Palmerston North City Council

Continue to build more council houses for vulnerable residents and keep income-related rents.

Support increased housing density within the city boundaries and partner with community housing providers to provide affordable housing.

Fund tenant advocacy groups to enable support to renters.

Establish an emergency housing location with transportable accommodation. (Doubles as accommodation in a natural disaster.)

Partner with Singapore companies to assist with high density housing options closer to the CBD.

Stop 'vanity projects' and prioritize 'human' requirements for housing.

Continue to ensures budgets are made available for social housing as per the ten-year plan budget.

To work on joint venture projects to build affordable housing – not necessarily paid by rate payer.

Seek innovative use of space for housing, such as air space, building upward to reduce sprawl and increase inner city living.

Incentivise developers to focus on meeting the increasing demand for smaller dwellings.

Increase council investment in social housing, collaborating with partners to provide more housing.

Approach developers operating in other areas who convert old commercial buildings into low cost inner city apartments for sale or rent.

Improve the consenting process by setting clear guidelines and reporting to address choke points in the process and improve wait times.

Support the development of empty space within the city and encourage new subdivisions in recently rezoned residential areas.

Work with local community groups to ensure that the council invests in building suitable properties in appropriate locations.

Speed up the consent process and work with the central government to eliminate red tape, which slows the development of new builds.

Encourage partnerships with central government, Kāinga Ora and other housing providers to enable access for first home buyers.

Encourage council to continue reviewing its land holdings and make more land readily available for homes.

Push to increase the supply of medium and high-density housing.

Invest in community housing projects for all types of housing budgets.

Rezone land in the inner city instead of the outer sprawl so people can live, walk or bike close to amenities, work and schools.

Encourage building for long-term tenure for renters in city fringes.

Commit to more council housing for our community struggling to find a place to live.

Provide incentives to get apartments built for city centre living, and build the city up to stop sprawl and protect our farmland.

Incentivise developers to provide a greater diversity of housing types, and to build to higher energy efficiency standards.

Increase social housing investment, working with partners to fill gaps left by the private market and central government.

Improve the speed of issuing building consents.

Negotiate with the government on issues relating to housing and homelessness, by providing subsidies to help people to rent to buy houses.

Vacant houses ought to be able to accommodate people. Landlords assisted with subsidies to keep up with the healthy homes standards.

Commit to a solid interactive and auto-updated listing system of available and potential housing and matching them to those in need.

Commit to finding all potential options for provision of housing with options for those happy with high-rise accommodation as well as units.

Create incentives for those with space on their properties, allowing them to make needed extra income from homing people effectively.

Establish tiny homes suburbs, fully self-sufficient homes for affordable housing, I own one, and I have never lived so cheap and happily.

Commit to a homeless shelter or refuge or help provide more for existing establishments.

Advocate for infill housing to protect as much agricultural land as possible. Support greenfield development to address housing shortage.

Advocate for managed streetscape improvements in our CBD. Protecting our city heart from urban decay.

Strongly support Palmerston North City Council investment in social housing as this addresses the housing shortage and social well-being of residents.

Support rezoning land and reviewing District Plan provisions to ensure land supply meets National Policy Statement requirements without excessive urban sprawl.

Identify council and government land to be used for affordable housing. Be proactive in promoting affordable and social housing.

Ensure that housing development is guided by structure plans and that greenfield development is directed away from high-class soils.

Work in partnership with community housing providers to ensure their engagement with council assists them to deliver additional housing.

Encourage inner city residential development through appropriate policy.

Streamline the consenting process to make it a user friendly process.

Increase affordable housing: transitional, social, private rental and home ownership.

Ensure balance in horizontal and vertical development and the right mix of small and larger homes.

Maintain and grow green spaces, including family-centred recreational developments.

Continue to supply council supported public housing.

Cap or comparative rents for council owned rental properties, especially for seniors.

Work with the organisations trying to do night shelter project.

Improve the timeliness of consent applications by working with the development sector to improve housing supply outcomes.

Ensure a healthy community where everyone has access to healthy, safe and affordable housing.

Enable intensification in more locations. Require higher density outcomes for redevelopment in certain locations, through the District Plan.