Social Housing Finance

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HUD is the Government’s primary advisor on housing and urban development. We provide advice on policy and legislation, collect and share data and insights to inform decisions, fund a range of programmes to deliver more housing and urban development where it is most needed, regulate CHPs and monitor Kāinga Ora and Tāmaki Regeneration Company.

We would like to hear from institutional investors with significant capital and/or intermediaries with recent experience of raising significant capital for Social Housing or other social infrastructure who are keen to share ideas/suggestions on how we can:
• Improve access to and the cost of Social Housing finance; and
• Support Social Housing providers to provide more social housing, at a lower cost and better value for money for Government.
At this stage we are focusing specifically on Social Housing funded through Income Related Rent Subsidy (IRRS) and provided by registered Community Housing Providers (CHPs).

We believe that you should respond to this RfI if you are:
1. An institutional investor that has provided finance (either equity or debt) for Social Housing;
2. An institutional investor that has considered providing finance (either equity or debt) for Social Housing or intends to do so in the future; or
3. A financial intermediary or advisor with experience in raising finance (either equity or debt) for Social Housing projects,
and would like to share insights gained from this experience to help us identify opportunities to improve access to and the cost of Social Housing finance across Aotearoa New Zealand.