NEOBIOME

OT_051: HUD (2021) — MAIHI Ka Ora, The National Māori Housing Strategy 2021–2051

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OT_051: HUD (2021) — MAIHI Ka Ora, The National Māori Housing Strategy 2021–2051

Source

http://web.archive.org/web/20251213171053/https://www.hud.govt.nz/our-work/maihi-ka-ora-the-national-maori-housing-strategy — original source (opens in a new tab; the file is not redistributed)

Summary

MAIHI Ka Ora is New Zealand’s National Māori Housing Strategy 2021–2051, led in partnership with Māori and grounded in the articles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Its shared vision is that “all whānau have safe, healthy, affordable homes with secure tenure, across the Māori housing continuum,” and it frames “home” as both a physical structure and a whānau construct. It sits within the wider MAIHI Framework for Action (Te Maihi o te Whare Māori — Māori and Iwi Housing Innovation), organising the response as a whare whose pou (pillars) mark the stages whānau move through from housing insecurity to security and ownership. For Neobiome Intelligence its relevance is papakāinga — collective housing developed on whenua Māori and retained in collective ownership — which is the closest NZ Indigenous parallel to the Neobiome community-on-collective-land model, together with the Te Tiriti / partnership framing that recurs across the project’s Māori dimension.

Key claims

- claim: "MAIHI Ka Ora is the National Māori Housing Strategy 2021–2051 (Te Tūāpapa Kura Kāinga / Ministry of Housing and Urban Development), developed and led in partnership with Māori and grounded in the articles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi; its shared vision is that 'all whānau have safe, healthy, affordable homes with secure tenure, across the Māori housing continuum.' It frames 'home' as both a physical structure and a whānau construct."
  source_location: "Introduction (p.~) — vision statement; framing of 'home'"
- claim: "The strategy sits within the MAIHI Framework for Action (Te Maihi o te Whare Māori – Māori and Iwi Housing Innovation), a whole-of-system approach with three key workstreams, and established Te MAIHI Whare Wānanga as a critical part of its implementation."
  source_location: "§MAIHI principles and framework"
- claim: "The strategy is structured as a 'whare' (house) whose pou (pillars) represent the transition stages whānau traverse along the Māori housing continuum — from supporting whānau experiencing housing vulnerability/insecurity (He Whare Āwhina, He Haumaru) to supporting whānau to achieve housing security/permanence (Kāinga Pūmanawa) and onward toward ownership; the pou are held together by a strong Māori–Crown partnership and MAIHI Whare Wānanga."
  source_location: "§The whare / pou framework"
- claim: "Māori housing-deprivation statistics: in 2018/19 only about 50% of Māori were living in a warm, dry home; in 2018, 13% of Māori were living in a crowded household and 8% in a severely crowded household."
  source_location: "§Why we must address these priority areas (warm/dry, crowding, severe housing deprivation)"
- claim: "Papakāinga (collective housing on whenua Māori) is a central delivery vehicle, with government support for: infrastructure connecting the whenua boundary to the existing network; home-construction costs for affordable rental on small-scale papakāinga where the homes remain in the collective ownership of rōpū Māori (He Taupae Fund); and papakāinga planning funding (Te Puni Kōkiri)."
  source_location: "§Papakāinga on whenua Māori (funding programmes)"
- claim: "Deliverable target: 1,000 additional new houses by 2024, plus completing the infrastructure for a further 2,700 new house builds."
  source_location: "§Total deliverable"

Neobiome Intelligence relevance

  • D04 / community-on-collective-land model. Papakāinga — collective housing built on collectively-owned whenua Māori, with homes retained in collective ownership and a government planning → infrastructure → construction funding pathway — is the closest NZ Indigenous parallel to the Neobiome community-on-collective-land model. It complements the regulatory view (Tasman papakāinga zone rules, REG_003) and the practice view (OT_006) the wiki already holds OT_051.
  • Māori-partnership / Te Tiriti thread. The Te Tiriti-grounded partnership framing, and the definition of “home” as a physical and whānau construct, reinforce the Te Ao Māori design dimension running through materials (OT_045) and wellbeing/Te Whare Tapa Whā (OT_049, healthy_housing) OT_051.
  • ⚠ Scope: a policy/strategy document — vision, framework and funding programmes, not technical or quantitative community data; papakāinga is the NI hook. The “1,000 houses by 2024” is a 2021 target (now historical).

Research targets

Research gaps

  • Papakāinga delivery detail and outcomes (cost per home, number delivered, the He Taupae / TPK programme terms) — to assess papakāinga as a financing and tenure route for a collective community build, rather than only as an aspiration.

Connections

Links to

Sources (4): OT_006 · OT_045 · OT_049 · REG_003

Concepts (1): Healthy Housing — Warmth, Dryness & Wellbeing

Referenced by

Sources (4): OT_058 · OT_059 · OT_136 · URL_035

EDT domains (1): D04: Sustainable Habitat & Building Technology

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