What’s a new state house really like?

PHOTO: JASON DORDAY/HOMED – As with all the new houses commissioned by Tāmaki Rengeration Company, Rachel’s house features a landscaped front garden that is open to the street to encourage community interaction.

Forget the traditional state house model, which has always been easy to spot. In Tāmaki, Auckland that’s fast disappearing, along with the name.

Today, it’s called social housing, and the state-owned houses are mixed in with privately owned properties, making it impossible to tell which is a social house and which is in private ownership.

And that’s a deliberate move by Tāmaki Regeneration Company (TRC) to remove the stigma traditionally attached to social housing.

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