What about the kids? : identifying children in the housing support system in Aotearoa, New Zealand
Pehi, Tiria
What about the kids? : identifying children in the housing support system in Aotearoa, New Zealand Tiria Pehi, Jenny Ombler, Mary Buchanan, Kimberly O'Sullivan, Terrence Jiang, Polly Atatoa-Carr and Nevil Pierse - Wiley, 2025 - Children & Society .
Children & Society, 2025, First published online, 12 January 2025
In Aotearoa New Zealand (henceforth referred to as Aotearoa) a range of housing supports are aimed at improving homeownership rates and making both private rental and public housing more available. Despite these “supports”, a large number of children, adolescents and young people are experiencing housing insecurity or severe housing deprivation. Housing intersects with health, education, state care and welfare to influence a range of outcomes for children, therefore this paper addresses the critical issue of access to housing supports for children and adolescents. Through Official Information Act requests and a review of existing housing sector data, we found 323,257 children within the housing support system in Aotearoa New Zealand, with Māori (Indigenous People of Aotearoa) children disproportionately represented. We describe how children are largely unaccounted for in housing support system data, and this invisibility therefore challenges the understanding of the extent, inequities, and impact of the housing sector on children. We argue the urgent need for transformative policies centred on children, embedded in Te Tiriti o Waitangi (the Treaty of Waitangi), to ensure all children have access to stable, healthy, and secure housing for a brighter future. (Authors' abstract). Record #9100
ADOLESCENTS
CHILD WELFARE
CHILDREN
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
FAMILIES
FAMILY VIOLENCE
HOUSING
INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
MĀORI
POVERTY
SOCIAL SERVICES
STATISTICS
TAIOHI
TAITAMARIKI
TAMARIKI
TATAURANGA
TIRITI O WAITANGI
TOKO I TE ORA
Treaty of Waitangi
TUAKOKA
TŪKINOTANGA Ā-WHĀNAU
WHĀNAU
WHARE NOHO
YOUNG PEOPLE
NEW ZEALAND
What about the kids? : identifying children in the housing support system in Aotearoa, New Zealand Tiria Pehi, Jenny Ombler, Mary Buchanan, Kimberly O'Sullivan, Terrence Jiang, Polly Atatoa-Carr and Nevil Pierse - Wiley, 2025 - Children & Society .
Children & Society, 2025, First published online, 12 January 2025
In Aotearoa New Zealand (henceforth referred to as Aotearoa) a range of housing supports are aimed at improving homeownership rates and making both private rental and public housing more available. Despite these “supports”, a large number of children, adolescents and young people are experiencing housing insecurity or severe housing deprivation. Housing intersects with health, education, state care and welfare to influence a range of outcomes for children, therefore this paper addresses the critical issue of access to housing supports for children and adolescents. Through Official Information Act requests and a review of existing housing sector data, we found 323,257 children within the housing support system in Aotearoa New Zealand, with Māori (Indigenous People of Aotearoa) children disproportionately represented. We describe how children are largely unaccounted for in housing support system data, and this invisibility therefore challenges the understanding of the extent, inequities, and impact of the housing sector on children. We argue the urgent need for transformative policies centred on children, embedded in Te Tiriti o Waitangi (the Treaty of Waitangi), to ensure all children have access to stable, healthy, and secure housing for a brighter future. (Authors' abstract). Record #9100
ADOLESCENTS
CHILD WELFARE
CHILDREN
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
FAMILIES
FAMILY VIOLENCE
HOUSING
INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
MĀORI
POVERTY
SOCIAL SERVICES
STATISTICS
TAIOHI
TAITAMARIKI
TAMARIKI
TATAURANGA
TIRITI O WAITANGI
TOKO I TE ORA
Treaty of Waitangi
TUAKOKA
TŪKINOTANGA Ā-WHĀNAU
WHĀNAU
WHARE NOHO
YOUNG PEOPLE
NEW ZEALAND