Healthy Housing – He Kainga Oranga

Joel Pringle (Australians for Affordable Housing) and Charles Waldegrave (Family Centre) will discuss housing affordability at Thistle Hall on Monday 8 April at 5.30 pm. See the flyer! See a podcast of the event!

View an animation on the need for a Warrant of Fitness on rental housing to reduce the effects of child poverty.

Philippa Howden-Chapman was interviewed on 11 March about the Healthy Housing Index, and the possible introduction of a Warrant of Fitness for rental housing. Nick Smith, Minister of Housing, and Andrew King, President of the New Zealand Property Investors Association, were also interviewed.

On Thursday the 21st of February the group will be holding a Resilient Urban Futures Workshop as part of the Public Health Summer School. This will include the launch of the Resilient Urban Futures programme.

On Monday the 18th of February the group will be running a day long seminar on “Childhood housing and health” as part of the Public Health Summer School.

A competition in Dunedin has discovered the best and worst student flats.
The highest quality flats were charging the same or less rent than the worst ones.
See the tvnz website video here

Kim O’Sullivan interviewed about pre-payment meters on nine-to-noon. 8 October. 

Phillipa Howden-Chapman talked about heating New Zealand homes on radio on 26 July. 

On 20 July the group held a successful strategy day discussing current and future research.  A summary of the slides given is available here.

A highly successful workshop on the future of Social and Affordable Housing was held on the 28th of June.  Presenters set the scene, interspersed with discussions on how to move forward. ( Social housing –  history Ben Schrader; Social housing – health Michael Baker; Social /Affordable housing – where to? Philippa Howden-Chapman ; Affordable housing – economics Ralph Chapman; Partnerships and  principles – Christian Stearns)

On 28th of June the group will be hosting an action oriented workshop to facilitate collaboration between industry, government, community and universities to respond to the shortage of affordable, quality housing to rent or buy in New Zealand. If interested email Sarah.Bierre@otago.ac.nz

The evaluation of the Warm Up New Zealand insulation and heating programme has been released. He Kainga Oranga was part of the consortium which carried out the evaluation. The results show a highly favourable cost-benefit ratio of almost 5:1.
Metered Household Energy |
Cost Benefit Analysis (Revised) |
Health Costs and Mortality |
Industry & Employment