Public Housing in an Urban Setting: an inclusive wellbeing framework

Abstract

We outline a wellbeing framework to underpin analysis within a major research programme in which a key component is to examine effects of public housing on tenant wellbeing. The wellbeing framework is designed to be inclusive by drawing on multiple international approaches to wellbeing (especially the capabilities and subjective wellbeing approaches) and on te ao Māori and Pacific wellbeing frameworks. Key features of the framework are that it: emphasises both individual and whänau wellbeing; enables wellbeing judgements to be made by the tenants themselves; allows for co-determination of factors affecting wellbeing; and allows for interpersonal factors to affect wellbeing. We describe surveys of public housing tenants being conducted within the research programme and outline how they can be analysed with reference to the inclusive wellbeing framework.