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Housing in New Zealand

Housing in New Zealand
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Housing in New Zealand
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NZ On Screen
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This 1946 film surveys New Zealand housing: from settler huts to Ernest Plischke’s modernist flats. Architect William Page bemoans sun-spurning Victorian slums with their unneeded “elaboration”. But more fretful than fretwork is a housing crisis that sees 26,000 families needing homes, with owning or renting out of reach of many. Michael Savage’s pioneering (but war-stalled) state housing scheme and newly-planned suburbs offer hope. Fed by wood and cement, NZ can build again with brio: “For a...

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Date created
1946
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http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/housing-in-new-zealand-1946
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national film unit / nfu / housing / state house / savage / architecture / design / georgian / timber / wood / busby / waitangi / treaty house / william page / wm page / mission house / mj savage / michael joseph savage / slums / urbanisation / urban / housing crisis / holloway road / fretwork / suburbia / prefabrication / prefab / plischke / architect / dixon street flats / dixon st flats / naenae / trentham / cement / 1940s / forties / settlers / the elms / mission house tauranga / alice maxwell / clay huts / castles / false fronts / wooden scrolls / ironwork / ornamentation / prosperity / state advances loan / housing shortage / department of housing / 40s / state advances corporation / returned servicemen / war production / supply issues / community / crowding / shopping areas / standard of living / communities

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