Assessment of eligibility : Contents
Clients in specific circumstances - Residency
A client must meet the residency requirements to qualify for social housing.
For more information see:
- Australian clients
- Cook Islands, Niue and Tokelau clients
- British clients
- People holding a temporary visa who are compelled to remain in New Zealand
- Spontaneous or convention refugee or asylum seeker
- New Zealand Refugee Quota Programme
- Client is recognised as a refugee or a protected person under the Immigration Act 2009
- Temporary Entry Class Visa - visitors, work and students
- Clients partner is not residentially qualified
- Client holds a Christchurch Response Visa
- Client qualifies for and is getting Special Needs Grant Family Violence Programme
- Client is eligible for getting a main benefit
Legislation
- Ministerial directions to agency section 102 Public and Community Housing Management Act 1992
- Allocation of social housing section 129 Public and Community Housing Management Act 1992
- Age and residential qualification clause 5 Ministerial Direction on Eligibility for Social Housing
