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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.
Read MoreHLC (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.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreMāori and indigenous housing annotated bibliography, prepared by Dr. Diane Menzies for National Science Challenge Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities.
Read MoreBased on a household survey conducted for this study plus decennial census and ACS data, this study compares Native Hawaiian households in Hawaii statewide to the subset of Native Hawaiian households eligible (household head must be at least 50 percent Native Hawaiian by blood quantum) to assume a lease on the Hawaiian home lands, which comprise more than 200,000 acres of trust land administered by the State of Hawaii’s Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL).
Read MoreThe annual Hawai‘i Housing Planning Study (HHPS) has been conducted as a series of comprehensive assessments of housing markets in Hawai‘i since 1992. The 2016 study, which includes a section on Housing and Native Hawaiians, estimates that more than 4,000 new units will be needed for Native Hawaiians by 2020.
Read MoreThis project was supported by Tauranga City Council (TCC) and the Bay of Plenty District Health Board (BOPDHB) on behalf of the Tauranga Homelessness Steering Group. The research was undertaken by Rachel Hatch, a third year social work student from Waikato University who was working on a student placement between both organisations in the latter half of 2016
Read MoreThis practice based research investigates the conditions which restrict Māori from building sustainable and affordable housing in urban and rural areas, and explores ways to overcome these barriers through an affordable housing development located in Kaitaia.
Read MoreThis study investigated issues related to housing among low-income American Indians and Alaska Natives (AIANs) living in urban areas.
Read MoreThe Section 184 Loan Guarantees for Indian Housing program, established in 1992, encourages private lenders to make home loans to Native Americans. Section 184 loans are 100 percent guaranteed and can be made to enrolled tribal members for homes in eligible areas, which are proposed by participating tribes and reviewed for approval by HUD.
Read MoreThe centerpiece of the assessment of American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) housing conditions is the first ever national survey of American Indian and Alaska Native households in tribal areas.
Read MoreThis research examined how the changing mix of government and non-government, direct and indirect funding influences the provision of services to Indigenous Australians experiencing homelessness.
Read MoreThis report presents the findings of a study of the establishment phase of the Waimahia Inlet housing development in Manukau, Auckland.
Read MoreThe Māori case study in the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment public good science funded research programme ‘Finding the Best Fit: Housing, Downsizing and Older People in a Changing Society’ research project.
Read MoreA major new report by Infrastructure Partnerships Australia, with financial modelling by KPMG, released at the National Press Club, outlines a plan to fix Australia’s struggling public housing system by providing more money and more places for vulnerable households.
Read MoreThe Public Health Lens is the journal of the Public Health Association of New Zealand (PHA). Each issue of the Lens focuses on a current public health topic. The October 2016 edition (Vol 2 No 1), Housing in New Zealand, has been guest edited by Dr Julie Bennett, a Research Fellow for He Kāinga Oranga/Housing and Health Research Programme at the University of Otago, Wellington.
Read MoreThe report draws on existing literature and data to provide an understanding of the housing issues faced by many Māori living in Auckland. Auckland Council technical report, TR2016/026
Read MoreThe Household Incomes Report provides information on the material wellbeing of New Zealanders as indicated by their household incomes from all sources from 1982 to 2015.
The report uses data from Statistics New Zealand’s 2014-15 Household Economic Survey (HES) to update the previous report in the series which had information to 2014.
Read MoreChanges in home-ownership patterns 1986–2013: Focus on Māori and Pacific people explores the changes in tenure patterns (home ownership and renting) between 1986 and 2013, but focuses particularly on changes within the Māori and Pacific populations.
Read MoreThis research paper, commissioned by community funders across the Bay of Plenty region, looks at a wide range of housing issues affecting Tauranga City, Western Bay of Plenty, Whakatane, Opotiki, Kawerau, Rotorua and Taupo, and provides recommendations on potential roles and opportunities for Community Funders to make a positive impact.
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