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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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  • 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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  • Rachel Dohig

    … Rachel works between housing and energy poverty research, with a particular … community. Her Master’s thesis explored the experiences of public housing tenants during COVID-19 and the public … works as an Assistant Research Fellow with the University of Otago, Wellington between He Kāinga Oranga/Housing and …
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  • Sustaining Tenancies or Swift Evictions: Rent Arrears in the Tenancy Tribunal

    … Abstract There is a contradiction at the centre of tenancy practice and policy. On the one hand is the goal of sustaining tenancies to prevent homelessness and, on the … on achieving a "swift eviction". We analyse observations of tribunal hearings and mediations along with a sample of
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  • Zhiting Chen

    … summer indoor overheating in Aotearoa New Zealand housing and its impact on health and wellbeing, with a … health and well-being and explores the challenges of energy poverty. Zhiting has a deep interest in … Pierse, N. Nov 2024. ‘Energy and health equity impacts of a transition to using active cooling in a temperate …
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  • Rainbow community face high rates of homelessness

    … Earlier research from Fraser examined the experiences of eight people from the LGBTIQ+ community who had been … homeless. There was a clear disparity in the proportion of homeless who were LGBTIQ+, Fraser said. However New … data on the LGBTIQ+ population, so they made use of international figures. "Our communities usually make up …
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  • Book Review of “Housing, Fuel Poverty and Health: a Pan-European Analysis” By Jonathan D. Healy.

    …  Book Review ofHousing, Fuel Poverty and Health: a Pan-European Analysis” By … ISBN 0 7546 4218 6. Reviewed by Philippa Howden-Chapman, Housing and Health Research Program, University of Otago (Wellington), New Zealand. 2006 … Book Review of
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  • Health outcomes of young children....

    … from Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, and the University of Otago, the Housing, Health, and the Well-being of Children …
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  • Lucy Telfar-Barnard

    … respiratory disease; tenancy law and the regulation of rental housing quality; New Zealand housing construction types, …
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  • Summer heat pump use could lead to power shortages in winter - experts

    … the summer period could leave lakes depleted by the middle of next year, when demand increases further as temperatures … O'Sullivan, an energy hardship expert at the University of Otago's Department of Public Health, said a survey of 219 people during the …
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