Māori housing providers still building despite Budget loss

Māori housing providers still building despite Budget loss
The reality isn’t always as pretty as the picture. (Image: Ministry of Housing and Urban Development)
Nikitin Sallee
In the past 10 years, the number of Māori community housing providers has grown faster than the sector as a whole. Issues of culture, values and funding remain. This is the eighth and final article in a series on the business of social housing.To read the rhetoric, Māori housing is booming and drawing close to the centre of the housing universe.The 30-year national Māori housing strategy, MAIHI Ka Ora, “puts Māori at the heart of Aotearoa New Zealand's housing system”, according to the Ministry of Housing and Urban Developm...

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