Current Research Projects

Heating Up Cooling Off

Heating up, Cooling off: managing summer heat flows in NZ homes

Housing children and youth: Ensuring Aotearoa’s future get the best start possible

Professor Nevil Pierse bringing together world-leading experts to ensure that Aotearoa’s housing support system is sustainable, effective and whanau-centred.

Research to maximise the health and wellbeing gains from housing

Professor Nevil Pierse and Professor Philippa Howden-Chapman bring interventions to help Kiwis live in warm, dry, mould-free and safe homes

Housing children and youth: Ensuring Aotearoa’s future get the best start possible

Our 5-year research programme, funded by the MBIE Endeavour Research Programme fund, has brought together world-leading experts to ensure that Aotearoa’s housing support system is sustainable, effective, and whānau-centred.

Why this research and why now?

Making a home in employer-provided housing

Across the world, people in a broad range of professions live in housing provided by their employers. Yet little is known about life in employer-provided housing. This project investigates how a single relationship that secures both housing and employment affects experiences of home, and analyses differences over time and between different sectors of workers. 

Raukawa Energy Innovation Project

He Kāinga Oranga team members are working in partnership with Raukawa and The Lever Room on the Raukawa Energy Innovation Project, an iwi-led initiative to address energy hardship and help transform the lives of whānau living in South Waikato.

Takatāpui/LGBTQI+ peoples' experiences of housing stability

Dr Brodie Fraser Postdoctoral Fellow researches Takatāpui/LGBTQI+ peoples' experiences of housing stability.

Ending homelessness in New Zealand: Housing First

Evaluation of the implementation of ‘Housing First’

The impact of COVID-19 restrictions on home energy use

Has life during COVID-19 changed energy use and rates of energy poverty?

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