considering next steps <\/a>for the homes, which could include remediation, redevelopment or potential divestment.<\/p>\nInformation received under the Official Information Act last month from K\u0101inga Ora said it intended to sell the nine homes. <\/p>\n
It said K\u0101inga Ora received weather-tightness reports in September, advising that three of the properties were not safe for occupancy.<\/p>\n
The remaining units were habitable but required recladding within six to 12 months and remedial work to interior components.<\/p>\n
In a Wednesday statement this week, K\u0101inga Ora Bay of Plenty regional director Mark Rawson said no remedial work would be done on the homes before the sale. <\/p>\n
Rawson said it continually reviewed its properties that required redevelopment to ensure they were still \u201cfit for purpose\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve weighed up several options for this site, taking a careful, value-for-money approach.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rawson said several factors informed decisions about whether homes were retained or sold – age, condition, location and long\u2011term redevelopment potential were key considerations.<\/p>\n
\u201cThrough this feasibility work, it became clear that addressing the leaking building issues would not represent value for money.\u201d<\/p>\n
The decision to sell was made late last year, he said.<\/p>\n
The site was subject to Right of First Refusal (RFR) requirements under Treaty settlement obligations, Rawson said.<\/p>\n
He said Ng\u0101ti Ranginui had now confirmed they would not be exercising their RFR over Jacaranda Close.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith the RFR process now concluded, we are reassessing the next steps of the sale process.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rawson said proceeds from the sale would be reinvested in K\u0101inga Ora\u2019s public housing portfolio.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s important to note that we are not reducing the number of K\u0101inga Ora homes. For each existing K\u0101inga Ora home sold, a newly built home is delivered elsewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Nine K\u0101inga Ora homes will be sold after the agency investigated ‘weather-tightness issues’ at its properties on Jacaranda Close in Brookfield last year. Photo \/ Ayla Yeoman<\/p>\n
The information received from K\u0101inga Ora last month showed property reports were commissioned in 2017 after rainwater got into the garages at five properties. <\/p>\n
Actions taken in response included garage wall linings being replaced and repainted, mould being cleaned, and drainage being upgraded, it said.<\/p>\n
K\u0101inga Ora acquired the land from the Crown in 1986 for the purpose of state housing, paying between $39,599 and $41,696 per property.<\/p>\n
An Auckland consultancy company submitted the resource consent for the properties for K\u0101inga Ora, which was approved in 1997. <\/p>\n
K\u0101inga Ora said it did not have a record of who the contractor was that built the homes.<\/p>\n
Megan Wilson<\/a> is a health and general news reporter for the Bay of Plenty Times and the Rotorua Daily Post. She has been a journalist since 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Accessible Properties terminated 11 tenancies on August 18 after testing and an in-depth building survey revealed \u201csignificant damage\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,5195,12683,651,22510,18841,1874,3339,62957,203689,111,43,139,37968,69,5257,1072,3235,85431,1227,61,131927,29415,1533],"class_list":{"0":"post-394258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-be","10":"tag-buildings","11":"tag-close","12":"tag-damage","13":"tag-demolished","14":"tag-found","15":"tag-housing","16":"tag-integrity","17":"tag-jacaranda","18":"tag-new-zealand","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-newzealand","21":"tag-nine","22":"tag-nz","23":"tag-significant","24":"tag-social","25":"tag-sold","26":"tag-structural","27":"tag-tauranga","28":"tag-to","29":"tag-twelve","30":"tag-units","31":"tag-will"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}