Ref: DOIA 1718-0142

 

Dear Ms Mechum

 

On behalf of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment I
acknowledge your email of 25 July 2017 requesting under the Official
Information Act 1982 (the Act), the following:

 

Cabinet Committee Minute SOC (10) 28/1 featured a section entitled
"Greater involvement of third party providers of social housing"

 

Within that section the Minute...(6) directed the Department of Building
and Housing (DBH), in consultation with the Treasury and the State
Services Commission (SSC), to report to the Minister of Finance, the
Minister of State Services, and the Minister of Housing by 31 March 2011
on the future structure of the social housing sector, including the future
role of HNZC as a provider of social housing;

(7) Noted that the preconditions for greater third party participation in
the provision of social housing are:

7.1 clear specification of social housing providers' rights and
obligations through the regulation and potential registration of approved
providers;

7.2 financial assistance to tenants to enable them to meet a reasonable
rent;

7.3 an independent and nationally consistent system for allocating tenants
to properties;

7.4 access to a subsidy to the housing provider, either operating or
capital, to improve the value proposition;

7.5 potentially, a mechanism to mitigate the risk of fluctuating incomes,
for example due to vacancies and arrears;

7.6 certainty of cash flow, which includes certainty around the criteria
and quantum of Crown subsidies to cover operating costs;

 

The Minute then....(8) directed DBH, in consultation with the Treasury, to
report to the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Housing by 30 June
2011 with advice on how to facilitate increased third party provision of
social housing, including how to establish the necessary preconditions
including practical steps that can be put into action quickly;

 

I request copies of the reports referred to in point 6 and point 8 of the
cabinet minute. I also request any working documents, drafts, literature
review documents, and meeting minutes associated with the production of
these reports.

 

Your request is being processed in accordance with the Act and a response
will be sent to you in due course. If you have any enquiries regarding
your request feel free to contact us via email [1][MBIE request email] or
using the contact details below.

 

 

Yours sincerely,

Alan Witcombe

MANAGER, MINISTERIAL SERVICES

 

Corporate, Governance and Information

Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment

Level 4, 15 Stout Street, PO Box 1473, Wellington 6140

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Dear Ms Mechum

 

Please find attached an extension in regards your recent OIA request.

 

 

Regards

Ministerial Adviser

 

Engagement, Communications and Ministerial Services

Corporate, Governance and Information

 

 

 

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Dear Ms Mechum

 

Please find attached a letter in response to your Official Information Act
1982 request dated 25 July 2017.

 

Kind regards

 

Edward Firth

Senior Ministerial Writer

 

Engagement, Communications and Ministerial Services

Corporate, Governance and Information

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