{"id":3363,"date":"2021-10-27T13:42:34","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T00:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/UnitecResearchBlog\/?p=3363"},"modified":"2021-10-27T13:55:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T00:55:35","slug":"rangatahi-ki-te-kainga-a-research-project-that-investigates-housing-for-rangatahi-maori","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/UnitecResearchBlog\/index.php\/rangatahi-ki-te-kainga-a-research-project-that-investigates-housing-for-rangatahi-maori\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangatahi ki te Kainga: A Research project that investigates housing for rangatahi M\u0101ori"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Guest post by Cat Mitchell, Ng\u0101 Wai a Te T\u016b\u012b M\u0101ori and Indigenous Research Centre<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Owning a home has been seen by generations of New Zealanders as a rite of passage and a sign of one’s move into adulthood. However, this traditional milestone has become increasingly difficult to achieve in the context of steeply rising property prices in recent decades. This is especially true in T\u0101maki Makaurau, where there have been significant increases in housing costs in recent times. According to Statista<\/a> (2021), the median house price in Auckland City has reached well over one million dollars ($1.3m) as of August 2021. Relatively low income levels, high living costs and high property prices contribute to a situation in which many, including large numbers of M\u0101ori, are excluded from home ownership. Alongside this, the relative youth of the sizeable M\u0101ori population in T\u0101maki Makaurau means M\u0101ori are facing the greatest barriers to achieving home ownership. As Maia Ratana, a researcher at Unitec\u2019s Ng\u0101 Wai a Te T\u016b\u012b M\u0101ori and Indigenous Research Centre<\/a> and a Lecturer at Unitec\u2019s School of Architecture<\/a>, explains, current policy and government initiatives do not allow rangatahi M\u0101ori many choices. She says, \u201cHome ownership is being pushed further out of reach for rangatahi, and with private rental costs also rising if things stay the same, the future for rangatahi and housing is ominous.\u201d This situation has profound implications for the lives of rangatahi M\u0101ori and will potentially have long-term intergenerational effects. In light of the ongoing housing issues, a group of rangatahi researchers within Ng\u0101 Wai a Te T\u016b\u012b successfully won a Building Better Homes, Towns & Cities research grant in 2020 to investigate rangatahi M\u0101ori housing experiences and aspirations in Auckland using a kaupapa M\u0101ori approach. This three-year project, titled Rangatahi ki te Kainga, aims to draw attention to the housing issues young M\u0101ori encounter and bring rangatahi voices into the housing policy and decision-making space \u2013 an area that has not paid much attention to the experiences of young urban M\u0101ori to date. Phase one of the project (the environmental scan) has been completed, and the researchers are now moving into the second phase, which involves engagement with rangatahi M\u0101ori. This project will also seek to identify rangatahi M\u0101ori leadership in housing to shine light on positive housing innovations. This is critical work as policymakers and government look to develop multifaceted solutions to the complex and pressing housing issues facing our community, especially for younger generations. Given the difficulties encountered by rangatahi Ma\u014dri in terms of housing, the work of these researchers has the potential to be both groundbreaking and impactful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guest post by Cat Mitchell, Ng\u0101 Wai a Te T\u016b\u012b M\u0101ori and Indigenous Research Centre Owning a home has been seen by generations of New Zealanders as a rite of passage and a sign of one’s move into adulthood. However,… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,53,394,21,59],"tags":[594,488,593,490,550,592],"class_list":["post-3363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-architecture","category-building","category-epress","category-featured","category-guest-blog","tag-building-better-homes-towns-and-cities","tag-kaupapa-maori","tag-maia-ratana","tag-nga-wai-a-te-tui","tag-unitec-new-zealand","tag-unitec-school-of-architecture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/UnitecResearchBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/UnitecResearchBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/UnitecResearchBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/UnitecResearchBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/UnitecResearchBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/UnitecResearchBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3364,"href":"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/UnitecResearchBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions\/3364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/UnitecResearchBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/UnitecResearchBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/UnitecResearchBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/UnitecResearchBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}