Māori Housing

Working with partner agencies to ensure whānau have access to healthy homes with stable tenure and have opportunities for home ownership and investment.

Last updated: Tuesday, 30 September 2025 | Rātū, 30 Mahuru, 2025

New Builds - small scale papakāinga

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Critical Repairs, to whānau-owned homes

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Sorted Kāinga Ora - financial capability programme

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What has been delivered

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Māori housing support from other agencies

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Analysis of District Plan Papakāinga Rules

This report explores the different ways district plans across the motu enable the development of papakāinga through local planning rules.

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Māori Housing: A new dawn for Te Āwhina Marae

  • Date: 06 October 2023

Hundreds of whānau and the wider Motueka community gathered recently to celebrate a huge milestone in the housing journey of Te Āwhina Marae. 

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Māori Housing: Urban development in Tāmaki

  • Date: 10 August 2022

Whenua where an urban Māori housing development will soon sit was blessed and had the sod turned recently in Mt Wellington, Tāmaki Makaurau.

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Māori Housing: Iwi prototypes underway

  • Date: 14 June 2022

Over the past year, Te Puni Kōkiri and Te Tūāpapa Kura Kāinga have been working with a number of iwi groups to test, develop, and implement new Māori housing models.

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Māori housing: Whānau enjoying papakāinga life in Tauranga Moana

  • Date: 11 April 2022

On a sloped section surrounded by orchards, overlooking Rangataua Bay in Tauranga, sit nine new whare all part of the Ranginui 12 Trust papakāinga.

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Māori Housing: Large papakāinga underway in Motueka

  • Date: 11 April 2022

As dawn broke on Monday morning, karakia rang out around Te Āwhina Marae in Motueka.

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