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  • Dance Your PhD 2016 - Moller's Maze: Impact of Social Housing Upgrades on Occupants

    … Wellington City Council, with the help of a grant from the Central Government when Labour was in power, is upgrading its social housing stock. Lara Rapson’s PhD specifically centers around the upgrade of Arlington Apartments Site 2. Using Site 1 and 3 as control …
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  • World-first Census data highlights housing deprivation in LGBTQI+ community

    … LGBTQI+ New Zealanders have been experiencing severe housing deprivation at higher rates than non-LGBTQI+ — … not LGBTQI+. The LGBTQI+ population had higher proportions of people affected across all categories of homelessness — those without shelter, in temporary …
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  • Housing WOFs should be compulsory - UK expert

    … Professor David Ormandy  talks to Kathryn Ryan about the Housing Health and Safety Rating System – a scheme he … been adopted in the U.S. and has inspired the University of Otago, He Kainga Oranga, the Housing and Health Research Programme’s rental warrant of fitness. David is also contributing to the …
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  • The Front Page: $1 billion a year could be saved by improving quality of NZ homes

    … An expert in public health and housing says that New Zealand could save around a $1 billion by improving the quality of our housing stock. Philippa Howden-Chapman, an Otago University professor of public health specialising in housing, health and …
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  • Tackling housing instability for LGBTIQ+ people in Aotearoa

    … and gender minorities (LGBTIQ+) people comprise  20-40% of those experiencing homelessness, despite only comprising 5-10% of the general population. 1 LGBTIQ+ people experience … can be prevented in the first place. Read more … Tackling housing instability for LGBTIQ+ people in Aotearoa …
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  • Rental Warrant of Fitness for Wellington

    … Wellington City Council is partnering with the University of Otago, Wellington, to launch a voluntary Rental Warrant of Fitness for minimum housing standards in Wellington, Mayor Justin Lester has …
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  • New research highlights the benefit of injury prevention measures in Māori households

    … study, in collaboration with  He Kāinga Oranga - Housing and Health Research Programme  at University of Otago, shows relatively low-cost modifications in homes can prevent 31 per cent of fall injuries. … New research highlights the benefit of
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  • Mould may trigger asthma

    … The study by the University of Otago in Wellington compared the homes of 150 children who had visited their GPs for a first prescription of asthma medication with those of 300 children who had never …
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  • The cost saving of environmental housing

    … Professor Harrison Fraker, one of the keynote speakers at the International Conference on Energy and Environment of Residential Buildings (ICEERB) held last year at the … of a neglected neighbourhood in Oakland, California where housing would have a ‘deep energy retrofit’ to turn it into …
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  • The Housing Question

    … Dr Elinor Chisholm talks to Plains FM about rental housing regulation and how it fails to protect tenants, the history of tenant collective action for healthy rental housing, and …
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