Story: Māori housing – te noho whare

After the First World War Māori began to migrate from the country to the cities in search of work and a better life. Many faced discrimination from landlords and had little option other than to settle in the so-called slum districts of cities, where landlords were more open to having Māori as tenants but where the houses were often old and run-down. This shows Māori children outside a dwelling in inner-city Nelson Street, Auckland, in the late 1930s.