Housing Insecurity in Aotearoa's Older People
New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services (NZCCSS)
Publisher: New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services
Sector evidence
Sector body
2026-10-09
Next review: 2027-04-09
New Zealand
Medium confidence
verified
Codex research — bundled report, NZCCSS resource page and MSD OIA response
Evidence boundary: Edition One is dated November 2024; an exact report publication day is not established. Findings are attributed to a sector analysis of historical operational data, not independently recomputed national prevalence. Its privacy rounding, suppressed-cell substitutions, lead-applicant scope and single-period design limit inference. The original June 2026 capture is retained; sources were checked on 9 October 2026.
Short Answer
R P Mackay's November 2024 analysis of MSD housing-support data obtained through Official Information Act requests.
Key Points
- •The main snapshot is March 2024; Public Housing Register time-to-house and placement information covers January–March 2024.
- •The report uses a 55-year threshold to include populations who experience age-related disadvantage earlier; it is not solely an analysis of people aged 65 and over.
- •The data describe lead applicants or recipients. Older adults elsewhere in a household can be missed, so this is not a count of every older person experiencing housing insecurity.
- •The report finds longer support durations for older recipients and regional and ethnic differences. Time-to-house comparisons concern people housed during the quarter, not elapsed waits for everyone still on the register.
- •Operational data were privacy-rounded and some small values suppressed. The author substituted random values of 1–3 for suppressed cells, limiting small-cohort precision.
- •This single-period analysis cannot establish a trend. It also does not measure all people unable to apply or the full extent of unmet housing need.
Full Summary & Notes
R P Mackay's November 2024 analysis of MSD housing-support data obtained through Official Information Act requests. It examines older lead applicants' use of emergency housing and the Public Housing Register, highlighting regional and ethnic differences and limits in measuring unmet need.
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