Ministerial Direction on Continued Eligibility for Social Housing

Unofficial consolidated version of the Ministerial Direction on Continued Eligibility for Social Housing
-- as at 4 September 2026

Dated at Wellington this 11th day of June 2014

Hon Bill English, Minister of Finance

Hon Paula Bennett, Minister for Social Development

Hon Dr Nick Smith, Minister of Housing

Pursuant to section 102(2)(b) of the Public and Community Housing Management Act 1992 (the Act), the Minister of Finance, the Minister of Housing, and the Minister for Social Development (the joint Ministers), after consultation with the Agency appointed under section 100 of the Act and the Regulatory Authority appointed under section 159 of the Act, give the following direction to the Agency.

Contents

1 Title

2 Commencement

3 Interpretation

4 Continued Eligibility for Social Housing

5 Residential Qualifications

6 Income and Asset Thresholds

7 Housing Need

Schedule 1 - Calculation of Affordability Formula

Schedule 2 - Income and Asset Thresholds

Explanatory note

List of amendments