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Further information - state housing in New Zealand
This web feature was written by Ben Schrader and produced by the NZHistory.net.nz team. Links Michael Joseph Savage biography (Dictionary of New Zealand Biography) Fletcher Construction's photographic archive contains many interesting images spanning the company's long association with the construction of state housing in New Zealand. Housing New Zealand's housing strategy Christchurch City Library's brief history of state housing in Canterbury Gordon Wilson biography (Dictionary of New Zealand Biography) Gordon Wilson biography (1966 Encyclopedia)
Film clip: Hutt housing - a new home
Still shots and description Of the thousand houses here, seven have just been finished and one of the seven is the Paterson's new home. For the first time in her life the baby has a sleeping porch of her own and Diane is going to put her dolls to sleep in their own room. To have every bit of sunshine and plenty of flat land for playing is going to make a world of difference to this small girl and the thousands just like her who will soon be living here. With all the heavy furniture inside the shift is as good as over and to call this home is a proud moment for Diane and her mother.
First state house opened in Miramar
Most of the Labour Cabinet helped the McGregor family move into 12 Fife Lane in Miramar, Wellington. The government's aim was to rid New Zealand of sub-standard housing by building 5000 new homes a year.
Sound clip: teenagers and state housing
To tackle the housing crisis in the late 1930s the Labour government created the Department of Housing Construction. With the help of Fletcher Construction, 3445 state houses were constructed in three years.
Sound clip: State House Kid album
The cover of the 1985 record State House Kid by Last Man Down shows singer/songwriter Ross Mullins, in an unkempt 1950s school uniform, standing in front of burnt-out state house.
Sound clip: debate on market rent policy
Hear a debate on the Kim Hill show about National's market rent policy.
Sound clip: John A. Lee - state housing
John A. Lee speaking at opening of the 100,000th state house in 1978
State houses on Coromandel Street
Virtually indistinguishable from private dwellings built in the early 20th century, these two-storey semi-detached houses in Coromandel Street, Newtown, Wellington, were constructed as part of the Liberal government's workers' dwellings scheme.
State house, Hamilton
The state houses of the 1930s and 40s remain a distinctive feature of most towns and cities, immediately recognisable by their cottage-style windows and hipped, tiled roofs
Dixon Street flats, Wellington
For a short time, the state experimented with high-rise flats for the single and elderly.
Early Workers' Dwelling - State Housing in New Zealand
Children at the gate of one of the first workers' dwellings, 13 Patrick Street, Petone.
Railway houses in Ngaio
Railway houses in Tarikaka Street, Ngaio, Wellington, in the 1980s
Houses for rural Maori
A house built for a Maori farmer in Reureu (Wanganui District), financed from a state loan advanced for Maori land development in the 1930s
Hamilton state houses
A row of single-unit and semi-detached state houses in Hayes Paddock, Hamilton. Victoria Birkinshaw, 2004
State house architectural drawings
Elevation of a typical state house built under the first Labour government in the 1930s and 40s
State housing in Otara
A street of state houses in Otara, South Auckland
Family inside a state house
This 1940s publicity photo emphasised the living room, with its fireplace, radio and comfortable chairs, as the focus for state-house family life. State Advances Group State Housing in New Zealand Wellington, 1947
Film clip: government architect, state housing
Film clip: Gordon Wilson (1940s Government Architect) Still shots and description The house plans prepared allow for much variation in design while conforming to generous standards of space and equipment. These [points to a plan] are typical state house plans: two bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen and a sun room. This [points to another plan] has three bedrooms: the living room, the kitchen, the meal space with large windows facing into the sun.
State houses in Porirua East
Multi-unit housing constructed in the 1950s and 60s was criticised for its use of low-cost materials and uniformity of design. This image of Porirua East was used in Housing Corporation publicity material in the late 1970s as an example to avoid in future housing schemes.
Maori housing street plan
In this plan for the Maori housing settlement at Waiwhetu, Lower Hutt (c. 1947), houses are clustered around a marae, with the Waiwhetu Stream in the foreground. The complex subsequently built closely resembled this plan.

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