NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 41

17 APRIL 2014

specified area means the districts of the following territorial authorities:

(a) Christchurch District Council;

(b) Hurunui District Council;

(c) Selwyn District Council;

(d) Waimakariri District Council.

suitability means whether the person’s household needs to move from their current accommodation having regard to—

(a) security of tenure of current accommodation (for example, how immediate is the person’s need to leave their current accommodation);

(b) medical, disability, or personal needs that are contributing to the person’s need to move from their current accommodation;

(c) the degree to which a property is overcrowded having regard to the guidelines as set out in Schedule 2.

sustainability means the likelihood of a person being able to retain housing other than social housing, taking into account factors such as a person’s money management skills and social skills, and history of transience.

4. Eligibility for social housing—For a person to be eligible to be allocated social housing he or she—

(a) must meet the basic age and residency qualifications in clause 5; and

(b) must meet the income and asset thresholds in clause 6, except as provided for in subclause 6.3; and

(c) must have a housing need of a kind set out in clause 7.

5. Age and residential qualification—(1) The basic age qualifications are that the person—

(a) is aged 18 years or older; or

(b) is aged 16 or 17 years and be, or have previously been, married or in a civil union; or

(c) is 16 or 17 years of age, single or in a de facto relationship, subject to that person obtaining, under the Minors Contracts Act 1969 from the Tenancy Tribunal or a District Court, approval to enter into a tenancy agreement in respect of particular social housing.

(2) The basic residential qualifications are that the person is ordinarily resident in New Zealand and—

(a) is a New Zealand citizen; or

(b) is a permanent resident who has been in New Zealand for more than two years since he or she became a permanent resident.

(3) A person is deemed to have met the basic residential qualifications in subclause 5.2 if he or she is eligible for, and receiving, a main benefit.

6. Income and asset thresholds—(1) A person must meet the income and asset thresholds in Schedule 3.

(2) The income and assets of a person include the income and assets of any other person who would, together with the person, be an applicable person in relation to any social housing that may be allocated to the person.

(3) Where a person does not meet the income and asset thresholds in subclause 6.1 but meets the criteria in clause 7, the agency may, in its discretion, determine that person as eligible for social housing.

7. Housing need—(1) A person must have a persistent housing need that is—

(a) serious; or

(b) severe and must be addressed immediately.

(2) In determining the housing need in subclause 7.1, the Agency must have regard to the following factors:

(a) Affordability;

(b) adequacy;

(c) suitability;

(d) accessibility;

(e) sustainability.

(3) If a person lives in a specified area, in determining whether that person has a persistent housing need in subclause 7.1, the agency may from time to time disregard either or both of the factors set out in paragraphs (a) and (d) of subclause 7.2.

Schedule 1

Calculation of Affordability Formula

A reference to "person" includes any other person who would, together with the person, be an applicable person in relation to any social housing that may be allocated to the person.