• Individual and collective action for healthy rental housing in New Zealand: an historical and contemporary study

    … and to feelings of stress and anxiety. In New Zealand, people who rent are most likely to experience health problems … and contributed to policy and law change that helped people access healthy housing. However, tenant groups faced … them to do, a risky endeavour, especially for low-income people. At the political level, group representation by …
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  • A greater proportion of public housing in communities supports tenant health

    … and Health Research group say that historically, people have advocated for developments where public housing … “We urgently need to provide more public housing to enable people to live lives of dignity. Being housed is much more … analysing the health outcomes of the more than 152,000 people living in public housing in 2013. They were …
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  • Heating Up Cooling Off

    … three quarters of homes in these regions. While most people were using passive cooling methods like opening doors … overheating and found that tāngata whaikaha / disabled people face particular challenges from indoor overheating. Disabled people described to us difficulty maintaining thermal comfort …
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  • Evaluation of Warm Up New Zealand: Heat Smart programme

    … data is collected from the Ministry of Health for the people who live at these homes including health outcomes and … rates and mortality rates for recently hospitalised older people. We found that there was no statistically significant …
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  • Stable housing a critical step to help displaced young people

    … the first step towards improving health outcomes for young people who experience homelessness. Please listen . … Stable housing a critical step to help displaced young people
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  • Tīria Pehi

    … Tīria comes from Whangarei, having worked supporting people in serious housing need in the community, through … better housing outcomes, not only for Māori but for all people of Aotearoa. With a BA in social science from Auckland …
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  • Rainbow community face high rates of homelessness

    … research from Fraser examined the experiences of eight people from the LGBTIQ+ community who had been homeless. … of the broader population," but "about 20 to 40 percent of people experiencing homelessness are part of the rainbow …
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  • The evolution and transferability of Housing First (HF) in Aotearoa, New Zealand (Aotearoa).

    … and Employment. He Kainga Oranga has partnered with the People’s Project and Waikato University to establish the … of service providers implementing HF programmes and key people working in government and community organisations with …
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  • Clare Aspinall

    … and Health Research Programme has partnered with the People’s Project and the University of Waikato to establish … providers implementing Housing First  programmes and key people working in government and community organisations with …
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  • The Panel with Sally Wenley and Guy Williams (Part 1) / Permanent housing for homeless people works

    … Permanent housing for homeless people works. Hear @Otago Professor Nevil Pierse on @RNZ the … and Guy Williams (Part 1) / Permanent housing for homeless people works …
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