This research project explores community housing provider decision-making around the design and provision of ‘more-than-dwelling’ aspects of public housing developments, such as communal amenities, public spaces, and placemaking activities developed to support tenant wellbeing. It also explores the rationale that informs public housing providers’ decision making around the provision of community resources and their support for placemaking activities. We are interested in how and why the type and level of provision was negotiated by housing providers, who was included in determining and supporting the provision of the community infrastructure (tenants, iwi, and external organisations and agencies) and how it is used by tenants. We are also asking if and how reinforcing Māori knowledge, values, and tikanga influenced decision making in the design and provision of community infrastructure and placemaking activities. What is each provider’s ‘theory of change’ for how the provision of community resources and activities will maintain or improve the wellbeing of their tenants and community, and enhance Māori wellbeing, and what wellbeing outcomes have they prioritised in their decision-making?

Project Leads: Karen Witten & Crystal Olin

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