Te Puni Kōkiri has a vision of thriving whānau. When whānau thrive, so do their communities, hapū, iwi and all of Aotearoa.One of our key focus areas is working to ensure whānau have access to good housing and have opportunities for home ownership and investment – because enabling access to more affordable, healthy, and secure homes can lead to better outcomes for whānau. As part of this mahi on housing, we work to address systemic barriers to developing housing on Māori freehold land and other types of whenua Māori. For many years, we have supported the development of papakāinga through funding programmes like the Māori Housing Network and Whai Kāinga Whai Oranga. 1 Through this mahi, our kaimahi have seen the way planning rules and the resource consent process can add unnecessary time and cost to what is already a long and challenging journey for whānau to develop papakāinga. An analysis completed in 2016 by Te Matapihi, the national representative body for Māori housing, also found some district plans did not enable papakāinga developments. This report offers a snapshot of the extent to which different district plans across the motu work to enable papakāinga today. It identifies examples of good practice from among the 65 plans we reviewed and makes recommendations for how local planning rules can be improved in future. We hope this will contribute to planning practices that will better enable whānau to use their whenua to address housing needs and build strong communities where they can thrive. We plan to follow up the desktop research in this report with further work to understand whānau experiences of how council processes work in practice. We also aim to bring councils and Māori housing specialists together to discuss the findings in this report and share insight about how to ensure our planning systems better support papakāinga development. We discuss these plans further in the Next Steps section at the end of the report.
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