Urban development must not only address capacity issues and environmental challenges, but it must also be meaningful and effective in how it responds to diverse cultural and contextual sensitivities at scale. New dwellings, neighbourhoods and connecting transport infrastructure must support the creation of home spaces in
which individuals, their families and communities can flourish and where they can become willing, long-term stewards.
This paper focuses on housing and urban development in the context of Aotearoa New Zealand (Aotearoa). We respond to recent articulations of, and responses to,
the growing housing and urban development challenges in Aotearoa – particularly the newly released Government Policy Statement on Housing and Urban Development or GPS-HUD (HUD, 2021a). Our supportive critique of how these challenges are being addressed draws from relevant work already undertaken or underway by the authorship team, including from three government-funded multi-year and multi-scale community-based research programmes.

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