Residents' Assessment of a New Zealand Public-Housing Scheme
- 1 December 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Environment and Behavior
- Vol. 9 (4) , 573-624
- https://doi.org/10.1177/001391657794008
Abstract
This article centres on the reactions of residents to a New Zealand public housing city. It found, in contrast with both popular opinion and the findings of much overseas (notably American) research, that residents responded to their dwelling and residential environment in a largely positive way—a reaction determined by the provision of mainly single-family housing, contact with neighbours and the localization of friends and kin. Dissatisfaction was greatest among residents of dwellings with densities greater than single-family housing and among "pool" housing residents: government employees living in dwellings specially set aside for them.Keywords
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