Micro-geography and public housing tenant wellbeing - Arthur Grimes, Conal Smith, Kimberley O’Sullivan,

Furthermore, understanding the contributions to wellbeing of the specific features of the house and of the neighbourhood in which the house is situated is important when making decisions with respect to future public housing developments. [...] 4 Micro-geography and public housing tenant wellbeing understanding the contributions to wellbeing of the specific features of the house and of the neighbourhood in which the house is situated is important when making decisions with respect to future public housing development. [...] Visitors refers to the respondent’s pride in their home, Home suits refers to the respondent’s view of the suitability of their home, while Area suits refers to the respondent’s view of the suitability of their neighbourhood; Appendix 2b provides the full questions (and response categories) used in the survey for each of these variables.23 Table 3 presents the distribution of each of these three v. [...] Other variables related to Area suits are a sense of belonging to one’s whānau and the number of networks that one has (though the patterns of relationship for these two variables is less obvious, and the former is not significant at the 5% level in three of the four sets of estimates). [...] We concentrate on a sample of residents in the Wellington urban area; the majority of the sample are public housing tenants; those in the sample who are private rental tenants or owner- occupiers reside in the same area as some of the public housing respondents.