An understanding of the ways of our tpuna, coupled with the best of new thinking from New Zealand and abroad, has significant potential for sustainable housing models.
Colonial settlement and the discriminatory policies of successive governments have challenged Mori connections to whenua and kinga. Today, home ownership rates for Mori are well below the national average and Mori are over-represented in the statistics of substandard housing.
Rebuilding the Kingacharts the recent resurgence of contemporary papakinga on whenua Mori. Reframing Mori housing as a Treaty issue, Kake envisions a future where Mori are supported to build businesses and affordable homes on whnau, hap or Treaty settlement lands. The implications of this approach, Kake writes, are transformative.