The recent Budget announced $380 million for Māori housing development to build 1000 homes including papakāinga (ancestral land housing), rentals, transitional, and owner-occupied housing. The funding would also go towards repairs to 700 Māori owned homes, and help progress housing projects and infrastructure from the $3.8 billion Housing Acceleration Fund. The Budget money allocated to housing was available to be used for papakāinga developments like Te Kekeu where more projects were planned to be built, Jackson said. Developing papakāinga was part of connecting whānau wellbeing, health and housing, he said.
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Along with a swag of other MPs, Jackson visited Taranaki iwi housing projects on Friday to discuss recent Budget funding.
Rotorua Lakes Council spends more than $100k on withdrawn wastewater discharge stoush
17 Feb, 2021 02:09 AM
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Renee Kiriona. Photo / Andrew Warner
Rotorua Lakes Council spent more than $100,000 in the space of three months on an Environment Court case it later withdrew from.
The case was in relation to the council s plan to discharge treated wastewater into Lake Rotorua, which was challenged by Te Arawa Lakes Trust in 2018.
The action was withdrawn at the end of August, with the council, Central North Island Iwi Holdings and Te Arawa Lakes Trust working collaboratively toward a solution, according to a council release at the time.
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