27 November 2024
HUD2024-005640
P Robins
[FYI request #29040 email]
Tēnā koe P Robins
Thank you for your email of 4 November 2024 requesting the following information under the
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all emails, text messages, and Teams messages sent or received by the Ministry's Office of
the Chief Executive that include the phrase 'social housing' during the period from
November 20, 2023, to December 22, 2023
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The documents are outlined in the Annex A and provided to you below.
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Ngā mihi
Jo Hughes
Deputy Chief Executive, Strategy, Insight and Governance
Te Tūāpapa Kura Kāinga – Ministry of Housing and Urban Development
Annex A: Document schedule
Documents released – HUD2024-005640
Date
Document
Section of the
Act applied
1 24 November 2023 Email: Cab paper – Housing elements
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2 7 December 2023
Email: Social Housing Evaluation
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3 20 December 2023 Email: Housing Assistance Framework
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From:
Jo Hughes
To:
Pip Fox; Brad Ward; Anne Shaw; Andrew Crisp
Cc:
Bronwyn Lauten
Subject:
FW: Cab paper - housing elements
Date:
Friday, 24 November 2023 6:18 02 pm
Attachments:
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Hi team
Thanks for speedy input on this. Response to DPMC below.
Jo
From: Jo Hughes
Sent: Friday, November 24, 2023 6:17 PM
To: Jason Raven [DPMC] <Jason.Raven@dpmc govt.nz>; Pip Fox <Pip.Fox@hud govt.nz>
Subject: RE: Cab paper - housing elements
Thanks for sight of this Jason.
A few alterations below. Feel free to call if you’d like to discuss.
Re item 37, any timing within the 100 days is probably workable for a Cab paper so we haven’t put in a suggestion.
Jo
Jo Hughes
Director, Office of the Chief Executive
Jo Hughes@hud govt nz | Phone: +64 4 832 2583 | Mobile s 9(2)(a)
www hud govt nz | Level 9, 7 Waterloo Quay, Pipitea, Wellington
From: Jason Raven [DPMC] <[email address]>
Sent: Friday, November 24, 2023 4:40 PM
To: Pip Fox <[email address]>
Cc: Jo Hughes <[email address]>
Subject: RE: Cab paper
Thank you, and sorry I’ve been meaning to get you the housing part for input but things have been chaotic!
The body of the paper doesn’t have any immediate housing decisions, but there is an annex which contains a full list of all 100 day actions along with
proposed next steps. Could you please have a look over the table below and let me know if anything needs to change. I think ideally by mid morning
tomorrow.
PLEDGE/COMMITMENT
LEAD PORTFOLIO
PROPOSED NEXT ACTIONS
33
Out of Scope
37
Establish a priority one category on the
Social Development –
Cab
· Minister to report back to Cabinet [by date] on how to
social housing waitlist to move families out
part of this has been
best create a new category on the social housing waitlist
of emergency housing into permanent
Housing for previous fast-
for families in emergency housing, including ensuring the
homes more quickly
tracks but happy to discuss
entry criteria for the allocation of emergency housing are
what makes best sense
appropriate
here
Out of Scope
From: Hayley Hamilton <[email address]>
Sent: Thursday, December 7, 2023 1:19 PM
To: Jeremy Steele <[email address]>; Anne Shaw
<[email address]>; Bronwyn Hollingsworth
<[email address]>
Cc: Simon MacPherson <[email address]>
Subject: Social housing valuation
Afternoon,
in case this is useful for thinking about flows etc., please see below the link
to the Social Housing Valuation we did in 2015:
Social Housing Valuation report 2015 - Ministry of Social Development (msd.govt.nz)
Regards, Hayley
Hayley Hamilton (she/her)| GM – Housing, Employment and Climate Change Policy
Ministry of Social Development
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