This web feature was written by Ben Schrader and produced by the NZHistory.net.nz 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.
- Christchurch City Library's brief history of state housing in Canterbury
- Gordon Wilson biography (Dictionary of New Zealand Biography)
- Gordon Wilson biography (1966 Encyclopedia)
- Te Ao Hou articles on maori housing and the government
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 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
