apr 5, 1929 - Directly or indirectly, state financing 50% of all houses built

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State sponsored housing schemes, however, only benefited that section of the population with reasonable incomes , not unskilled workers or the poor. 2 There was no l egal prohibition preventi ng the Maori population from taking advantage of state housing assistance. But because the majority of the Maori did not earn high incomes, and lived in communities separated from the Pakeha population, it is doubtful whether many Maori benefited from the state housing finance available, and their housing conditions confirm this. The exceptions were settlers on the Maori Land Settlement schemes.

Source: Source: Krivan, M. (1990). The Department of Maori Affairs housing programme, 1935-1967. (Master of Arts dissertation, Massey University).

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