Residents' Assessment of a New Zealand Public-Housing Scheme

1977 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 573-624 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Mullins ◽  
J. H. Robb
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
Housing Scheme

Commentary on Housing, Health, and Well-Being in Aotearoa/New Zealand

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (6) ◽  
pp. 802-804
Author(s):  
Philippa Howden-Chapman ◽  
Nevil Pierse
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Premature Mortality ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Health And Well Being

Housing is poorly constructed for the New Zealand climate and is a major cause of poor health and premature mortality. Private rental housing is older and in poorer condition than public housing and owner-occupied housing. This special issue describes four different approaches to improving housing, which have implications for international housing, health, and well-being policies. The first approach looks at generating the evidence base for improving the quality of the rental sector; the second, the aftereffects of the Christchurch earthquake and the unprecedented role taken by the central government to override local government and community involvement in rebuilding housing and regenerating the city; the third, measuring the effectiveness of the remediation of public housing; and finally, community-based partnerships between community workers and academics to improve the housing of children who have been hospitalized for housing-sensitive hospitalizations.

Energy upgrade to Passive House standard for historic public housing in New Zealand

2015 ◽  
Vol 95 ◽  
pp. 211-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paola Leardini ◽  
Manfredo Manfredini ◽  
Maria Callau
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
Passive House ◽  
House Standard

scholarly journals Inclusive Housing: Exploring Culturally Inclusive + Accessible Design in the Contemporary New Zealand State House

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Lydia Powrie
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Housing Stock ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Building Envelope ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Spatial Features ◽  
Single Person ◽  
Housing Scheme

<p>The aim of this research is to establish and apply design methods that define an appropriate dwelling for New Zealand’s state housing. The central criteria for this is accessibility and cultural inclusivity. New Zealand’s current state housing scheme is struggling to provide for an ever-growing waitlist of eligible households. Furthermore, the size and design of state homes have remained relatively stagnant, while the average occupant has significantly deviated from the nuclear family it once was. Not only is the current housing stock predominantly low density, but it is also built for a nuclear family in bi-cultural society. However, state home occupants are no longer comprised of two parents + child(ren) from Pakeha or Maori backgrounds. Instead, single-person households, couples with no children or only one child from all ranges of ethnicities make up the majority of the state housing register.  This change suggests there is a potential need for a paradigm shift from three-four bedroom dwellings to one-two bedroom and five+ bedroom dwellings becoming the majority of the housing stock. Not only are the homes incorrect in bedroom size, but many are also inaccessible or culturally inappropriate for households. Due to New Zealand’s diverse range of cultures, there is ‘no one size fits all’ home type for each cultural group.  The findings of this thesis identify a lack of consideration in Housing NZ’s design guides and New Zealand Standards to the wider demographics of its residents. International and domestic case studies are comparatively analysed to identify spatial features that can inform the way state houses should be designed for New Zealand residents. This research has been used to create a design guidelines that provides flexible and inclusive dwellings. Finally, these guidelines are tested on a specific site in inner-city Wellington, proposing a range of dwelling typologies designed for accessibility and inclusivity that are explored at three key scales – the urban landscape, the building envelope and the interior.</p>

scholarly journals The Association of Built Environment and Physical Activity in Older Adults: Using a Citywide Public Housing Scheme to Reduce Residential Self-Selection Bias

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (9) ◽  
pp. 1973 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Lu ◽  
Long Chen ◽  
Yiyang Yang ◽  
Zhonghua Gou
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
Selection Bias ◽  
Self Selection ◽  
Housing Scheme ◽  
Recreational Walking ◽  
Housing Estates

Previous studies have documented numerous health benefits of conducting regular physical activity among older adults. The built environment is believed to be a key factor that can hinder or facilitate daily physical activity, such as walking and exercising. However, most empirical studies focusing on environment-physical activity associations exhibited residential self-selection bias with cross-sectional research design, engendering doubts about the impact of built environment on physical activity. To reduce this bias, we assessed physical activity behaviors of 720 Hong Kong older adults (≥65 years) residing in 24 public housing estates. The Hong Kong public housing scheme currently provides affordable rental flats for 2.1 million people or approximate 30% of total population. The applicants were allocated to one of 179 housing estates largely by family size and flat availability. Built environment characteristics were measured following the ‘5Ds’ principle: (street network) design, (land-use) diversity, density, distance to transit, and destination accessibility. Multilevel mixed models were used to explore the associations between the built environment and the different domains of physical activity (transportation walking, recreational walking, and recreational moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) while controlling for potential estate-level socioeconomic and individual confounders. We found that transportation walking was positively associated with the number of bus stops and the presence of Mass Transit Railway (MTR) stations. Recreational MVPA was positively related to the number of recreational facilities. However, land-use mix was negatively related to transportation walking, recreational walking, and recreational MVPA. The findings of this study support a threshold effect in the environment-physical activity associations. Furthermore, large-scale public housing schemes involving random or semi-random residence assignment in many cities may provide opportunities to explore built environments and physical activity behavior, with the potential to overcome residential self-selection bias.

scholarly journals Explanatory Models of Perception of Safety in a Public Housing Estate, Lagos, Nigeria

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 74
Author(s):  
Segun Okunola ◽  
Dolapo Amole
Keyword(s):  
Public Housing ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Social Participation ◽  
Fear Of Crime ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Explanatory Models ◽  
Perception Of Safety ◽  
Housing Scheme ◽  
International Publishing ◽  
Public Housing Estate

This paper reports a study on the perception of safety in a public housing scheme. It uses two different models to explain this phenomenon. The rationale was that the components of these models are associated with the quality of life of residents. The results suggest that the model which explains the perception of safety using facilitating factors (vulnerability and disorder) is more explanatory than the model which uses inhibiting factors (social participation and sense of community). Keywords: Social participation; fear of crime; perception of safety; sense of community; public housing, vulnerability eISSN 2514-7528 © 2018. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.

scholarly journals Inclusive Housing: Exploring Culturally Inclusive + Accessible Design in the Contemporary New Zealand State House

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Lydia Powrie
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Housing Stock ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Building Envelope ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Spatial Features ◽  
Single Person ◽  
Housing Scheme

<p>The aim of this research is to establish and apply design methods that define an appropriate dwelling for New Zealand’s state housing. The central criteria for this is accessibility and cultural inclusivity. New Zealand’s current state housing scheme is struggling to provide for an ever-growing waitlist of eligible households. Furthermore, the size and design of state homes have remained relatively stagnant, while the average occupant has significantly deviated from the nuclear family it once was. Not only is the current housing stock predominantly low density, but it is also built for a nuclear family in bi-cultural society. However, state home occupants are no longer comprised of two parents + child(ren) from Pakeha or Maori backgrounds. Instead, single-person households, couples with no children or only one child from all ranges of ethnicities make up the majority of the state housing register.  This change suggests there is a potential need for a paradigm shift from three-four bedroom dwellings to one-two bedroom and five+ bedroom dwellings becoming the majority of the housing stock. Not only are the homes incorrect in bedroom size, but many are also inaccessible or culturally inappropriate for households. Due to New Zealand’s diverse range of cultures, there is ‘no one size fits all’ home type for each cultural group.  The findings of this thesis identify a lack of consideration in Housing NZ’s design guides and New Zealand Standards to the wider demographics of its residents. International and domestic case studies are comparatively analysed to identify spatial features that can inform the way state houses should be designed for New Zealand residents. This research has been used to create a design guidelines that provides flexible and inclusive dwellings. Finally, these guidelines are tested on a specific site in inner-city Wellington, proposing a range of dwelling typologies designed for accessibility and inclusivity that are explored at three key scales – the urban landscape, the building envelope and the interior.</p>

Magellanic Cloud Eclipsing Binaries: Primary Distance Indicators

1999 ◽  
Vol 190 ◽  
pp. 563-566
Author(s):  
J. D. Pritchard ◽  
W. Tobin ◽  
J. V. Clausen ◽  
E. F. Guinan ◽  
E. L. Fitzpatrick ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Magellanic Cloud ◽  
Eclipsing Binaries ◽  
Fundamental Parameters ◽  
Distance Indicators

Our collaboration involves groups in Denmark, the U.S.A. Spain and of course New Zealand. Combining ground-based and satellite (IUEandHST) observations we aim to determine accurate and precise stellar fundamental parameters for the components of Magellanic Cloud Eclipsing Binaries as well as the distances to these systems and hence the parent galaxies themselves. This poster presents our latest progress.

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