Housing

Information for the Housing Sector

Service information and referral forms

• Bay of Plenty Healthy Homes - Bay of Plenty DHB
• Lakes Healthy Homes - Lakes DHB

Reports and Publications

• Residents’ perspectives of the impact of housing on their health and wellbeing - 2017 - Toi Te Ora Public Health
• Housing in Lakes and Bay of Plenty data report - 2014 - Toi Te Ora Public Health
• Housing and Health position statement - Toi Te Ora Public Health
• Housing policy statement - New Zealand College of Public Health Medicine
• Reports - Salvation Army

Useful links

• Healthy homes initiative - Ministry of Health
• He Kainga Oranga, Housing and Health Research Programme - University of Otago
• Housing and health - WHO Europe
• Health and cold damp houses - Environmental Health Indicators New Zealand
• Health and household crowding - Environmental Health Indicators New Zealand 
• Home heating - Environmental Health Indicators New Zealand
    

Lakes and Bay of Plenty Healthy Housing Forum

• See information further below.

The Lakes and Bay of Plenty Housing and Health Seminar - 2016

The seminar was held on 30 June 2016 at the Rotorua Energy Events Centre.  The aims of the seminar were:

• To host a one day housing seminar to discuss housing related health issues.

• To collect information from attendees regarding current and developing activity in the Bay of Plenty and Lakes regions.

• To scope the potential for the establishment of a Bay of Plenty and Lakes Housing Forum for medium term governance.

Eighty people attended the seminar. Attendees included representation from regional and local councils; district health boards (DHBs), primary health organisations (PHOs), government agencies, philanthropic funders, industry and people working on housing improvement projects.

A total of 14 presentations were given on the day, the presentations and presenters are listed below:

1. Housing - purpose of the day - Dr Jim Miller, Toi Te Ora Public Health

2. A brief overview of quantitative information on housing in the Bay of Plenty - James Scarfe, Toi Te Ora Public Health

3. The physical conditions of homes in the Bay of Plenty - Nik Gregg, Sustainability Options

4. Housing, health and acute rheumatic fever - Jane Oliver, He Kainga Oranga - University of Otago

5. Lakes DHB Area rheumatic fever housing referral programmes - Kate Stewart

6. Bay of Plenty DHB area rheumatic fever housing referral programmes - Brian Pointon, Bay of Plenty DHB

7. A child’s right to housing - Alan Johnson, Child Poverty Action Group

8. A qualitative housing study in the Bay of Plenty - Lindsay Lowe and James Scarfe, Toi Te Ora Public Health

9. Maketu Healthy Whare - Maria Horne, Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Whakaue ki Maketu

10. The successes of Kawerau Neighbourhoods of Healthy Homes - Glenn Sutton, Kawerau District Council

11. Minginui forest village - Te Waiti Rangiwai, Te Runanga O Ngati Whare

12. Minginui forest village: A housing case study - Katarina Roa and Denise Riini, Waiariki Bay of Plenty Polytechnic

13. Te Puni Kōkiri - Māori Housing Network - Ngawa Hall, Te Puni Kōkiri

14. Home performance advisor training - Jo Wills, Sustainability Options

15. A regional housing forum - Brian Pointon, Bay of Plenty DHB

Lakes and Bay of Plenty Healthy Housing Forum

The role of the Lakes and Bay of Plenty Healthy Housing Forum is to provide leadership and coordination for healthy housing work, in order to improve the health of vulnerable communities and families/whanau in the region, and reduce health care costs.

The Forum is a regionally-driven group, focused on providing insulation and other healthy homes interventions to both privately-owned and rented houses of whanau and families in BOP and Lakes.
 

Objectives of the Forum

• Proactively seeking sustainable funding for Healthy Homes initiatives in the medium term across all potential funders to address housing needs in prioritised communities.
• To explore efficiencies within community-based projects, so that costs can be reduced and more homes can be improve across the wider Bay of Plenty.
• Ensuring good practice in the implementing of community-based healthy housing programmes that provide scale, quality and community engagement.