Victoria Kingi, Maori Housing Conference organising committee member, has helped launch the latest initiative to offer affordable housing to its people. Photo/file
A Maori initiative to offer affordable housing to its people has formally been launched.
Nga Potiki a Tamapahore Trust formally launched Manawa - The Heart of Papamoa, at Mangatawa Marae, Tauranga, on Saturday.
The 50 acre, residentially zoned development is on Te HouHou settlement land in Papamoa.
The project will
include 240 house sites, 30 per cent of which will be set aside for Nga Potiki hapu members. The area has been designated a Special Housing Area.
Manawa has been designed to reflect the historical and cultural connections the hapu has to the land, while providing much-needed quality, affordable housing for Nga Potiki members, as well as a commercial return on the remaining sites, which will be sold to national group builders for release to the general public.
