Healthy Housing – He Kainga Oranga

Brodie Fraser has just completed her PhD on takatāpui/LGBTIQ homelessness (Sponsored by MBIE funded Housing First Programme)
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Please watch Professor Philippa Howden Chapman Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute: AHURI Covid-19 Presentation

Our housing and health research programme He Kāinga Oranga is one of the big winners in the latest HRC grants,  set to receive just under $5 million over five years to continue research to maximise the health and wellbeing gains from housing. Please Read  for more details

Budget 2020 – Expert Reaction on Housing from Distinguished Professor Philippa Howden-Chapman and Dr Lucy Telfar Barnard

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Professor Philippa Howden- Chapman has been appointed as one of the six board members of Kāinga Ora.  Please Read

Lead researcher at the Housing and Health Research Programme, Kim Nathan, a PhD student at the University of Otago, Wellington, says two- thirds (69 per cent) of the more than 300,000 children studied had moved house at least once by the time they were four years old. For the details and the publication Please read

Renting isn’t about ‘surviving’ or ‘enduring’ – it’s about having a warm, dry home

Kimberley O’Sullivan, a research fellow at He Kainga Oranga Housing and Health Research Programme said her research has shown that prepay customers usually ended up paying more than they would on the open market, please read for more details.

Congratulations to Dr Amore, who makes the homeless count, and is receiving her PhD at a graduation ceremony at the University of Otago, Dunedin on May 11. Please read for more details and more information here.

Why don’t owners improve their homes? Results from a survey conducted by researchers from He Kainga Oranga, the Housing and Health Research Programme following a housing warrant of fitness assessment for health and safety. Please read the paper.