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Housing Tenure and Subjective Wellbeing: The Importance of Public Housing

News

Researchers from the Wellbeing strand of the Public Housing and Urban Regeneration research programme have published an article finding that tenants in public housing have higher wellbeing than ten

Housing plus support bring ongoing benefits for people who have been homeless

Media release
A recently published study shows housing people who've experienced homelessness and simultaneously providing them with specialist support services dramatically improves their wellbeing.

The Government’s transport plans work against our health

Briefing
In this briefing researchers highlight the risks to health of the proposals in the Draft Government Policy Statement on Land Transport 2024- 34

A Whakawhanaungatanga Māori Wellbeing Model – guiding better housing and urban development

Briefing

A Whakawhanaungatanga Māori Wellbeing Model has been developed by researchers from the Māori Strand of the Public Housing and Urban Regeneration Research programme.

Publication or Resource

Grimes, A.
Smith, C.
O’Sullivan, K.
Howden-Chapman, P.
Le Gros, L.
Dohig, R.
Housing Tenure and Subjective Wellbeing: The Importance of Public Housing.
Applied Research in Quality of Life,
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Grimes_et_al-2024-PHUR-Applied_Research_in_Quality_of_Life.pdf
Macmillan, A.
Davies, M. Shrubsole, C. Luxford, N. May, N. Chiu, L.F. Trutnevyte, E. Bobrova, Y. Zaid, C.
Integrated decision-making about housing, energy and wellbeing: a qualitative system dynamics model.
Environmental Health,
15(1), 23-34.
Ombler, J.
Jiang, T.
Fraser, B.
Nelson, J. McMinn, C. Hawkes, K. Atatoa Carr, P. Pehi, T.
Aspinall, C
Bierre, S.
Schick, K.
Howden-Chapman, P.
Pierse, N.
Five-Year Post-Housing Outcomes for a Housing First Cohort in Aotearoa, New Zealand.
International Journal on Homelessness, 2024, 4(1): page 1-17
4(1), 1-17.
Shaw, C. Wild, K. Smith, M. HInckson, E. Jones, R. Miller, E. Osborne, E.
Randal, E.
Curl, A. Mizdrak, A. Fitt, H. Hales, S.
Keall, M.
McLean. R. Opit, S. Mandic, S. Hosking, J. Woodward, A. Bozovic, T. Coppell, K. Macmillan, A.
Submission on Draft Government Policy Statement on Land Transport 2024- 34

Event

Speaking truth to power: The impact of research evidence in improving population health

Public Lecture
 

Professor Philippa Howden-Chapman recently delivered the Distinguished Research Medal lecture at the University of Otago Wellington. 

Opening of Pukehinau Kai Hub, Te Ngaehe o Rau Hīnau

The new Pukehinau Kai Hub at Te Toi Mahana's Pukehinau housing complex is being studied by researchers interested in any impacts of the project on tenant and community wellbeing.
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