Home Truths: Confronting New Zealand’s Housing Crisis (Philippa Howden-Chapman; BWB Texts,
Bridget Williams Books, 2015)
Our Place – Setting a direction for improving housing affordability in Aotearoa/New Zealand
(Community Housing Aotearoa, October 2016)
Progressive thinking: Ten Perspectives on housing (Public Service Association, 2017)
A Stocktake of New Zealand’s Housing (Alan Johnson, Philippa Howden-Chapman, Shamubeel
Eaqub; February 2018)
Rebuilding the Kāinga: Lessons from Te Ao Hurihuri (Jade Kake; BWB Texts, Bridget Williams Books,
2019)
A principles framework for taking action on Māori/Indigenous Homelessness in Aotearoa/New
Zealand (Keri Lawson-Te Aho, Paikea Fariu-Ariki, Jenny Ombler, Clare Asipinall, Philippa HowdenChapman, Nevil Pierse; SSM – Population Health 8, 2019)
He Mana Kāinga, He Kāinga Ora – Thriving Māori whānau (Wayne Knox, Te Matapihi, in Housing
Works Magazine, 2019)
Special issue on the question of housing in Aotearoa New Zealand (Counterfutures Issue 9; 2020)
New Zealand’s Transformation from Housing Finance to Housing Financialization (Kay Saville-Smith,
2020)
Transformative Housing Policy for Aotearoa New Zealand: A Briefing Note on Addressing the
Housing Crisis (Jacqueline Paul, Jenny McArthur, Jordan King, Max Harris, and Scott Figenshow;
October 2020)
Placing the right to adequate housing into national law e.g. Canada and South Africa
Canada’s National Housing Strategy Act 2019
In 2019, the Canadian Parliament passed the National Housing Strategy Act which adopts and
applies a human rights-based approach within the Government’s national housing policy. Section 4
of the National Housing Strategy Act recognises the right to adequate housing as a fundamental
human right central to human dignity, well-being and community. The Government commits to
prioritising the most vulnerable in need of housing.
South African Constitutional Court: Government of the Republic of South Africa v Grootboom
This case was heard in the South African Constitutional Court in 2000. The Constitutional Court
found that:
1) Social rights (rights to housing, adequate standard of living, health, etc) are enforceable in
South Africa
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