News

Budget 2023 goes a long way to improving housing and wellbeing

Media release
Professor Philippa Howden-Chapman comments on key announcements in the recent 2023 Budget which have implications for housing and public health. These include new public housing, extending the Warmer Kiwi Homes’ Programme, and investment in infrastructure. The Professor outlines where and how these initiatives will help housing in Aotearoa New Zealand

A greater proportion of public housing in communities supports tenant health

Media release
Recently-published research has found public housing tenants living in areas with a higher proportion of public housing actually had better health outcomes than those living in areas with lower densities of public housing tenants.

New research partnership will help improve council homes

Media release

Wellington City Council has put out a Media Release on their research collaboration with the NZ Centre for Sustainable Cities on the Public Housing & Urban Regeneration Programme funded by MBIE

Spotlight on housing: new report looks at growing inequity in housing in Aotearoa and possible solutions

Media release
A report published today puts a spotlight on housing through a fairness lens and finds that differences in housing are a large contributor to inequity in New Zealand.

National Portrait: Philippa Howden-Chapman – the woman whose home truths have made our houses healthier

Interview
Professor Philippa Howden-Chapman was interviewed by Stuff reporter Ethan Te Ora about her long research career working to improve the quality of Kiwi homes

Housing researchers win the Rutherford Medal, NZ’s top research honour

Media release
Professor Philippa Howden-Chapman and team are awarded the 2021 Rutherford Medal.

Publication or Resource

Housing and urban regeneration in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Public Health Communication Centre,
Public Health Priority Series 21 February 2023.
He Kāinga Oranga: reflections on 25 years of measuring the improved health, wellbeing and sustainability of healthier housing.
Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand,
Online.
Toy-Cronin, B.
Sustaining Tenancies or Swift Evictions: Rent Arrears in the Tenancy Tribunal
Victoria University of Wellington Law Review
53(1), 105–128.
Cadman, C. Carrington, L.
Chapter Nine: More than a landlord: Realising the potential of the community housing sector.
In S Bierre., P Howden-Chapman, L Early. (Eds.), Homes People Can Afford: How to Improve Housing in New Zealand.
Wellington. Steele Roberts Aotearoa.
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