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Affordable Housing Scheme Rises in Auckland

The Ted Manson Foundation is building affordable social housing with quality accommodations.
The Ted Manson Foundation is building affordable social housing with quality accommodations.
13 March 2020 | Auckland, New Zealand

Ted Manson is the head of property company Mansons TCLM, and founder of the four-year-old philanthropic Ted Manson Foundation. With his father and now his sons, he has expanded the private property development and investment business into what is arguably the country's wealthiest, and is now taking his wealth in an entirely new direction.

"I woke up one day and I got a social conscience. That happens at some stage of your life for some, but not for all," says Manson.

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Starting with the completion of Life Apartments, an 18-level complex in Aukland’s city center, the Foundation is building affordable social housing with quality accommodations.

With an estimated investment AU$160 million (US$98.5 million) their goal is to build and provide more than 300 apartments for social housing by 2022, “to help those who are struggling, so they're able to take the next step in life for a better future.”

Planning and design by Paul Brown & Associates Architects has resulted in 92 spacious one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments, all with wide vistas over Auckland City.

The apartments were designed to ensure the well-being and health of all occupants, and provide the necessities for urban living in the 21st Century. The brief from the Ted Manson Foundation was to build robust apartments that will have longevity for no less than 50 years. The base build has concrete wall and floors and provides 18 Levels of quality apartments. Efficiencies in the design and construction of the building were built to the highest standards of Housing New Zealand's Community Housing Regulatory Authority.

Construction started in September 2017 and currently more than 100 people are now settled.

For more on this story go to The New Zealand Herald.