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Chen, Z.

O’Sullivan, K.

Pierse, N.
Ericson, N. Stephenson, K.
(2025). 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
Fasoro, A.

Fraser, B.

Howden-Chapman, P.

Pierse, N.

(2025). Disparities in Need: Comparing Public Housing Tenants and Accommodation Supplement Recipients in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Housing and Society,

1-21
Olin, C
Witten, K.

Randal, E.

Chisholm, E.

Logan, A.

Howden-Chapman, P.

Leigh, L.

(2025). Placemaking and the Complexities of Measuring Impact in Aotearoa New Zealand’s Public and Community Housing: From Theory to Practice and Lived Experience.

Architecture 2025,

5(3), 69.

Research Summary: Placemaking & the Complexities of Measuring Impact in Aotearoa NZ Public & Community Housing, pdf

Research Summary - Placemaking Complexities of Measuring Impact.pdf

https://doi.org/10.3390/architecture5030069
Bierre, S.

Grant, L.

Howden-Chapman, P.

(2025). The potential and limits of an ethic of care in the community housing sector of Aotearoa/NZ.

International Journal of Housing Policy (forthcoming).
Haussmann, A.

Olin, C.

(2025). Designing Beyond Walls: An Exploration of How Architecture Can Contribute to Semi-Independent Living for Autistic Adults.

Architecture,

5(3), 48
Grove, M.

(2025). Wellbeing through housing: Planning reflections on the influence of COVID-19 on Public Renter subjective wellbeing outcomes relative to other forms of tenure in Aotearoa (Master's thesis).

Victoria University of Wellington.
Randal, E.

Logan, A.

Penny, G.

Teariki, M.

Chapman, R.

Keall, M.

Howden-Chapman, P.

(2025). Transport and Wellbeing of Public Housing Tenants—A Scoping Review

Urban Science

9(6):206.

Transport and Wellbeing of Public Housing Tenants—A Scoping Review

Randal 2025 Transport and Wellbeing of Public Housing Tenants—A.pdf

https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci9060206
Bierema, S.

Le Gros, L.

(2025). Public Housing in Aotearoa and Austria: A Utopian Comparison.

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

0(0)

Bierema, S. and Le Gros, L. (2025). ‘Public Housing in Aotearoa and Austria: A…
Howden-Chapman, P.

(2025). Public housing and urban regeneration research programme: Maximising wellbeing. Key interim findings and recommendations.

The New Zealand Centre for Sustainable Cities.

PHUR key interim findings and recommendations

Booklet PHUR Key interim findings & recommendations.pdf
Witten, K.
Olin, C
Logan, A.

Chisholm, E.

Randal, E.

Howden-Chapman, P.

Leigh, L.

(2025). Placemaking for tenant wellbeing: Exploring the decision-making of public and community housing providers in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Wellbeing, Space and Society,

8, 100258.

Research Summary. Placemaking for tenant wellbeing, pdf

Research summary Witten 2025 Placemaking for Wellbeing in Public & Community Housing.pdf

Placemaking for tenant wellbeing. Full article.

Grant, L.

Viggers, H.

Howden-Chapman, P.

(Eds.), (2021). Improving Buildings, Cutting Carbon.

Wellington, New Zealand: Steele Roberts, Aotearoa
Riggs, L.
Noy, S. Devlin, M.
Howden-Chapman, P.

(2021). Housing, Health and the Well-being of Children.

Ministry of Social Development. Wellington, New Zealand
Riggs, L.

Keall, M.

Howden-Chapman, P.

(2021). Environmental burden of disease from unsafe and substandard housing, New Zealand, 2010-2017.

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

99, 259-270.
Pierse, N.
White, M.
Riggs, L.

(2019) Healthy homes initiative: Initial analysis of health outcomes.

Motu Note #37, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, Wellington, New Zealand
Ingham, T.
Keall, M.
Jones, B. Aldridge, D. Latimer, M. Dowell, A.
Davies, C.

Crane, J.
Draper, J. Bailey, L.
Viggers, H.
Stanley, T. Leadbitter, P.
Howden-Chapman, P.

(2019). Damp mouldy housing and early childhood hospital admissions for acute respiratory infection: a case control study.

Thorax

74, 849-857.
Fleming, D.
Grimes, A.
Lebreton, L. Maré, D. Nunns, P.
(2018) Valuing Sunshine

Regional Science and Urban Economics

68, 268-276
Rangiwhetu, L.
Pierse, N.

Viggers, H.

Howden-Chapman, P.

(2018). Cold New Zealand Council Housing Getting an Upgrade.

Policy Quarterly

14, 2, 65-73.
Preval, N.
Keall, M.

Telfar-Barnard, L.

Grimes, A.

Howden-Chapman, P.

(2017). Impact of improved insulation and heating on mortality risk of older cohort members with prior cardiovascular or respiratory hospitalisations.

BMJ Open

7(11).
O’Sullivan, K.

Viggers, H.

Howden-Chapman, P.

(2017). The value of experience: Including young people in energy poverty research.

In N. Simcock, H. Thomson, S. Petrova & S. Bouzarovski (Eds.), Energy poverty and vulnerability: A global perspective.

(pp 188-201). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Fabling, R.
Grimes, A.

(2016). Picking up speed: Does ultrafast broadband increase firm productivity?

Motu Working Paper 16-22

Motu Economic and Public Policy Research

Does adoption of ultrafast broadband result in productivity gains for New Zealand businesses? Are gains any higher when firms make complementary organisational investments?