Keeping Families In Homes If They Lose Their Jobs

This is a nationwide issue

Affecting:

Accommodation, Children, Financial and Banking, Home and Garden,

As many as 100,000 Kiwis are expected to lose their jobs over the next 9 months - these will disproportionally be low income workers, Maori and Pacific Islanders and other ethnic minorities. If these people have mortgages they may find themselves facing imminent foreclosure. What can we do to help?

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Widen Access To Shared Equity Housing Scheme To Newly Unemployed

1 person supports this, addressing Keeping Families In Homes If They Lose Their Jobs

Housing New Zealand is running a shared equity scheme under which the Government owns part of people's houses. If this scheme were extended to the newly unemployed then families could be kept in their houses notwithstanding their losing their jobs. see details