This web feature was written by Ben Schrader and produced by the NZ History team.
Links
- Michael Joseph Savage biography (Dictionary of New Zealand Biography)
- Fletcher Construction's photographic archive contains many interesting images spanning the company's long association with the construction of state housing in New Zealand.
- Gordon Wilson biography (Dictionary of New Zealand Biography)
- Māori housing and the government (Te Ao Hou)
Books
- Ben Schrader, We Call it Home: A History of State Housing in New Zealand, Reed, Auckland, 2005. Both the book and this web feature were commissioned by Housing New Zealand Corporation (now Kāinga Ora) to mark the 100th anniversary of state housing in New Zealand in 2005. They were authored by Ben Schrader and produced by the Ministry for Culture and Heritage.
- Gael Ferguson, Building the New Zealand Dream, Dunmore, Palmerston North, 1994
- A. D. Trlin (ed), Social welfare and New Zealand society, Wellington, Methuen, 1977
- Peter Shaw, A History of New Zealand Architecture, Hodder Moa Beckett, Auckland, 1997
