![]() ![]() Renters are more likely to live in sub-standard housing, and Māori and Pasifika are more likely to rent. Things are worst for Māori and Pasifika children. Those children are 10 times more likely to die in the 10 years that follow. ![]() ![]() The Government will instead be starting with a report later this year.Ĭhildren in sub-standard housing are more likely to be hospitalised for diseases linked to that housing, more likely to be re-hospitalised and more likely to die young.Įach year, 6000 children are admitted to hospital with diseases linked to poor-quality housing. Mr Eaqub used the report's release to implore the Government to be much, much more ambitious with Kiwibuild and urged it to make immediate changes to rental laws. You fill in the gaps," Mr Eaqub said at the report's release, politely bleeping himself while in the company of the Minister. "The state of the Housing market is a cluster. Things are bad, it says, and they are not going to get better any time soon. The Housing Stocktake is authored by Alan Johnson of the Salvation Army, economist Shamubeel Eaqub and Otago University Professor of Public Health Philippa Howden-Chapman. The Government has commissioned what it calls a "warts and all" look at housing in New Zealand. ![]()
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