As a National Peak Body for Māori Housing, it was imperative that Te Matapihi provided a submission to the Environment Committee for the Kāinga ora - Homes and Communities Bill

The Environment Committee agreed to invite Te Matapihi to make a submission on the bill. July 17, Te Matapihis General Manager supported by our Lead Communications Advisor, appeared before the select committee to speak to our submission.

This Resource is to keep you up to date with our advocacy within the Māori Housing Sector. This article is a contribution from our Lead Policy and Engagement Advisor, Wayne Knox who shares the strong values that underpin our organisation, while also detailing its future ambitions as New Zealand’s peak body for Māori housing.

He Whare Āhuru He Oranga Tangata (The Māori Housing Strategy) was presented in 2014 under then housing minister Hon Nick Smith alongside Hon Tariana Turia. The strategy sets out to achieve two major outcomes and six directions over the period of 2014 to 2025.

HLC (Homes. Land. Community) has provided this public flyer, intended for ngā mana whenua groups of Tāmaki Makaurau, extending information regarding their vision for and capability to co-provide community housing alongside treaty partners of Tāmaki Makaurau. HLC have a strong focus on Māori housing needs moving forward, ensuring that a variety of positive community-based outcomes are reinforced holistically through prospective housing projects.

In summary, this reports provides extensive research conducted to explore the plethora of legal issues regarding the Rebuild of Christchurch and its surrounding areas. Chapter four provides an introduction to the current law and policy that seeks to enable multiple housing on Māori freehold land.

Māori and indigenous housing annotated bibliography, prepared by Dr. Diane Menzies for National Science Challenge Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities.

This booklet is a guide to whānau papakāinga housing available to you, your whānau and community. This guide sets out a step-by-step process to assist whānau to plan for and complete papakāinga housing on Māori Freehold and in some cases General Land, with checklists, tips, advice and case studies to progress your papakāinga housing development as a six step approach.

The housing, in close proximity to the Marae, provides eight units in addition to the existing Kaumātua housing on site and aims to assist in returning tribe elders to papakāinga land while engaging with the Ngāti Whātua community. 

At the heart of the Pūkaki Papakāinga project is the alienation of a whānau from their tupuna whenua at Pūkaki and their deeply held desire to come home together.

Place of Hidden Waters represents culturally and environmentally responsive new housing for the Puyallup Tribe in the Pacific Northwest

The Apsaalooke Nation Housing Authority’s Good Earth Lodges project is a compressed earth block housing pilot on the Crow Indian Reservation, Montana. At the time of writing, seven homes have been completed and six more are nearing completion.

Owe’neh Bupingeh, the traditional name for the Ohkay Owingeh village center, is believed to have been occupied for at least 700 years. This multiphased project balances rehabilitation with functional renovations of the homes, permitting contemporary life and cultural traditions to comfortably coexist and allowing families to return to the sacred core of the Pueblo.