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Hon Maryan Street

Affordable Housing: Enabling Territorial Authorities Bill

Government Bill

189—1

Contents

Explanatory note

3 Act binds the Crown

Part 1
Meeting housing needs

4 Interpretation

6 What this Act does about affordable housing and social housing

Territorial authority may assess need for affordable housing

7 Decision to assess

8 Method of assessment

What must be covered in affordable housing policy

9 Outcomes and objectives

10 Criteria for application of policy to development

11 Actions required of persons doing developments

12 Actions required of territorial authorities

13 Criteria for allocation

14 Methods of retention

15 Objections and appeals

Territorial authority may prepare draft affordable housing policy

16 Preparation of draft

17 Consultation on draft

18 Consideration of draft

Territorial authority may adopt affordable housing policy

19 Decision on adoption of policy

Territorial authority must communicate policy

20 Telling public about adoption of policy

21 Telling applicants for consents about policy

22 Telling affected persons about decision to apply policy

23 Telling affected persons about other decisions under policy

Objections and appeals

24 Who may object to what

25 Objections made to territorial authority

26 Appeals made to Environment Court

27 Effect on affordable housing policy of objections and appeals

Implementing affordable housing policy

28 Binding commitments may be required

29 No payment of compensation

30 Use of land and money

31 Policies must be aligned

Review and amendment of affordable housing policy

32 Review: requirement and process

33 Amendment: process

Relationship with Resource Management Act 1991

34 Environment Court to decide

35 Some are void

Transitional provisions

37 Building consents

38 Resource consents

Part 2
Amendments to other enactments

40 Amendments to Building Act 2004

41 Amendments to Housing Corporation Act 1974

42 Amendments to Local Government Act 2002

The Parliament of New Zealand enacts as follows: