Tçnâ koe James

I am writing to acknowledge receipt of your email dated 22 May 2024 for information relating to first home grants.

We will endeavour to respond to your request as soon as possible and in any event no later than 20 June 2024, being 20 working days after the day your request was received. If we are unable to respond to your request by then, we will notify you of an extension of that timeframe.

The response date shown takes into account:
• King's Birthday (3 June 2024)

Ngâ mihi

Laisiana Qetaki
Senior Advisor, Government Relations
Government and Sector Relationships Group

Freephone: 0800 801 601 | Kainga Ora – Homes and Communities
PO Box 2628 Wellington 6140 | New Zealand Government | http://www.kaingaora.govt.nz/

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From: James <[FOI #26941 email]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2024 3:48 PM
To: GRU Jobs <[Kāinga Ora request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - First home buyers grant

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Dear Kâinga Ora–Homes and Communities,

Under the OIA I would to request the following;

How many cases have been reported or discovered if any, from Jan 2018 through to May 22 2024 where first home owners have rented out their house within the first 6 months of home ownership without living in it first, thus breaching First Home Grant requirements and rules?

How many prosecutions have there been for the above, if any? What has been the outcome?

What measures were put in place if any, to prevent this happening? What monitoring of this issue if any was carried out and how often?

Thank you.

Yours faithfully,

James

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Tçnâ koe James

Please find attached a response to your 22 May 2024 Official Information Act 1982 request to Kâinga Ora – Homes and Communities.

Ngâ mihi

Laisiana Qetaki
Senior Advisor, Government Relations
Government and Sector Relationships Group

Freephone: 0800 801 601 | Kainga Ora – Homes and Communities
PO Box 2628 Wellington 6140 | New Zealand Government | http://www.kaingaora.govt.nz/

-----Original Message-----
From: James <[FOI #26941 email]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2024 3:48 PM
To: GRU Jobs <[Kāinga Ora request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - First home buyers grant

[You don't often get email from [FOI #26941 email]. Learn why this is important at https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentific... ]

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Dear Kâinga Ora–Homes and Communities,

Under the OIA I would to request the following;

How many cases have been reported or discovered if any, from Jan 2018 through to May 22 2024 where first home owners have rented out their house within the first 6 months of home ownership without living in it first, thus breaching First Home Grant requirements and rules?

How many prosecutions have there been for the above, if any? What has been the outcome?

What measures were put in place if any, to prevent this happening? What monitoring of this issue if any was carried out and how often?

Thank you.

Yours faithfully,

James

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This is an Official Information request made via the FYI website.

Please use this email address for all replies to this request:
[FOI #26941 email]

Is [Kāinga Ora request email] the wrong address for Official Information requests to Kâinga Ora–Homes and Communities? If so, please contact us using this form:
https://fyi.org.nz/change_request/new?bo...

Disclaimer: This message and any reply that you make will be published on the internet. Our privacy and copyright policies:
https://fyi.org.nz/help/officers

If you find this service useful as an Official Information officer, please ask your web manager to link to us from your organisation's OIA or LGOIMA page.

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those of Kâinga Ora. This message and any files transmitted with it are
confidential, may be legally privileged, and are solely for the use of
the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient or the
person responsible for delivery to the intended recipient, you have
received this message in error. Please: (1) reply promptly to that
effect, and remove this email, any attachment and the reply from your
system; (2) do not use, disclose or act on this email in any other way.
Thank you.

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