Housing Accords: Over-promising, Under-delivering in a time of housing crisis.
Housing Accords and Special Housing Areas were introduced in 2013 as a ‘laxative’ to local planning. They were to accelerate residential new builds. This study shows the Housing Accord in Rolleston over-promised and under-delivered. There is little evidence of accelerated builds. Price suppression was minor and limited. Numbers were small and less than promised. Assumptions underpinning Housing Accords of a chain between house prices, build costs, and public planning regimes are not sustained in Rolleston’s Special Housing Areas. Accelerated building as well as affordable housing requires purposeful action rather than generalised land release.
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Kaupapa Māori researchers forge a brighter future for mokopuna
Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities National Science Challenge - He Kainga Whakamana Tangata, Whakamana Taiao recognizes the importance of community knowledge in the development of effective housing solutions. With over 75% of their research partners being Māori and members of communities impacted by current housing challenges, BBHTC has been able to access a unique depth of knowledge and understanding that traditional Westernised research has never been able to acquire. This insight has inspired the creation of innovative, sustainable housing solutions that prioritise the well-being of both people and the environment. At a recent National Māori Housing Conference, BBHTC Tangata Whenua co-chair, Rihi Te Nana, highlighted the amazing impact of community-led kaupapa Māori research. Representatives at the conference were encouraged to explore bold and innovative ways to share their research with the wider community.
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Maia Ratana - Home on wheels part of housing solutions for young Māori
Maia Ratana speaks to Julian Wilcox of Mapuna RNZ about her experience on building a tiny home on wheels as a way to provide a kainga for her whanau. She also talks about the realities that face rangatahi māori when it comes to the current housing market and how this can be a viable option for people looking for home security.
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He Whare Mō Wai?
He Whare Mō Wai? is a by rangatahi, for rangatahi podcast and video series hosted by Jacqueline Paul, Maia Ratana, Hanna-Marie Monga and Pania Newton. He Whare Mō Wai? creates a space for rangatahi to share stories, advice, and aspirations for kāinga across Aotearoa and to inspire others who wish to pursue their housing dreams. In this series, we kōrero with rangatahi and experts about navigating home ownership, renting, finance, mortgages, homelessness, and more.
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What housing characteristics support seniors? Seniors’ experiences of housing and home in New Zealand during the COVID-19 pandemic
This paper aims to explore what can be learned from the COVID-19 pandemic about adaptable, functional housing design that supports seniors’ resilience. This paper considers how physical and design features enable seniors to stay safe, develop coping strategies, give and receive care and maintain social connections.
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Government residential maintenance incentives and information programmes
This report investigates programmes or requirements in other countries on the maintenance of residential dwellings to ascertain if these incentives and programmes are useful in a New Zealand context. It uses a web-based literature review undertaken from November 2020 to October 2021. Although designers, builders, purchasers, product suppliers, and politicians frequently focus on construction costs...
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Kāinga Tahi, Kāinga Rua: Māori housing realities and aspirations - chapter summaries
The Kāinga Tahi, Kāinga Rua Kaupapa Māori Research Project draws on expertise from across the Māori housing sector. The project responds to the right and aspiration of Māori researchers, in collaboration with Māori organisations and communities, to develop Māori housing solutions. The outputs of the Kaupapa Māori Research Project include a book Kāinga Tahi, Kāinga Rua: Māori Housing Realities...
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Reflections on kaumātua, pakeke and seniors’ housing
Launched on 2 November 2022 at the Moa Crescent Kaumātua village in Kirikiriroa (Hamilton) this booklet is an information resource to promote better housing for our ageing population. It presents BBHTC/Ageing Well research exploring why changes are needed to our housing system, looks at some imaginative opportunities and shares the housing experiences and aspirations of kaumātua and seniors...
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A critical review of Rangatahi Māori and housing policy
This working paper is a critical review of rangatahi Māori and housing policy in Tāmaki Makaurau, forming part of the research project ‘He tātai whetu ki te rangi, he rangatahi ki te kāinga: Rangatahi pathways to safe, secure and affordable homes’. The review was prepared by and for BBHTC's rangatahi team to identify the gaps and opportunities in the current housing system...
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Trade-offs in community housing providers’ procurement decision-making
This report presents a case study of the trade-offs that one community housing provider (CHP) made in procuring new-built stock, with a focus on how consideration of residents’ needs and perspectives is factored into their decision-making. The practices of consulting with, understanding, and reflecting residents’ perspectives have become central to the management practices of many not-for-profit...
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Youth homelessness in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa New Zealand
This scoping report draws attention to youth homelessness in Tāmaki Makaurau. Homelessness is on the rise in Aotearoa New Zealand, with half of those experiencing homelessness under the age of 25. Youth homelessness is documented internationally, but the local context lacks data and literature. The research finds that Māori young people are experiencing some of the worst housing deprivation...
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Social Impact Assessment: Guidelines for thriving regions and communities
In this paper, Building Better researchers Dr Nick Taylor, from Nick Taylor and Associates, and Dr Mike Mackay, from AgResearch, have developed a comprehensive practical guideline to Social Impact Assessment (SIA) to help councils and community groups learn the basics about how to conduct an SIA, contribute to an SIA, use the results of an SIA, and judge if an SIA is fit for purpose. . .
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Quality of life, quality of business, and destinations of recent graduates
One of the main challenges facing non-metropolitan regions is convincing highly educated young people to move into their area and then keeping them. This research tests whether students from different types of institution and from different fields of study decide to live in places that are regarded as fun or in places that are good to do business. Graduates from all fields of study other than agriculture...
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Kaupapakāinga: The potential for Māori cohousing
Approaches to kaupapa Māori development such as papakāinga housing bear similarities with collective housing models such as cohousing. Cohousing, a Danish model of collective housing, combines private dwellings with shared spaces and facilities. Papakāinga and cohousing communities often share aspirations for social, environmental, and economic sustainability...
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Pathways to renting among older former homeowners
This paper explores the experiences of older renters who were former homeowners. These renters’ trajectories reflect society’s shift to complex and risky housing pathways. The typical causes of loss of homeownership for those who had previously been homeowner included: divorce/separation, aging, and planned choice. Participants’ decision-making was also affected by their ties to birthplace, family base. . .
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The condition of owned and rented housing in Aotearoa New Zealand
Using a national housing assessment survey and information on housing tenure, this paper explores the distribution of a range of indicators of housing condition, comparing between owned and rented stock. On average across Aotearoa New Zealand, rental dwellings are more likely to be in a poorer state of repair and experience higher rates of visible mould than owner-occupied dwellings.
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Transforming geographies: Performing Indigenous-Māori ontologies...(wellbeing compass)
This paper explores how spatial governance models oriented to the well-being of the more-than-human might better enable Indigenous peoples' capacity to live-well-with and care for our more-than-human whanaunga (kin). The paper considers how a culture of holistic ecological well-being might be spatially emplaced through well-being-led planning tools that ground these ontologies in neighbourhoods, cities. . .
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An exploration of the Māori housing-health nexus during the mid-Twentieth Century
Māori died at seven times the national rate during the 1918–1919 influenza pandemic. Government officials noted what they described as the shocking housing conditions experienced by Māori. Despite the connections between Māori health and housing being apparent, the interwar years saw little government response. From the late 1950s and through the 1960s, Māori were able to access...
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Ageing in place as an older tenant: Independence and uncertainty
More people in mid-life and older are renting in New Zealand. This is a significant change. We asked 108 older tenants about their experiences of ‘ageing in place’ in rentals in five areas: Waiheke Island, Marlborough District, Western Bay of Plenty District, Tauranga City and the Hawke's Bay – areas with an older population profile, increasing proportions of older tenants, and unaffordable rents.
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Hei whakatū ngā kāinga mō te iwi Māori: Producing, retaining and maintaining affordable...
Māori Housing Providers are relatively new to social and affordable housing supply and management. As capacity and capability is now strengthening, there is a strong will for Māori agencies to respond to Māori needs. The new providers are keen to assist, recognising that to Māori a home is more than a house. Māori seek spiritual, emotional and cultural identity connections to the land...
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Sharing or owning autonomous vehicles? Comprehending the role of ideology
Emerging mobility technologies, including connected shared platforms and automation, are disrupting urban transportation. There is an expectation that Shared Autonomous Vehicles (SAVs) will eventually replace ubiquitous private car ownership by offering efficient, flexible, and affordable on-demand mobility. However, the meaning of the car and its functions are not limited to facilitating mobility.
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Accommodation Supplement: High expenditure, low efficacy
In the 2020 budget, almost $2.4 billion was allocated to the provision of the Accommodation Supplement. There have been substantial increases in Government expenditure on accommodation supplements over the last twenty-five years. Even so, many households in Aotearoa New Zealand face significant affordability problems. It is estimated that 361,000 households in 2019 were in housing affordability stress...
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Delineating functional labour market areas with estimable classification stabilities
This paper describes a method for delineating functional labour market areas (LMAs) in national commuting networks. Identifying functional, rather than administrative, LMAs is important for analysing spatial patterns of economic activity. Functional boundaries capture the geography of interactions among employers and employees, whereas administrative boundaries typically ignore such interactions...
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"Hometown & whānau, or big city & millennials?"
One of the main challenges facing non-metropolitan regions is the attraction and retention of highly-educated young people. A loss of the brightest can lead to reduced business creation, innovation, growth and community wellbeing in such regions. The researchers use rich longitudinal microdata from New Zealand’s integrated administrative data infrastructure to analyse the determinants and geography of the choice...
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Betting on house prices: Housing speculation in Auckland
Until now the Income Tax Act’s intention test has not been used to curb housing speculation in Aotearoa. This Act could allow government to effectively control housing speculation. This paper uses a simplified equation to determine the initial (first-year) cash-on-cash return or net rental yield of a property in Auckland between 2002 and 2016. Each property purchased and rented was assessed as speculative or not...
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Engaging communities in the design of homes and neighbourhoods in Aotearoa
This Counterfutures journal article by Dr Rebecca Kiddle says a successful engagement process empowers communities by acknowledging their mātauranga (place-based knowledge), and by taking the time to build strong relationships that can form the base of all future engagement. Specifically, there is a range of things agencies and those doing the engaging could do. These include: engaging with communities early...
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Essential workers’ bubbles: Crowding, housing affordability and tenure
Looking at housing for essential workers is important to protect our communities in the future because pandemics are likely to be more prevalent. During the COVID-19 lockdown in Aotearoa New Zealand, research was done on the housing of essential workers. This bulletin highlights that a substantial number of these workers are dealing with affordability stress and some are experiencing...
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A house that is a home for whānau Māori
In conversational interviews, 27 Māori were asked what makes a house a home for whānau Māori and how housing supports whānau ora. The analysis is guided by the way the social and material environment is the source of self-identity. For Māori, this material environment extends beyond the four walls of a home and into the whenua, in acknowledgement of the importance of place for a sense of belonging. . .
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Betting on capital gains: Housing speculation in Auckland
This paper examines housing speculation in Auckland, New Zealand, the second most unaffordable market in the world. The study considers rental property purchases from 2002 to 2016 within the Auckland region. The authors apply a simple cash flow model that emulates the before-tax investment calculations used during purchasers’ due diligence. From this model, the authors determine whether...
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Too many costly homes
Aotearoa New Zealand is building more homes now than it has in the last 45 years. This is critical to make up the housing supply deficit of recent years. While more new houses are going up, they’re not necessarily ones that middle and low-income New Zealanders can afford, leaving the housing affordability crisis unresolved. It is well established that New Zealand’s building industry...
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Ecology of community: Socially-based tenure in urban papakāinga and cohousing
This PhD thesis explores social (or communal) tenure - systems of rights. Social tenures are a feature of many Indigenous cultures, where land and resources are managed from a collectivist, rather than an individualist, standpoint. Māori society was traditionally based around territorial tribal living, with hapū (sub-tribes) controlling and defending particular territories. . .
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Commuting to diversity
Auckland is New Zealand’s most diverse city, but the impacts of diversity are likely to be less if interactions between different groups are limited by where they live and work. This study examines exposure to local cultural diversity based on where people work as well as where they live. The study also examines whether the relationship between commuting and exposure to diversity differs between. . .
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Revitalising the production of affordable housing for productive, engaged & healthy...
A dwelling that is priced higher than its residents can afford is no longer a place of comfort and security but an arena of material struggle. It is associated with under-investment in many of the goods and services that generate wellbeing. It contracts rather than expands life chances, and makes social, cultural, and economic participation precarious. This publication brings together...
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Modelling inter-urban migration in an open population setting: The case of New Zealand
In this book chapter, BBHTC researchers examine the modelling of gross inter-urban migration flows in Aotearoa New Zealand. They identify a range of geographic, demographic, economic, and climatic characteristics of urban areas, which are statistically significant determinants of migration. The researchers argue that in a small but open population such as New Zealand...
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Urban Regeneration and Social Cohesion
This report investigates the effectiveness of the Tāmaki Regeneration Company (TRC) project. Glen Innes was built in the 1950s, close to central Auckland, and was a primarily low socio-economic suburb, with a significant Māori population, living in State (social) housing. The TRC project saw Housing New Zealand Corporation and Auckland Council working together to replace 2,700 properties...
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Commuting to diversity (2)
In this extended report for BBHTC (which later became a peer-reviewed journal article of the same name in the New Zealand Population Review), researchers ask does commuting increase workers' exposure to difference and diversity? The uneven spatial distribution of different population subgroups within cities is well documented. Individual neighbourhoods are less diverse than cities...
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Valuing cultural diversity of cities
This paper estimates the impact local cultural diversity has on city wage and rent premiums, and whether diversity is a source of local production and/or consumption of amenities. The researchers find that the presence of people from different cultural backgrounds enhances the profitability of urban firms. In contrast, a city’s population has a weak preference for living near others who are culturally like...
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Assessing environmental sustainability outcomes at neighbourhood scale
This research focusses on assessing the environmental sustainability of neighbourhoods. It further develops and tests a framework for post occupancy evaluation of the planning and delivery of a neighbourhood’s environmental sustainability. The matrix developed to examine Hobsonville Point is the underpinning methodology. It categorises environmental performance measures...
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Designing walkable future neighbourhoods: Considering diversity
Research about walkable neighbourhoods is commonly based on the notion of an adult able-bodied walker. However, people have different physical, social, cultural, emotional, and financial abilities and resources to navigate the neighbourhood landscape. This diversity should be recognised at design and planning stages, along with the recognition that the resident population of a neighbourhood is not static...
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Tūranga ki te marae, e tau ana - Reimagining marae-based kāinga in Tāmaki Makaurau
Houses (and people) were never built to stand in isolation. Rather, whare were to be located in relation to the pā for communal living. Marae are integral to Māori whānau and communities and, throughout the ages, marae have continued to adapt to new contexts. Many marae are actively seeking marae-based kāinga solutions for whānau, hapū, iwi, and communities, and many marae have shown. . .
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Te Ao Māori and Water Sensitive Urban Design
This report complements ‘Activating Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) for healthy, resilient communities’ research that aims to enhance capability and to address current barriers to the uptake of WSUD. It explores how WSUD in Aotearoa New Zealand values, recognises, and provides for Te Ao Māori and how it could do better. It shares experiences and knowledge of the authors to help integrate Māori. . .
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Building for shared rental homes by non-profit community housing providers: Building...
This report is part of a study focused on building solutions that address barriers to making our building stock perform better for the needs of older people. It responds to the limited opportunities for older people to find affordable rentals. The report examines whether profits from shared rentals could be increased while providing homes that adapt to future changes in use. This report contains potential designs...
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An expanded wellbeing framework and urban science data tool for integrated wellbeing
This paper asks how an indigenous-Māori cultural perspective might expand wellbeing discourse with positive effect for wellbeing-led governance. It attends to mauri ora as an indigenous wellbeing construct. For Māori, ora is life, health, and wellbeing, while mauri is that interpenetrating life force which is “immanent in all things, knitting and bonding them together” as a life-field. . .
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Understanding Costs and Maintenance of WSUD in New Zealand
Water sensitive urban design (WSUD) is often perceived as an expensive option for stormwater management in both the long and short term. This research looks at the implications of the National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management on the costs of WSUD and explores drivers and misconceptions around cost and maintenance. It also investigates the cost burden across the full life cycle. . .
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Study trip to Melbourne, November 2018 - Findings: Activating WSUD for healthy...
Australia has substantial experience in Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD), Melbourne is home to Australia’s Co-operative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities (CRCWSC) as well as agencies that have world-leading experience in the implementation of WSUD. A team of three researchers visited Melbourne in November 2018. As well as meeting researchers and practitioners from. . .
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Recommendations for future research: Activating WSUD for healthy resilient communities
Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) is an alternative to conventional forms of urban development, integrating urban planning and water management to better manage, for example, water supply security, water quality in natural waterbodies, flood risk, and amenity values of waterbodies. The ‘Activating WSUD for healthy, resilient communities’ research programme initially focused on a series of. . .
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Ahakoa te aha, mahingia te mahi - In service to homeless whānau in Tāmaki Makaurau
Just before winter 2016, Te Puea Memorial Marae opened their doors to anyone in desperate need of shelter and support. Since then, the work of the Marae has continued and developed with a focus on supporting whānau to secure housing tenancy and to support home-building for achieve whānau ora. The issue of homelessness is neither new to Māori, nor is it an issue that is separated from wider...
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Wellbeing-led, home-based energy infrastructures and low emissions transport
This think piece explores energy strategies and policy in relation to its generation, usage patterns, and outputs, all within a holistic wellbeing-led framework. The piece emphasises a home-focused energy approach that considers housing, local energy generation and storage, and electric vehicles as a circular zero carbon ecosystem. The researchers investigate a low-carbon Tāmaki Makaurau...
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Exploring Papakāinga: A Kaupapa Māori quantitative methodology
This paper offers a strategy for gathering and analysing large-scale data. The aim is to understand how Māori might better fulfil aspirations for the designing, financing, and building of housing, as well as perceptions of housing and papakāinga, and the contribution this has to Māori wellbeing. The researchers say a study of this kind will contribute new knowledge and better understanding of Māori...
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The disruptive mobility and the potential for land reclamation
This working paper investigates the potential for land reclamation based on the deployment of disruptive mobility in Auckland’s CBD and ten other metropolitan areas. It assumes shared electric autonomous vehicles (SEAVs) will be the dominant transport system in the near future, that this would reduce the demands for car parking, and that existing open and covered car parking can be reclaimed for urban needs...
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Living at density in Hobsonville Point, Auckland: Resident perceptions
Over half of residential development in Auckland now involves attached housing types such as terraces and apartments. This working paper presents residents’ perceptions of living at higher density in Hobsonville Point. Despite being 2-3 times the density of a typical suburb, respondents in the survey express a reasonably high level of satisfaction with their dwelling design, and the relationships with their neighbours...
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Assessing the full benefits of WSUD: Activating WSUD for healthy resilient communities
The potential benefits of water sensitive urban design (WSUD) usually include better hydrology and water quality and healthier aquatic ecosystems. However, assessments of the benefits of WSUD that focus solely on these water-related outcomes are incomplete in scope. WSUD has the potential to deliver a wide range of other environmental and social co-benefits. This paper suggests WSUD should be. . .
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An investigation of alternative funding...Activating WSUD for healthy resilient communities
There are significant challenges in securing funds for stormwater managers to address the costs of operating and maintaining desired levels of service, and for planning future growth while meeting community aspirations for the quality of the environment. This report documents Aotearoa New Zealand and Australian case studies and also highlights commonalities and lessons learnt. . .
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The ‘More than Water’ WSUD Assessment Tool
This report describes the More Than Water (MTW) assessment tool, developed for evaluating the benefits and costs of Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) projects. The name of the tool reflects the notion that WSUD can deliver multiple co-benefits and cost-related advantages, in addition to more familiar considerations associated with management of the hydrological and water quality effects. . .
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The disruptive mobility and the future of our neighbourhoods
This paper looks at the characteristics of disruptive mobility. This includes three intertwined technological trends: automation, electrification, and smart shared mobility. The research investigates the potential positive and adverse impacts of disruptive mobility on urban form and the built environment in the future. It recommends planners and urban designers engage more with disruptive mobility...
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Te Aranga Māori Design Principles
Te Aranga Māori Design Principles were developed by Māori design professionals as a response to the New Zealand Urban Design Protocol in 2005. Over time the principles have been developed and adopted by the Auckland Council with the support of Ngā Aho. This article asks landscape architect graduate Jacqueline Paul (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Tūwharetoa), and landscape architect William Hatton...
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Concepts of Neighbourhood: A Review of the Literature
This report looks at why the concept of neighbourhood is important. Key ideas include neighbourhood planning (development, growth, and transit-oriented development), neighbourhood units and boundaries, neighbourhood walkability, neighbourhood (and in some cases residential) satisfaction, and neighbourhood change. Studies that look at both location and sociological factors will...
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Following the money: Understanding the building industry’s exit from affordable...
The NZ Productivity Commission’s 2012 report suggested the building industry has largely stopped building in the lower value segments of the housing market. This research bulletin suggests an explanation is the significant withdrawal of government capital assistance and investment in affordable housing. Although there has been a re-introduction of income related rents for state housing...
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Post-Occupancy Evaluation of neighbourhoods: A review of the literature
This report provides an overview of the application of Post-Occupancy Evaluation at the neighbourhood scale, focusing on environmental performance and liveability. Post-Occupancy Evaluation is a useful way of confirming the actual performance of the built environment. The researchers present the main international and national methodologies and examples. Existing assessment and certification...
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Tackling homelessness through marae-led care
This Unitec Advance magazine article looks at Te Puea Memorial Marae’s kaupapa Māori-led work with vulnerable whānau, to show how marae can be an integral part of urban housing solutions. Māori are disproportionately affected by the housing crisis; for example, 53% of rough sleepers in Auckland are Māori. This research seeks to provide information that will strengthen marae...
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Revitalising the production of lower value homes: Researching dynamics and outcomes
Aggregate under-supply of new dwellings has been cited as a major contributor to New Zealand’s high house prices, falling owner occupation, and increasing numbers of households burdened with unaffordable housing. Central and local government have sought to encourage new-builds and the release of land for residential purposes. But this is not having a substantial impact on the supply of affordable...
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Unlocking transport innovation: A sociotechnical perspective of the logics of transport...
This paper investigates the architecture of decision-making that influences delivery and outcomes of urban environments. It uses the case study of a new style of pedestrian crossing proposed for Massey Road in Mangere, Auckland. Local traffic concerns impeding walking and cycling were identified through a community engagement process. A neighbourhood-scale intervention was designed...
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1. Autonomous vehicles and future urban environments: Exploring implications for. . .
This think piece presents four scenarios of autonomous vehicle adoption and then present some of the potential impacts on travel behaviour, urban form, and wellbeing, with a particular focus on ageing populations. The scenarios range between an axis from high and low automation and an axis from hyper and collaborative consumption. Although there is a wealth of accumulated knowledge. . .
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Novel wastewater processing: Impact on our cities, infrastructure and society
Push a button or pull a chain, our toilet waste disappearing out of sight is the last time most of us ever think about what goes down our drains. But an intricate infrastructure system takes care of our wastewater. Civil engineers, town planners and wastewater treatment experts are busy maintaining pipes and plant, coping with increasing demand, and disposing of the end products. . .
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Medium-density dwellings in Auckland and the building regulations
National thermal standards have historically been set to minimise winter heating energy in detached houses. It is uncertain whether these standards are optimal for the increasing number of joined, medium-density dwellings when summer and winter conditions are considered. Using freely available software, annual heating energy use and summertime peak...
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Activating water sensitive urban design for healthy resilient communities - Discovery phase
This report describes the findings of Phase 1 of the ‘Activating Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) for healthy, resilient communities project’ and makes recommendations for research activities in Phase 2. The researchers find there is a need to review management of the urban water cycle in New Zealand. Specifically, the capacity of current approaches to meet the reasonably foreseeable future. . .
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2. Four plausible scenarios for transport in New Zealand in 2048
This research focuses on four scenarios designed to trigger debate about plausible future transport systems. The research used workshops, discussion, and stakeholder consultation to develop four scenarios between two uncertainty axes (automation and consumption). The four scenarios are: Custom Cocoons, Mode Nomads, Amped Autos, and Active Scouts. Fundamentally, it asks. . .
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3. Autonomous vehicles and future urban environments: Exploring changing travel. . .
It has been widely claimed that autonomous vehicles will support the mobility of older adults. However, complex interactions between demographics, transport systems, the built environment, and health and wellbeing mean that outcomes are far from certain. Policy makers need to decide what outcomes they want from mobility futures and to identify how best to achieve those outcomes with the resources...
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4. Initial scan of policy/issues relevant to autonomous vehicle development and deployment
This document supports forward-planning, additional research initiatives, and public consultation by transport officials and other relevant stakeholders by summarizing a pilot policy scan of national autonomous vehicle regulation and initiatives. It explores concerns influencing contemporary government policies. Three are shared internationally: safety and ethics, liability and insurance, and policy for ageing...
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Investing in affordable homes
Aggregate undersupply of new dwellings has been cited as contributing to New Zealand's high house prices, falling owner occupation and increasing numbers of households burdened with unaffordable housing. While central and local government are encouraging new builds and the release of land for residential purposes, high numbers of residential new builds are not affordable housing...
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Rangahau Māori (Māori Research): An Indigenous Perspective
This paper explores the strategies being developed by Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities: He Kāinga Whakamana Tangata, Whakamana Taiao (BBHTC). BBHTC is taking an innovative approach to Māori research and development, operating across academic, cultural, and social sectors. The paper presents a model for conducting research with and for Māori, that is empowering and mutually...
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Urban Wā Kāinga: Integrating and embedding Te Aranga and Kaupapa Māori into communities
‘Urban’ is defined in relation to the characteristics of a town or city. ‘Wa Kainga’ in Māori is also known as a home. In a wider context papakainga is also used generally in the sense of traditionally Māori village-type living which has been integrated into more modern-day living. This research project aims to explore the potential of papakainga or wa kainga and understand how it can contribute...
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Kāinga tahi, kāinga rua: A kaupapa Māori Response of Te Puea Memorial Marae
While urban marae have always been able to provide manaakitanga in times of crisis they have also progressively expanded their day to day roles from the 1980s to include health centres, kaupapa Māori education and te reo Māori revitalisation initiatives. However, these marae are now responding to the systemic Māori and wider community homelessness which is the result of the housing crisis...
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Resilience, ageing, and adapting to change
This report from the 2017 Passive and Low Energy Architecture (PLEA) Conference looks at architecture and urban design as pivotal factors in successfully engaging with and solving the issues of population aging and environmental sustainability. Three big challenges were identified: the stigmatisation of aging; that fully supporting diversity requires involving more disciplines in urban design...
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Thinking about the logics of affordable new build delivery
New Zealand faces three conundrums in relation to its housing stock and the new builds which replenish it. The first is persistent under-supply of housing both in the aggregate and, more particularly, housing affordable to people and households on lower and middle incomes. The second, is misalignment between the new built stock typology and functionality in relation to the needs of...
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Exploring Te Aranga design principles in Tāmaki
Te Aranga Design Principles are a cultural landscape strategy/approach to design thinking and making which incorporates a series of Māori cultural values and principles. This study strives towards a better understanding of the principles, and how they apply in developing policy and design for residential development in the Tāmaki Area. This study also suggests how the principles can be embedded...
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Can higher density enhance liveability?
A magazine article examining higher-density housing in Auckland. Higher-density housing requires quality urban development to deliver liveable, walkable communities. A National Science Challenge-funded survey in Auckland showed this is what people want from where they live. Associating enhanced liveability with higher density at first glance seems illogical. In the early part...
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Does higher density housing enhance liveability? Case studies of housing in Auckland
This paper examines how liveability is enhanced in intensified suburban contexts. Three case study areas in Auckland were used: Albany, New Lynn, and Onehunga. Key reasons for moving into higher-density housing were opportunities to form social networks, affordability, and proximity to schools, shopping, public transport, and employment. The research also examined walkability and car...
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