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Safe and affordable
housing for all
who reside in Taranaki

View the Taranaki Housing Dashboard

Taranaki’s Future Starts at Home

We’re proud to introduce the draft Taranaki Regional Housing Strategy 2025 - a collaborative blueprint designed to shape a more inclusive, resilient, and thriving region. This living document outlines our shared vision for housing, prioritising affordability, quality, Māori housing aspirations, climate resilience, and community wellbeing.

‍Have your say: Explore the draft strategy and complete our feedback survey to help shape housing outcomes for Taranaki. Your insights and experiences are key to creating a region where everyone has a place to call home.

→ Draft Strategy
→ Feedback Survey

About Us

Taranaki Housing Initiative Trust (THIT) was established by Toi Foundation in 2023, with support from community and emergency housing providers, Councils, public sector organisations, lenders and local organisations that are delivering housing support initiatives across Taranaki. Collectively, there is recognition that housing availability, affordability and quality is a regional priority that needs urgent action.

We support the housing sector by giving housing providers and the development community access to capability as well as planning and financial mechanisms that support the development and preservation of affordable housing in Taranaki.

We seek to build awareness of the Taranaki Regional Housing Strategy and progress some of its key interventions with leadership, capability, facilitation and investment.

Why is this needed?

There is increasing demand on Taranaki’s housing system. Together we need to facilitate and invest in urgent, practical and action-orientated solutions to increase public housing, tackle fundamental affordability issues and improve quality across the rohe for Taranaki people.

Taranaki Housing Ecosystem

Demand increasing as people are stuck in this segment for longer - nowhere to move to.
Lack of social and community housing which prevents people moving out of transitional housing.
No plans by any Councils to expand to match growth in ageing population. Low level of Council housing in Stratford.
Ka Uruora and iwi targeting main area of need. Whenua Māori funding available but not being unlocked.
Region better than national averages, but disparities across region in terms of housing inequality for Māori, and housing quality disparities across Districts. Long-term issues are typology (1 & 2 bedrooms), affordability pressures, and limited info on supply for Stratford & South Taranaki.

How we can help

Implementing interventions from the Taranaki Regional Housing Strategy will take collective effort. There are already many organisations and individuals working in this space that are passionate about greatly improving long-term outcomes for our region.

Taranaki Housing Initiative Trust can support housing sector initiatives with facilitation – taking more of an active role in facilitating solutions, helping other organisations to come together and deliver.

Take a look at the current challenges identified in Taranaki’s Housing Ecosystem and our response here.

As we take progressive steps to shift the needle, you can find updates here on our website.

If you want to find out more, visit our FAQs page.

If you want to reach out, then Contact us.

Together we can strengthen the housing sector for Taranaki.
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