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Subject: Key messages, letter and FAQ's
Morena Clive
As mentioned, we will be updating the community at 10am with the attached letter.
Please see a copy of the letter and FAQ’s. We will load this on our website just after 10am.
Below are our key messages.
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Morena Helen,
I hope you’re well.
As per your discussion with Graeme, we will be updating the community at 10am with the attached
letter and FQA’s.
Below are our key messages.


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From:
Graeme Broderick
To:
Helen Leahy; Hayden Potaka
Subject:
Re: Reneging on TeiTei Drive a big step backwards says Ngati Rangi
Date:
Wednesday, 28 February 2024 4:42:36 PM
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Kia Ora Helen,
Thanks for sending this to us.
As we discussed this morning, we know the housing issues have not gone away and we are
committed to working with Council and Ngati Rangi to identify other options to address
this need.
Nga mihi
Graeme
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From: Helen Leahy <[email address]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2024 2:20:12 PM
To: Graeme Broderick <[email address]>; Hayden Potaka
<[email address]>
Subject: Reneging on TeiTei Drive a big step backwards says Ngāti Rangi
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Reneging on TeiTei Drive a big step backwards says Ngāti Rangi
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The decision by Kainga Ora and Ruapehu District Council to withdraw from the TeiTei Drive
development is a major set-back for our local community says Ngāti Rangi Pou Ārahi,
Helen Leahy.
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“It is a basic human right to live in adequate housing.   We have too many families across
our region in dire housing need; in emergency housing; couch-surfing, living in sheds;
families forced to live together in over-crowded conditions.
“Ngāti Rangi has set a vision for its people to vibrantly exist in 1000 years.   The concept of
a 100 day plan to address decades of state neglect is shortsighted in comparison.   We
know that housing directly relates to all aspects of wellbeing for a whānau.
The Council’s own portal, Pūwhenua ki Ruapehu, describes some of the complexity of the
local housing market.   The portal states the quality of housing in Raetihi was, in many
cases, thought to be poor with substandard insulation and heating; while in Ohakune,
“There are houses on the market but they aren’t affordable. In the past three years
it’s changed.  Almost 70% of our houses are absentee owners. If we didn’t have
them we’d be dead because they pay the rates. But for the locals, because there’s
pressure from the tourists, the price goes up. So affordability is a problem, not for
some people, but for the real people. The first home buyers, the residents”.


As a result of the poor state of housing, our most vulnerable, our babies and our elderly,
are over-represented in hospitalisation rates in the region.   Respiratory illness and
infectious disease thrives in homes that are not healthy to live in.
“Asthma is huge. Mainly children.  Because the homes aren’t healthy. They’re not
insulated properly. But it’s well known that in this region asthma is one of the
highest, in the Waimarino area”.

“Nga Waihua o Paerangi is aware of over thirty local whānau that are in dire need of safe,
warm and healthy homes.   The announcement today, axing the project to build 44 new
houses in our region, is a major setback for Ngāti Rangi and the wider community.
“This decision, along with the rushed legislative passage to quash Te Aka Whai Ora – an
agency that has supported Ngāti Rangi with opportunities to directly support our
community (Whiria Nga Hua) – is devastating.  We reflect on the hundreds of hours spent in
community engagement, in design and development meetings, in cultural and
environmental planning, in working together with our whānau to respond to their
aspirations.   We will be writing to respective Ministers to let them know of the adverse
impacts that their 100 Day Plan is already having within our community”
“In order to see the change we need, we are dedicated to growing and nurturing the
potential of our uri and our communities to vibrantly exist 1000 years from now.  That
doesn’t stop, no matter what else is going on”.
NGĀTI RANGI PRINCIPLES
Ko te Kāhui Maunga te mātāpuna o te ora
We understand that the Kāhui Maunga is the source of our origin and well-being of Ngāti Rangi
 
Me karioi te noho
We understand that we, as Ngāti Rangi, are here forever
 
Kia mana ai ngā kōrero tuku iho
We understand that the teachings of our tupuna are upheld
 
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Ko te anga whakamua ki āpōpō
We understand that decisions must be future focused
Background
TeiTei Drive was a project to build 44 homes in a mixed housing
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 development, which includes
14 homes for workers to rent long-term, 15 affordable homes and 15 public homes.
Ruapehu District Council partnered with Kāinga Ora and Ngāti Rangi to enable the development
of residentially-zoned vacant land at Teitei Drive in Ohakune.
 
Media Spokesperson:

Chairperson, Te Tōtarahoe o Paerangi
Whetu Moataane; ph 9(2)(a)
 
 
Helen Leahy

Pou Ārahi / Chief Executive
 Ngā Waihua o Paerangi Trust
(formerly Ngāti Rangi Trust)                      Phone: 9(2)(a)


Te Pae Tata
43a Ruapehu Rd
PO BOX 195                                                  Email: [email address]
Ohakune 4625                                              Web: www.ngatirangi.com                           
 
KĀKĀ TE WHARE TOKA O PAERANGI KĀKĀ HOKI KO AU

I am the eternal flame of the House of Stone of Paerangi
 
  
 
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