Rebuilding the Kainga: Lessons from Te Ao Hurihuri

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"An understanding of the ways of our tupuna, 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 Maori connections to whenua and kainga. Today, home ownership rates for Maori are well below the national average and Maori are over-represented in the statistics of substandard housing. Rebuilding the Kainga charts the recent resurgence of contemporary papakainga on whenua Maori. Reframing Maori housing as a Treaty issue, Kake envisions a future where Maori are supported to build businesses and affordable homes on whanau, hapu or Treaty settlement lands. The implications of this approach, Kake writes, are transformative.

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Jade Kake - Ngapuhi (Ngati Hau me Te Parawhau), Te Whakatohea, Te Arawa, BArchDes, GradCertDigDes, MArch(Prof) - is an architectural designer, housing advocate and researcher. She has experience working directly with Maori land trusts and other Maori organisations to realise their aspirations, particularly around papakainga housing and marae development, and in working with mana whenua groups to express their cultural values and narratives through the design of their physical environments. In her current role as Principal - Programme Design & Strategy for national Maori housing advocate Te Matapihi, Jade works to advance Maori housing outcomes at a national level through systems advocacy, capacity building, research and policy. Previously, Jade worked as an architectural graduate at designTRIBE Architects. Jade is fortunate to live within her home area of Whangarei, where she is leading several projects to support the re-establishment and development of papakainga communities.