Applying for registration

The application process involves a detailed and comprehensive review of the applicant’s capacity to meet the eligibility criteria and the performance standards. Consequently, all applicants could experience a waiting period of up to six months from the application being accepted to when it is allocated for the full assessment. 

To apply for registration your organisation will need to:

1. ensure you meet the eligibility criteria
2. obtain Board approval for an application
3. meet with us to discuss your organisations suitability for registration. Before we can provide you with a copy of the application form, we need to ensure you are able to meet the eligibility criteria, discuss our requirements in regard to the performance standards and financial viability, and that your organisation can provide appropriate long-term housing services
4. fill out the application form and assemble the required supporting documentation, ensuring the Chair has signed the application form
5. submit the completed application form and all supporting documents.

To become registered, applicants need to provide all information required (as set out in the performance standards and guidelines). This will prevent any additional delays in the application being accepted and processed. Please see the how to apply page for further information to assist in the submission of a successful application.

Our steps

We will:

1. review your application for eligibility and completeness. If your application is complete, we will advise you it has been accepted, awaiting allocation. Incomplete applications or applications which do not meet the expected standard will be returned and not put in the assessment queue
2. assess your application, examining your capacity to meet the eligibility criteria and performance standards
3. present a registration recommendation to the Head of the Community Housing Regulatory Authority (CHRA), who decides whether to grant registration or not
4. inform you of our decision
5. send you an evaluation report setting out the analysis that led to our decision. 

If your application is not accepted or declined

If an application is not accepted, or we subsequently decline the application because of significant gaps in the information provided, we do not provide a detailed summary of our findings. You will instead receive an email advising of the reason/s it was not accepted or declined.

If a new application is submitted by the same organisation in the future and is accepted, it will be treated as a new application.

An important note about income-related rental subsidies (IRRS)

While registered CHPs are eligible to partner with Te Tūāpapa Kura Kāinga – Ministry of Housing and Urban Development to supply IRRS tenancies, obtaining a contract is not automatic, and is at the discretion of the Housing and Support team.

For more information about funding opportunities, visit the providing public housing page on their website(external link).