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Development of a broad range of sector skills
including planning, economic management,
project management, and construction.
• Focus on a key issue which most affects Māori.
• An independent Māori entity reporting directly
to Parliament.
• A national level kāhui as an independent entity
based on Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
• A regional and local housing system led
by hapū/ iwi, using auditing processes to
demonstrate accountability.
With audit and measurement … to build
relationship, mana, and sustainability.
Responsibility to iwi, hapū and collective
responsibility/tino rangatiratanga.
• Independent Māori entity (cf Māori Health
Authority) with an independent Māori voice.
Collective responsibility and accountability are the
tikanga Māori framework.
A Māori-led housing entity would enable tino
rangatiratanga in the housing sector.
• Māori leaders could identify the steps to be
taken or the most constructive model.
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Research required on interface between the
Kāwanatanga and rangatiratanga sphere.
Safeguard independence of entity using
statutory mechanisms.
Strengths of this model:
• Māori decision making by and for Māori.
• Rangatiratanga.
• Culturally appropriate housing that could
enhance identity and well-being.
Weaknesses and risks of this model:
• Lack of independence from the Kāwana: the
Māori Health Authority reports to a Minister,
which does not achieve tino rangatiratanga.
• Funding – if the entity is ‘starved’ and unable to
carry out its functions.
• Different perceptions and measures of success
and accountability from the Kāwana and
likely increasingly stringent accountability
mechanisms the greater the autonomy.
Te Kāhui Tika Tangata New Zealand Human Rights Commission Housing Inquiry