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Kōrero: Investment

Naenae state housing

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Naenae state housing

Even before the war had ended the state began to invest in housing to cope with the return of the men from overseas and to cater for the expected baby boom. These houses in Naenae in the Hutt Valley are being built in October 1944 as a large state housing project that involved the construction of some 1,100 houses and a community centre.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, John Dobrée Pascoe Collection (PAColl-0783)

Reference: 1/4-001179; F

by John Dobrée Pascoe

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Brent Layton, Investment – Post-war investment, 1940 to 1980, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/24118/naenae-state-housing (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Brent Layton, i tāngia i te 3 March 2010.