Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Housing in Aotearoa

The University of Auckland Waipapa Taumata Rau's annual Substantive Equality Month is focusing on the housing crisis in Aotearoa this year. Join us for an event focused on the interaction between Te Tiriti o Waitangi and housing. Jacqueline Paul, a current doctoral candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and researcher with the Generation Kāinga project at the Pūrangakura Māori Research Centre will speak about her MPhil research, completed at the University of Cambridge. Jacqueline's thesis was titled "He rautaki whakatauria whare o Te Tiriti o Waitangi: Treaty-anchored housing strategies". Max Harris will act as a discussant. Jacqueline and Max co-authored the paper "Transformative Housing Policy for Aotearoa New Zealand: A Briefing Note on Addressing the Housing Crisis" in 2020, together with Jenny McArthur, Jordan King and Scott Figenshow. Jacqueline and Max also co-authored the paper "A Ministry of Green Works for Aotearoa New Zealand: An Ambitious Approach to Housing, Infrastructure, and Climate Change" in 2021.

Speaker: Jackie Paul (Ngā Puhi, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Heretaunga) and Max Harris
Time: 6pm - 7.30pm
Venue: Stone Lecture Theatre (801-316), Level Three, Building 801, Auckland Law School, 9 Eden Crescent

Jacqueline Paul

Jacqueline Paul (Ngā Puhi, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Heretaunga) is a Māori Ph.D. student in urban studies and planning at MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She holds a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from the Unitec Institute of Technology, New Zealand, and an MPhil in Planning, Growth and Regeneration from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Jacqueline is currently a researcher for Pūrangakura Māori Research Centre in Aotearoa New Zealand and has been involved with the National Science Challenge – building better homes towns and cities Māori housing research over the past 5 years.

Max Harris

Max Harris is a barrister and door tenant at Thorndon Chambers. He has a BCL and DPhil from the University of Oxford, and a BA/LLB(Hons) from the University of Auckland.

Max has worked as a campaigner and policy researcher, and has a longstanding interest in and commitment to progressive politics. He splits his time between legal research and work as a campaigner for ActionStation. He has authored policy reports on housing policy and a Ministry of Green Works, worked as an economic policy advisor to Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell in the UK Parliament, and was a consultant to the United Nations Development Programme in New York.