Covid-19 and media constructions of housing and home in Aotearoa New Zealand
Nandedkar, Gauri
Abstract – Tuhinga Whakarāpopoto
Aotearoa New Zealand responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by adopting an elimination rather than a suppression strategy, which involved using traditional public health techniques of rapid tracking and tracing, isolation and quarantine. The home became the central mechanism of defence in national public health measures to manage the pandemic. The use of the home as a key tool in the COVID-19 management strategy has occurred within the context of a housing affordability crisis for those on low incomes and associated problems of housing precarity. This immediately highlighted Aotearoa’s persistent problems with unaffordable and insecure housing, as well as homelessness. The interplay between the housing crisis and COVID-19, and the way in which it was dealt with in the media discourse surfaces and reproduces the meaning of housing and home in Aotearoa NZ.
Articles associated with this research – Karere Tūhono
News: COVID-19 and media constructions of housing and home in Aotearoa New Zealand
24 November 2021: Mainstream media persistently reduces housing to a property investment and housing stock as a commodity for trade according to new research by Building Better’s Dr Gauri Nandedkar, a researcher in the Affordable Housing for Generations team. >> Read More.
Keywords – Kupu Hāngai
Housing, COVID-19, wellbeing, mental health, community wellbeing, urban wellbeing, homelessness, media
Fields of Research – Āpure Rangahau
Pandemic Response; Affordable Housing; Community Planning; Media; Impact of Media
Date – Te Wā Whakarewa
2021-11
Type – Te Auaha
Report
Citation – Kupu Hautoa
Nandedkar, G. (2021). Covid-19 and media constructions of housing and home in Aotearoa New Zealand. Report for Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities, Affordable Housing for Generations. November 2021, 23pgs. Wellington: BBHTC.
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