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The July 2018 edition of the Auckland Council Research and Evaluation Unit's newsletter. Articles: Auckland Unitary Plan rural subdivision appeals in the Environment Court Cost benefit analysis of natural environment options for the Auckland Council Long-term Plan Fish passage enhancements in Auckland streams Integrating the FARMLUC land use classification for Auckland Lake Pupuke water quality and underwater divers  .

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The April 2018 edition of the Auckland Council Research and Evaluation Unit's newsletter. Articles: Auckland Council's marine monitoring programme Constructing Auckland Consumption-based emissions Gender-responsive transport Kaipara Harbour sediment mitigation study  .

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Commissioned by Te Miringa Trust, produced by Lifewise Our intent: To understand the particular needs and experiences of women (including those from the Rainbow community) experiencing homelessness in the Auckland City Centre. In 2016, the Sisters of Mercy were invited to form groups to reflect on Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si, which called to look at the needs of the earth, our common home. Groups were asked to explore a practical action by praying, researching and reflecting on a need.

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A covenant is a contract or promise between parties that binds them to obligations in a contract for a fixed period of time, or in perpetuity. Covenants ‘run with the land’, meaning they bind owners of the land to a covenant’s condition. In recent decades they have become a common method for developers to control how future owners of land develop and maintain land in New Zealand (Quality Planning, 2013; New Zealand Productivity Commission, 2015).

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The State of the Nation report this year is the eleventh report The Salvation Army’s Social Policy Parliamentary Unit has completed. New Zealand as a nation has changed in many ways over this time and each of these reports have served as markers along the way. In this report, we have analysed the 2017 year, measuring the key social indicators, as previously, but we have also endeavoured to look back over 10 years to provide an indicator of social progress over a more extended period of time.

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Northland Regional Council (NRC) with support from Auckland Council (AC) and Ministry for the Environment (MfE) have contracted a consortium led by Streamlined Environmental Ltd and consisting of Streamlined Environmental, Landcare Research, NIWA, and the University of Otago, to conduct the Kaipara Harbour Sediment Mitigation Study (KHSMS). The first objective of the KHSMS is to develop a catchment economic model for use in assessing the economic costs and environmental benefits of a range of scenarios for mitigating sediment losses to rivers and estuaries within the Kaipara Harbour catchment. The second aim of the Study is to develop a management tool for use in formulating consistent farm-scale sediment mitigation plans.

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The land use capability (LUC) classification describes eight classes of land across New Zealand1. The versatility of the land decreases as you move from LUC class 1 through the scale towards class 8. LUC class 1 land is defined as being highly versatile with negligible physical limitations for arable or rural farming use, whereas LUC class 8 is classified as land which has very severe to extreme physical limitations making it unsuited to agricultural, horticultural or plantation forestry use.

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New Zealand local government elections take place every three years by postal vote. Auckland Council is responsible for ensuring all eligible Aucklanders can participate in the city’s elections. With a voter turnout of less than 40 per cent (38.

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*A homelessness plan for Tāmaki Makaurau* Auckland Council is working with partners to develop a regional, cross sectoral homelessness plan for Tāmaki Makaurau. Partners include government agencies, non-government service providers, philanthropic organisations, mana whenua, academia and the private sector. The plan will deliver collaborative, cross sectoral initiatives for the Auckland region, to ensure homelessness is rare, brief and non-recurring.

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The authority will be a new Crown agency with two key roles: Being a world class public landlord and leading small and large-scale urban development projects in partnership with other agencies, local government, iwi and private partners. It will consolidate all three essential centres of development capability. – Housing New Zealand and its subsidiary HLC, and KiwiBuild – and include Housing New Zealand’s existing role as a public landlord and in delivering housing products and services.

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Across the developed world, there is increasing recognition that the nature of global growth following the Global Financial Crisis has not delivered equally for all communities. While the global economy has slowly recovered since 2012, it has become clear many of those who were less prosperous prior to the crisis remain so and are benefiting least from the recovery. There has been a huge growth in inequality, with the gap between rich and poor wider than at anytime since World War Two.

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Tātai tāngata ki te whenua Wāhanga Tuarua: Te Heke, te Noho Tāone, te Kanorau me te Tuakiri o te Ira Tāngata Future Demographic Trends for Māori – Part Two is the second in a series of three reports by Te Puni Kōkiri which collate a range of baseline population statistics, trends and projections for Māori. The series draws together data about the Māori population, the national population and the global population, in order to provide a wider, at times overlooked, context to the future challenges facing Māori. Together the reports cover ten demographic issues: population size, growth and age structure (this report) migration, urbanisation, diversity and identity (report two) households and families, work and education (report three).