PENSIONERS’ COTTAGES
Ministers’ Views
The Minister of Health (Mr Shelton) and the Minister of Housing (Mr Rae) agreed recently that local authorities were the best suited to administer aged pensioners’ housing programmes and should be encouraged to develop those programmes. They also expressed willingness to re-examine the Government subsidies on housing schemes.
The housing committee reported this to the City Council last evening, commenting on the results of a deputation to the Ministers from the Christchurch, Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin City Councils.
The Ministers were asked to review the present financial provisions for pensioners' cottages schemes and to renew the original offer made in 1955 to subsidise them £ for £, based on present-day costs, including land costs, eliminating the fixed ceilings on subsidies. The balance of the capital costs should be made available, if possible, through a “tap loan’' at the lowest interest rate available for housing, the deputation asked.
AU the local authorities represented had been willing to provide accommodation for their elderly citizens, but subsidies and finance should be made available to enable the accommodation to be let at a rental within the means of the pensioner, the committee said.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29516, 18 May 1961, Page 6
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