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Housing Trust Achieves International Recognition For Secure Home Programme
The Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust (QLCHT) has won an international accolade for its groundbreaking Secure Home Programme.
QLCHT’s Secure Home Programme won the Leading Innovation Award at the Australasian Housing Institute's annual Brighter Future Awards. The Awards are entered by community housing providers from around New Zealand and Australia.
The award recognises new thinking in the housing sector for initiatives or projects that have led to significant change in an organisation, with lessons that can then be applied more broadly to other housing organisations.
QLCHT chair Richard Thomas says the Trust is delighted to win the award, adding that this acknowledgement is a tribute to years of innovation from QLCHT.
“With a number of other organisations across the country now lining up to use our Secure Home programme, we’re incredibly proud of breaking ground here and honoured to receive such recognition,” Thomas says.
The first of its kind in NZ, Secure Home is a
programme where people purchase the properties through a
100-year land lease arrangement, with the Trust retaining
ownership of the land in
perpetuity.
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