Public Housing & Urban Regeneration Programme

Housing Design Quality
Housing quality

Overarching Aim

To analyse relationships between public housing quality and tenant and community wellbeing.

Top 3 objectives

  1. To understand how design and governance of public housing affects housing quality
  2. To assess public housing design, and internal environment
  3. To understand how differences in housing quality affect the wellbeing of occupants.

Strand Team

Related content

  1. Chen, Z.
    O’Sullivan, K.
    Pierse, N.
    Ericson, N. Stephenson, K.
    Exploring health and wellbeing impacts of summer indoor overheating on public housing tenants: A mixed-methods study in Wellington, New Zealand.
    Energy and Buildings,
    347, (Part B), 116296
  2. Haussmann, A.
    Olin, C.
    Designing Beyond Walls: An Exploration of How Architecture Can Contribute to Semi-Independent Living for Autistic Adults.
    Architecture,
    5(3), 48
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  3. Haussmann, A.
    BEYOND WALLS: Enabling Semi-Independent Living for Individuals on the Spectrum.
    Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington. Master's Thesis.
  4. Chen, Z.
    O’Sullivan, K.
    Dohig, R.
    Pierse, N.
    Jiang, T. Riva, M. Das, R.
    Identifying summer energy poverty and public health risks in a temperate climate
    Climate Risk Management
    48 (2025) 100698
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  5. Chen, Z.
    O’Sullivan, K.
    Pierse, N.
    Ericson, N Stepehenson, K
    Case study of summer overheating in Wellington public housing
    Under Review
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  6. Dohig, R.
    O’Sullivan, K.
    Telfar-Barnard, L.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    ‘I think life changed for everybody from the first lockdown’: Public housing tenants’ experiences of COVID-19 public health and social measures in Aotearoa New Zealand.
    Int Journal of Housing Policy.
  7. "It’s been a long road” The Health and Wellbeing Impacts of the COVID-19 Public Health and Social Measures on Public Housing Tenants in Aotearoa.
    University of Otago.

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