in the draft plan’s solutions to the present rental crisis was engaging
with community and businesses in finding workforce and housing solutions,
including, for example, "adopt a worker" schemes.

That was an initiative championed by Tourism Port Douglas Daintree, in
Australia, which involved asking the Douglas community to adopt a worker for the
busy season because of the rental crisis.

"By providing living arrangements for seasonal workers, businesses will be able
to operate with full teams and provide full services," the draft plan says.

Other "key actions" to solve the immediate issue include the council, Kainga
Ora, the housing trust and chambers of commerce investigating solutions which
had worked nationally, and internationally, and see how they could be replicated
in the Queenstown-Lakes; to facilitate a community group focused on local
community solutions to housing; educate on the benefits of long-term rentals;
and further investigate obstacles for landlords to rent out property as
long-term accommodation.

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The plan also outlined ways public-private partnerships could be further
developed to deliver affordable housing — that included in the short term,
within two years, to investigate how affordable homes could be delivered more
efficiently and at a lower cost than at present, and look at the potential of
the Infrastructure Funding and Financing Act to bring forward investment in
infrastructure, including social infrastructure.

Other initiatives included investigating setting up a joint venture company to
buy land and develop it for affordable housing, while partners were already
working with iwi and the housing trust to look at opportunities to use vacant or
under-utilised Crown land through the Land for Housing Programme in the
district.

The draft plan also included investigating opportunities, within the next two
years, where the Kainga Ora Land Programme could enable affordable housing
choices, and for the housing trust to buy land for developments when the
opportunity arose.

Subject to council agreement, it was proposed for the plan to open for community
feedback from May 1 to June 9, along with targeted engagement with, for example,
key developers and employers, community groups and Queenstown Business Chamber
of Commerce networks.

tracey.roxburgh@odt.co.nz

 

 

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