12 oct. 1938 - Special Maori Housing Fund - starts

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The main purpose of the 1938 Amendment Act was to extend the provisions of the principal Act by providing for 'indigent' Maori i.e. those who could not put up the security required by the 1935 Act due to landlessness or destitution.This was enacted in clause 18, which gave legislative sanction to the Special Maori Housing Fund of £100,000.

The terms under which housing assistance was provided through the S.M.H.F represented a lost opportunity because financial considerations governed the granting of loans. This policy could not deal adequately with the housing problem because of the Maori population ' s low socioeconomic status. From 1938 there were three avenues of housing assistance available to Maori through the Department the Macri Land Settlement schemes, loans under the 1935 Native Housing Act, and advances under the 1938 Amendment Act.

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

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