The Government needs to prioritise getting Māori into their own warm, dry, affordable homes as they continue to be disproportionately impacted by the housing crisis, a public health expert says.

2022年5月30日 · While in the 1930s, Māori dwellings were much more likely to be owner-occupied (at 70.5 percent) than all dwellings, by 2018 the Māori homeownership rate, including family trusts, had fallen to 31 percent, compared to non-Māori at 52 percent.

Traditionally, Māori lived communally and slept in wharepuni – rectangular sleeping houses. Later, Māori slowly adopted European-style houses, but many had difficulty getting good housing. In the early 2000s Māori had a much lower home-ownership rate than the rest of the population.

2016年6月9日 · New statistics reveal Māori home ownership has plummeted in the past 27 years, with the rate in some parts of the North Island dropping by as much as 40 percent. The report from Statistics New Zealand said, since 1986, the average drop in the ownership rate was 20 percent for Māori, compared with 15 percent for the total population.

2021年6月2日 · The government is pouring $380 million specifically into Māori housing over the next three years. It’s a step toward addressing the inequity in home ownership, and the high percentage of Māori in social and emergency housing queues.

Historian Dr Vincent O’Malley says to understand the present – and how the descendants of this land loss may feel – we have to know the past. To understand why some Māori may feel aggrieved today,...

Māori are disproportionately represented on state housing waiting lists. They are more likely to live in housing of poor condition compared with the rest of the population. Māori are also less likely than non-Māori to own their own house.

Traditionally, Māori lived communally and slept in wharepuni – rectangular sleeping houses. Later, Māori slowly adopted European-style houses, but many had difficulty getting good housing. In the early 2000s Māori had a much lower home-ownership rate than the rest of the population.

Although Tasman discovered New Zealand he never landed there, and until Cook landed there a century and a quarter afterwards, the civilized world knew nothing of the inhabitants except that they had murdered some of Tasman's crew. Cook spent nearly a year about the group, but his report gives us little information about the housebuilding.

This report for Waitangi Tribunal's Housing Policy and Services Kaupapa Inquiry (Wai 2750) explores Māori home ownership from 1991 to 2021. It forms a part of a six-report research casebook intended for the second stage of the inquiry, with its counterparts covering historical Māori housing, the private rental market, social housing needs ...