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Māori homeownership rates are significantly less than non-Māori, and the housing crisis is making it harder and harder to address the imbalance.
Taxpayers will be picking up the bill to help Māori out of poverty if the Government doesn’t take “radical” action to properly address the Māori housing crisis, an iwi leader has warned. Home-ownership has become increasingly unattainable for many but Māori are faring the worst, Māori Party co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer said. Tangata whenua are now in danger of becoming trapped on a treadmill of poverty, she said. Māori home-ownership rates have been falling nationally since 1999, with the latest Census showing it had plummeted to 26 per cent, compared with 41 per cent for non-Māori.
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