Dwell's office team (L-R) Katie, Alison, Liz and Alice.

It has been a busy and unusual year for the Dwell team, with many changes. Firstly our long standing chair Paul Scholey went to live in Melbourne in January for most of the year. Paul has remained on the board but he is taking a break as chair. Angela Wilson is our interim chair until Paul returns to NZ at the end of November.

One of our strategic goals is better services. As part of our aim to continually improve what we do and ensure what we do is best practice we have undertaken a number of activities.

Review of our service

As part of our aim to continually improve what we do and ensure what we do is best practice we decided to review our supported housing service. We contracted Alice Peycke to undertake this review with us. We have been talking with our stakeholders and have consulted and read as much as we can.

Vennell St
In January Wellington Mayor Celia Wade-Brown and Dwell staff, board, supporters and partners celebrated the completion of our four new three bedroom homes at Vennell Street, Brooklyn.

The homes were built by Primesite Homes Ltd on land sold to us by Wellington City Council, and the project was jointly funded by the government and Dwell. Two of the four homes are part of Dwell's new shared home ownership programme for first home buyers. The programme is the first of its kind for Wellington. The other two homes will be affordable rentals and we will be receiving income related rent subsidies for them.