{"id":6600,"date":"2015-07-16T09:12:29","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T20:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=6600"},"modified":"2015-07-16T09:50:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T20:50:30","slug":"maori-locked-out-of-auckland-housing-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=6600","title":{"rendered":"Maori locked out of Auckland housing market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/avatr.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/avatr.gif\" alt=\"avatr\" width=\"70\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Mana News editor Joe Trinder<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NOhousesForMaori.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6623\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NOhousesForMaori.jpg\" alt=\"NOhousesForMaori\" width=\"724\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NOhousesForMaori.jpg 724w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NOhousesForMaori-300x152.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NOhousesForMaori-570x288.jpg 570w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/NOhousesForMaori-701x354.jpg 701w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Very little focus is being put into increasing Maori home ownership but foreign\u00a0investors from all over the world are being encouraged to buy\u00a0up kiwi homes.<\/p>\n<p>An Auckland University study of home ownership rates among M\u0101ori shows that those who consider themselves to look stereotypically M\u0101ori are less likely to own their own home.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Nobody wants to acknowledge that they are racist or that racism exists in our country, but there&#8217;s still clear inequities between groups. Women are paid less than men for doing the same work. We&#8217;ve still got a gender wage gap. It&#8217;s unconscious bias. It&#8217;s what people do.&#8221; Radio New Zealand<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maori home-buyers is only 3.2% and Maori home ownership remains low.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/graph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6618\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/graph.jpg\" alt=\"graph\" width=\"620\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/graph.jpg 620w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/graph-300x150.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/graph-570x285.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Maori population has grown 11-fold, from 53,000 in 1911 to 600,000 in 2013, while the non-Maori population has grown only 3.7 times from almost exactly 1 million to 3.8 million. Unfortunately Maori home ownership has not grown at that rate and government has no ambitions of addressing this issue.<\/p>\n<p>Recently the ministry of Maori development \u00a0reversed a decision for $20 million allocated\u00a0for Maori housing provider Te Pou Matakana to be re directed back to government coffers. Te Puni K\u014dkiri\u00a0(<em>Ministry of M\u0101ori Development<\/em>)\u00a0promised to establish a new housing unit to assist first home buyers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Mana News editor Joe Trinder Very little focus is being put into increasing Maori home ownership but foreign\u00a0investors from all over the world are being encouraged to buy\u00a0up kiwi homes. An Auckland University study of home ownership rates among M\u0101ori shows that those who consider themselves to look stereotypically M\u0101ori are less likely to own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-housing","category-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6600"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6600"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6635,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6600\/revisions\/6635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}