Kāinga Tahi, Kāinga Rua: Māori housing realities and aspirations - chapter summaries
The Kāinga Tahi, Kāinga Rua Kaupapa Māori Research Project draws on expertise from across the Māori housing sector. The project responds to the right and aspiration of Māori researchers, in collaboration with Māori organisations and communities, to develop Māori housing solutions. The outputs of the Kaupapa Māori Research Project include a book Kāinga Tahi, Kāinga Rua: Māori Housing Realities...
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Reflections on kaumātua, pakeke and seniors’ housing
Launched on 2 November 2022 at the Moa Crescent Kaumātua village in Kirikiriroa (Hamilton) this booklet is an information resource to promote better housing for our ageing population. It presents BBHTC/Ageing Well research exploring why changes are needed to our housing system, looks at some imaginative opportunities and shares the housing experiences and aspirations of kaumātua and seniors...
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A critical review of Rangatahi Māori and housing policy
This working paper is a critical review of rangatahi Māori and housing policy in Tāmaki Makaurau, forming part of the research project ‘He tātai whetu ki te rangi, he rangatahi ki te kāinga: Rangatahi pathways to safe, secure and affordable homes’. The review was prepared by and for BBHTC's rangatahi team to identify the gaps and opportunities in the current housing system...
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Huritanga: 10 years of transformational place-making
This book celebrates a decade of Life in Vacant Spaces, affectionately known as LiVS, and the collection of over 700 projects that LiVS have supported in the ten years since the devastating Canterbury earthquakes of 2010/2011. The projects supported by LiVS have varied in shape, scale, location, aims, outputs, participants, and people reached. The book captures just some of the diverse impacts...
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Youth homelessness in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa New Zealand
This scoping report draws attention to youth homelessness in Tāmaki Makaurau. Homelessness is on the rise in Aotearoa New Zealand, with half of those experiencing homelessness under the age of 25. Youth homelessness is documented internationally, but the local context lacks data and literature. The research finds that Māori young people are experiencing some of the worst housing deprivation...
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Dialogues for wellbeing in an ecological emergency
At a time of ecological emergency there are pressing reasons to develop more responsive wellbeing-led governance frameworks that engage with both human and more-than-human wellbeing. Attempts to incorporate wellbeing indices into wellbeing-led governance include the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations, the Gross National Happiness index of Bhutan, and a variety...
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Covid-19 and media constructions of housing and home in Aotearoa New Zealand
Mainstream media persistently reduces housing to a property investment and housing stock as a commodity for trade according to this report, which examines the use of "home" as the central mechanism of defence in national public health measures to manage the COVID-19 pandemic. The response highlighted Aotearoa’s persistent problems with unaffordable and insecure housing...
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Transforming geographies: Performing Indigenous-Māori ontologies...(wellbeing compass)
This paper explores how spatial governance models oriented to the well-being of the more-than-human might better enable Indigenous peoples' capacity to live-well-with and care for our more-than-human whanaunga (kin). The paper considers how a culture of holistic ecological well-being might be spatially emplaced through well-being-led planning tools that ground these ontologies in neighbourhoods, cities. . .
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Exploring the factors affecting Māori home ownership
There are positive associations between homeownership and wellbeing, which make the significant declines in Māori home ownership a topic of concern. This paper examines the pathways for transitioning Māori from a nation of renters to homeowners. Using data gathered throughout a 35-year longitudinal study of a group in Christchurch, we examined cultural connectedness, socio-economic functioning. . .
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“It feels real good having my own space” – Young Māori mothers in the E Hine Study
The provision of good quality housing for young families is a key in supporting health and well-being. This is especially important for young Māori mothers and their children, who experience greater social and health inequities. Low-quality housing can negatively affect health, safety, employment, education, social connectedness, and identity. Seeking the views of young Māori mothers...
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An exploration of the Māori housing-health nexus during the mid-Twentieth Century
Māori died at seven times the national rate during the 1918–1919 influenza pandemic. Government officials noted what they described as the shocking housing conditions experienced by Māori. Despite the connections between Māori health and housing being apparent, the interwar years saw little government response. From the late 1950s and through the 1960s, Māori were able to access...
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Ageing in place as an older tenant: Independence and uncertainty
More people in mid-life and older are renting in New Zealand. This is a significant change. We asked 108 older tenants about their experiences of ‘ageing in place’ in rentals in five areas: Waiheke Island, Marlborough District, Western Bay of Plenty District, Tauranga City and the Hawke's Bay – areas with an older population profile, increasing proportions of older tenants, and unaffordable rents.
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Practicing wellbeing through community economies: an action research approach
Research at the intersection of wellbeing and economy has tried to understand socio-economic ‘development’ differently. Yet it has often done so by conceiving of wellness in narrowly individualistic terms, easily overlapping with economic modelling based on individual rational economic actors. In this chapter, the researchers reclaim wellbeing as a socio-economic concept based not on individual wellness. . .
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Searching for community wellbeing: population, work and housing in the town of Oamaru
Regional settlements experience great variation in social, cultural, environmental and economic change, and the capability and resources they have to manage change. In the Waitaki, the primary rural economy comprises agriculture, associated food processing industries, and the visitor sector. Over recent years, the demand for labour in these sectors has required an increasing workforce of overseas. . .
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Engaging communities in the design of homes and neighbourhoods in Aotearoa
This Counterfutures journal article by Dr Rebecca Kiddle says a successful engagement process empowers communities by acknowledging their mātauranga (place-based knowledge), and by taking the time to build strong relationships that can form the base of all future engagement. Specifically, there is a range of things agencies and those doing the engaging could do. These include: engaging with communities early...
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A house that is a home for whānau Māori
In conversational interviews, 27 Māori were asked what makes a house a home for whānau Māori and how housing supports whānau ora. The analysis is guided by the way the social and material environment is the source of self-identity. For Māori, this material environment extends beyond the four walls of a home and into the whenua, in acknowledgement of the importance of place for a sense of belonging. . .
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Too many costly homes
Aotearoa New Zealand is building more homes now than it has in the last 45 years. This is critical to make up the housing supply deficit of recent years. While more new houses are going up, they’re not necessarily ones that middle and low-income New Zealanders can afford, leaving the housing affordability crisis unresolved. It is well established that New Zealand’s building industry...
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Life when renting for older Māori
The proportion of Māori aged over 55 years living in rental accommodation is likely to rise as home ownership becomes less attainable. To examine what the future of rental accommodation may hold for older Māori, Building Better Researchers Dr Fiona Cram and Morehu Munro interviewed 42 older Māori renters in the Hawke’s Bay region of Aotearoa New Zealand about their experiences...
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Revitalising the production of affordable housing for productive, engaged & healthy...
A dwelling that is priced higher than its residents can afford is no longer a place of comfort and security but an arena of material struggle. It is associated with under-investment in many of the goods and services that generate wellbeing. It contracts rather than expands life chances, and makes social, cultural, and economic participation precarious. This publication brings together...
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Valuing cultural diversity of cities
This paper estimates the impact local cultural diversity has on city wage and rent premiums, and whether diversity is a source of local production and/or consumption of amenities. The researchers find that the presence of people from different cultural backgrounds enhances the profitability of urban firms. In contrast, a city’s population has a weak preference for living near others who are culturally like...
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Designing walkable future neighbourhoods: Considering diversity
Research about walkable neighbourhoods is commonly based on the notion of an adult able-bodied walker. However, people have different physical, social, cultural, emotional, and financial abilities and resources to navigate the neighbourhood landscape. This diversity should be recognised at design and planning stages, along with the recognition that the resident population of a neighbourhood is not static...
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Suburban shopping malls as spaces for community health and human flourishing
As urbanization continues to increase, the focus of urban development needs to shift to the suburban if we are to create cities that offer places to flourish. Suburbanites are increasingly seeking greater opportunities for place attachment, community cohesion and identity. This paper examines the role of semi-public spaces (in this case shopping malls) in Aotearoa suburbs...
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Tūranga ki te marae, e tau ana - Reimagining marae-based kāinga in Tāmaki Makaurau
Houses (and people) were never built to stand in isolation. Rather, whare were to be located in relation to the pā for communal living. Marae are integral to Māori whānau and communities and, throughout the ages, marae have continued to adapt to new contexts. Many marae are actively seeking marae-based kāinga solutions for whānau, hapū, iwi, and communities, and many marae have shown. . .
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Soft infrastructure for hard times
In this report, the researchers present seven case studies looking at various initiatives for rebuilding after the Canterbury earthquake sequence of 2020-2021. They range from community-led projects through to more hybrid approaches, to state-led examples. Though many of the organisations involved were active before the earthquakes, their activities, purpose or way of operating. . .
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An expanded wellbeing framework and urban science data tool for integrated wellbeing
This paper asks how an indigenous-Māori cultural perspective might expand wellbeing discourse with positive effect for wellbeing-led governance. It attends to mauri ora as an indigenous wellbeing construct. For Māori, ora is life, health, and wellbeing, while mauri is that interpenetrating life force which is “immanent in all things, knitting and bonding them together” as a life-field. . .
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Ahakoa te aha, mahingia te mahi - In service to homeless whānau in Tāmaki Makaurau
Just before winter 2016, Te Puea Memorial Marae opened their doors to anyone in desperate need of shelter and support. Since then, the work of the Marae has continued and developed with a focus on supporting whānau to secure housing tenancy and to support home-building for achieve whānau ora. The issue of homelessness is neither new to Māori, nor is it an issue that is separated from wider...
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Wellbeing-led, home-based energy infrastructures and low emissions transport
This think piece explores energy strategies and policy in relation to its generation, usage patterns, and outputs, all within a holistic wellbeing-led framework. The piece emphasises a home-focused energy approach that considers housing, local energy generation and storage, and electric vehicles as a circular zero carbon ecosystem. The researchers investigate a low-carbon Tāmaki Makaurau...
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Exploring Papakāinga: A Kaupapa Māori quantitative methodology
This paper offers a strategy for gathering and analysing large-scale data. The aim is to understand how Māori might better fulfil aspirations for the designing, financing, and building of housing, as well as perceptions of housing and papakāinga, and the contribution this has to Māori wellbeing. The researchers say a study of this kind will contribute new knowledge and better understanding of Māori...
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A really good home for our kaumātua: A toolkit for kaumātua housing
By 2040, 25% of people living in Aotearoa New Zealand will be aged 65-years and over. The He Kāinga Pai Rawa project aimed to find out what made Moa Crescent Kaumātua Village in Kirikiriroa Hamilton, a healthy housing community for Kaumātua. The result was this toolkit designed for anyone working with urban, rural, marae and other communities, who aspires to co-design and build culture-centred. . .
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Te Moemoeā: The Dream
Think Piece One: This first report in a series of three discusses culturally responsive, secure, affordable, and healthy housing for kaumātua. It tells the beginning story of Moa Crescent Kaumātua Village, Kirikiriroa Hamilton, which started in the early 2000s. The researchers ask: what could we learn from the stories of ‘ngā kaiwhatu moemoeā’ (visionaries) about the seeds of potential for kaumātua...
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Kia tūtuki te moemoeā: The road to making the dream/vision a reality
Think Piece Two: This report continues the story of the development of Moa Crescent Kaumātua Village, Kirikiriroa Hamilton. What could we learn from the stories of ngā kaimahi about values, decisions, and processes that enabled kaumātua housing? The journey of becoming in spiritual terms means passing through the many phases of the nights within Te Pō. In order to explore the stories...
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Te ao mārama - Kua ea te moemoeā: Achievement of the dream/vision
Think Piece Three: The third and final report in a series about culturally secure, responsive, affordable, and healthy housing for kaumātua. It explores the stories of being in the realm Te Ao Mārama: Kua ea te Moemoeā: the achievement of the dream/vision stories of kaumātua, their whānau and supporters, from Moa Crescent Kaumātua Village in Kirikiriroa Hamilton. Researchers interviewed 19 kaumātua...
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Tackling homelessness through marae-led care
This Unitec Advance magazine article looks at Te Puea Memorial Marae’s kaupapa Māori-led work with vulnerable whānau, to show how marae can be an integral part of urban housing solutions. Māori are disproportionately affected by the housing crisis; for example, 53% of rough sleepers in Auckland are Māori. This research seeks to provide information that will strengthen marae...
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1. Autonomous vehicles and future urban environments: Exploring implications for. . .
This think piece presents four scenarios of autonomous vehicle adoption and then present some of the potential impacts on travel behaviour, urban form, and wellbeing, with a particular focus on ageing populations. The scenarios range between an axis from high and low automation and an axis from hyper and collaborative consumption. Although there is a wealth of accumulated knowledge. . .
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3. Autonomous vehicles and future urban environments: Exploring changing travel. . .
It has been widely claimed that autonomous vehicles will support the mobility of older adults. However, complex interactions between demographics, transport systems, the built environment, and health and wellbeing mean that outcomes are far from certain. Policy makers need to decide what outcomes they want from mobility futures and to identify how best to achieve those outcomes with the resources...
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4. Initial scan of policy/issues relevant to autonomous vehicle development and deployment
This document supports forward-planning, additional research initiatives, and public consultation by transport officials and other relevant stakeholders by summarizing a pilot policy scan of national autonomous vehicle regulation and initiatives. It explores concerns influencing contemporary government policies. Three are shared internationally: safety and ethics, liability and insurance, and policy for ageing...
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Kāinga tahi, kāinga rua: A kaupapa Māori Response of Te Puea Memorial Marae
While urban marae have always been able to provide manaakitanga in times of crisis they have also progressively expanded their day to day roles from the 1980s to include health centres, kaupapa Māori education and te reo Māori revitalisation initiatives. However, these marae are now responding to the systemic Māori and wider community homelessness which is the result of the housing crisis...
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Resilience, ageing, and adapting to change
This report from the 2017 Passive and Low Energy Architecture (PLEA) Conference looks at architecture and urban design as pivotal factors in successfully engaging with and solving the issues of population aging and environmental sustainability. Three big challenges were identified: the stigmatisation of aging; that fully supporting diversity requires involving more disciplines in urban design...
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