Sustaining Tenancies

We help you keep a roof over your head. Lifewise Community Housing Services gives you tools to help you manage your money, make sense of benefits and be independent, so you can keep living in your home.

We offer practical support to help you stay housed.

Email Address

SustainingTenancies@lifewise.org.nz

Phone Number

021 917 460

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What we do

If you are finding it hard to manage your tenancy or are at risk of losing it, we provide practical and emotional support. We can also connect you with other services.

We help with things like:

Helping set up your home, e.g. connecting utilities
Connecting you to other social services
Understanding your finances and helping with managing debt or arrears
Advocating for you
Any other assistance that helps you successfully hold on to your tenancy.

Basically, anything that will help you to cope with your tenancy! The service is free and we will work with people typically between 3 – 12 months, depending on what is needed.

You can get support for yourself or for somebody else

We cover central Auckland (west to Avondale) and can support you if:

you live in central Auckland
you are aged 18 or over
you live in a residential tenancy or are about to move into one
you agree to regular support

This service is free. All you need to do is give us a call or complete a referral form and a privacy and consent form.

You can ask to be referred by your Support Worker, or through other services such as a Probation Service, a Drug and Alcohol Treatment programme, or a doctor.

Have a plan that suits you

We’re flexible in the way we work with you. We can give you one-off support or work with you for up to a year. We can organise a mixture of phone calls, visits to your home, emails, or online meetings. Once you have things sorted out, we’ll check in again after a month and in three months.

We want to work with you. To plan with you, and support you support you to achieve your goals.

We’ll walk alongside you and: