Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jul 20, 2017 17:16:10 GMT 12
CHRISTCHURCH NATIONAL MARAE HOUSING 'FIRST' IN SOUTH ISLAND
A $3 million project to build six three-bedroom homes on Christchurch's Nga Hau e Wha National Marae is expected to be finished late November.
The social housing properties, on the marae reservation in Pages Rd, Aranui, are the first of what could ultimately become a 17-home papakainga – a form of housing development that happens on multiple-owned Maori or ancestral land.
Marae Nga Maata Waka housing manager Arana Talbot said the development was believed to be one of the first in the South Island.
"It is unique in that it is on the national marae, the only one in the world which has been declared by statute a place for every New Zealand citizen."....
www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/94671950/christchurch-national-marae-housing-first-in-the-south
A $3 million project to build six three-bedroom homes on Christchurch's Nga Hau e Wha National Marae is expected to be finished late November.
The social housing properties, on the marae reservation in Pages Rd, Aranui, are the first of what could ultimately become a 17-home papakainga – a form of housing development that happens on multiple-owned Maori or ancestral land.
Marae Nga Maata Waka housing manager Arana Talbot said the development was believed to be one of the first in the South Island.
"It is unique in that it is on the national marae, the only one in the world which has been declared by statute a place for every New Zealand citizen."....
www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/94671950/christchurch-national-marae-housing-first-in-the-south