PHOTO:MATTHEW TSO/STUFF Te Puna Wai advisory group member Kara Puketapu-Dentice says the papakāinga development will allow Taranaki Whānui Māori to live their ancestral land and in a community that is connected with its culture
Houses rising out of freshly-graded earth at a Lower Hutt development are destined to help Māori into home ownership.
With Māori home ownership rates below that of the national average, Taranaki Whānui are constructing the first of 89 new dwellings at the Te Puna Wai papakāinga housing project in Wainuiomata.
The homes will be for sale to members of Taranaki Whānui, a group of iwi that settled in the Wellington region in the 1830s. The mixed-model development will also contain rentals, houses available under a shared equity scheme and ones that qualify for the Government’s First Home Grant.
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