Private Public Partnerships On Community Housing Agenda

Sunday, 20 March 2011, 4:45 pm
Press Release: Community Housing Aotearoa

Private Public Partnerships On Community Housing Agenda

PPPs will be a key topic at the fourth national conference of Community Housing Aotearoa, an umbrella group of community housing organisations, next Wednesday (23 March) in Henderson, Auckland.

A change in direction for social housing was signalled by the Government in December, with further details about future housing policy expected to be announced in April.

A policy environment that enables an increase in the number of partnerships between private, public and non-government housing providers is expected to be a central element of that policy announcement.

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Biographies:

Gwyn Llewelyn is an Associate Director in KPMG’s infrastructure advisory team based in Wellington. Gwyn has extensive experience of advising private, not for profit sector providers of social housing and Government within the UK. This experience focuses on public private partnerships and their role in delivering social housing and urban regeneration. Outside of social housing, Gwyn has also advised on PPP in a wide range of other sectors including education, justice and defence, and is currently advising on both the Wiri prison PPP and the first schools property PPP within New Zealand.

Gwyn co-authored a brief paper in 2010 on the topic of accommodating contestability in social housing. This paper stated that real change in the efficiency and delivery of social housing in New Zealand requires “proactive steps to encourage private or third sector investment”. The conclusion made was: “If the New Zealand Government gets this right then the international evidence suggests that this could lead to an improvement in housing stock, a more customer focused approach and an improvement in tenant satisfaction, all while retaining Government control of price and quality and providing better value for money”.

Rob Steel is a manager in the Strategic Management Services team at multinational consultancy Opus. He began his career managing diverse property portfolios before moving to Scotland to establish a consultancy business advising on Public Private Partnership (PPP) urban regeneration schemes. In 2004 he moved to New Zealand. He joined Christchurch City Council and was part of the leadership team responsible for creating a Project Management Office. Rob’s current work at Opus includes facilitating and advising on business case development, PPPs and benefits management. He is a fan of social media and maintains his own blog at http://robsteel.typepad.com/rob-steels-blog/

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Community Housing Aotearoa

Nga Wharerau o Aotearoa

Community Housing Aotearoa is the peak body for New Zealand's community housing sector. Our 110 members build and manage affordable and social housing.

Our Vision is to make sure every New Zealander is well-housed in a warm, safe, dry and affordable home. This is a basic human right.

We work to support the growth and development of community housing providers to enable them to provide affordable and social housing.

We want to demonstrate that community housing is a critical element alongside private and government owned housing. No one can do it alone.

Community Housing Aotearoa aims to:

1. be the voice of the community housing sector
2. build capacity and foster collaboration
3. promote best practice in housing policy
4. champion quality and excellence.

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• Website - communityhousing.org.nz/
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