axe a further 310 roles<\/a>, 46 of which were vacant. That was slightly less than the 321 it proposed in September.<\/p>\nIt takes the total number of roles disestablished this year to 540.<\/p>\n
K\u0101inga Ora chief executive Matt Crockett said the job losses announced today were a result of merging its urban planning, housing delivery and construction teams into one, called the housing delivery group.<\/p>\n
“This new group supports our reduced social housing delivery volumes and the use of our new Housing Delivery System – a delivery operating model proven to increase our reliability, speed and capability when building homes,” he said.<\/p>\n
The new structure would be implemented by the beginning of February.<\/p>\n
“We continue to work with our housing delivery partners throughout to ensure all contracted work progresses as usual.”<\/p>\n
But the Public Service Association said social housing faced an uncertain future.<\/p>\n
“K\u0101inga Ora has been a success story, housing thousands of families in new builds – now we have no plan B,” national secretary Duane Leo said.<\/p>\n
“The need is not going away, and we have no detail on how the gap is going to be filled by community housing providers.”<\/p>\n
People losing their jobs were critical to the planning, design and construction of social houses – like architects, technical advisors, project coordinators, urban designers, spatial planners, and quality assurance experts, he said.<\/p>\n
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