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C O V I D - 1 9 & M Ā O R I H O U S I N G
W H A T D O W E D O N O W ?

Act now. Before it's too late.

...the families... are not going to be able to

break the shackles of state housing

dependency. And nobody wants to be freed
more than these families... It is incumbent

on us to come up with some sort of

strategy to fix it.

....almost 75% of Māori are under the age of
35. So if we don’t fix this now, we are in for

a heap of trouble. We’ve probably got a

couple of generations left. And then it is

going to be too late… there will be no

tūrangawaewae... no landing place.

And that’s what I see in the young tamariki

today... brought up in the urban areas,

their wairua is roaming, it can’t land… they

are very very distraught and restless... We
have to try and come up with something.

And I am prepared to spend the rest of my

employed life looking for a solution.

Ricky Houghton
CEO of He Korowai Trust