Projects & publications
Below is a selection of some of our current and past projects and publications. For our more recent public good research and publications please see our Good Homes site.
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Selected Publications
| Date | Title | Project Name | Funder | Author |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20160916 | Downsizing and the Housing Stock - Realities for Older People | 1141 | MBIE | Dr K. Saville-Smith, Dr M. Rehm, Dr B. James and Prof L. Murphy |
| 20160218 | Realising Housing Equity for Older Home Owners: Myths, realities, practicalities` Laurence Murphy, Kay Saville-Smith, Michael Rehm, & Bev James paper presented to Australasian Housing Researchers Conference, Melbourne, February 2017. | 1141 | MBIE | Laurence Murphy, Kay Saville-Smith, Michael Rehm, & Bev James |
| 20160915 | Making Good Housing Choices: Information Needs and Access - presentation Dr Bev James to the Conference of NZ Association of Gerontology 15-17 Sept 2016 | 1141 | MBIE | Dr Bev James |
| 20140926 | Strengthening the Financial Well-being of Older Adults | 1141 | MBIE | Dr Rob Wiener |
| 20130521 | `Who Cares About Water?`, BUILD, 135:53-54 | 1146 | Building Energy End-use Study | Kay Saville-Smith |
| 20060701 | Working Paper 1 - Disability Prevalence Forecasting & Housing | 1163 | Centre for Housing Research Aotearoa New Zealand (CHRANZ) | Kay Saville Smith (CRESA) & Bev James (Public Policy and Research) |
| 20101001 | Why Site Selection Matters: Fred and Freda's Story of Loss | 1141 | Kay Saville-Smith with Fred and Freda | |
| 20140921 | Key note presentation Australian Universal Design Conference - Universal Design: Everyone, Everywhere, Every time | 1142 | Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment | Kay Saville-Smith |
| 20090915 | HomeSmart Renovations: Early Data from the Homeowner Interviews | 1159 | FRST, Fletcher Building, Waitakere City Council, Building Research, Scion and NZ Steel | Kay Saville-Smith |
| 20100615 | Getting Sustainable Neighbourhoods Presentation | 1159 | FRST, Fletcher Building, Waitakere City Council, Building Research, Scion and NZ Steel | Kay Saville-Smith |
| 20120921 | Getting Accessible Housing: Practical Approaches to Encouraging Industry take-up and Meeting Need | 1304 | Kay Saville-Smith and James Saville | |
| 20140110 | Council Planning and Policies: Positive Ageing and Planning for Adverse Natural Events | 1142 | Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment | Bev James and Kay Saville-Smith |
| 20010111 | Community-based Solutions for Sustainable Housing | 1154 | Kay Saville-Smith and David Thorns | |
| 20050928 | Community Safety Issues: Report on Phase 1 2003-2004 | 1160 | FRST | Bev James |
| 20110626 | Community Safety and Residential Movement | 1160 | FRST | Bev James |
| 20041128 | Community Attachment: Determinants, Indicators & Measures | 1160 | FRST | Bev James |
| 20080913 | Chinese Case Study | 1144 | Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment | Elsie Ho |
| 20100401 | Children's Housing Futures | 1161 | Centre for Housing Research Aotearoa New Zealand (CHRANZ) | Public Policy & Research and CRESA |
| 20110728 | Charrette Intro (ppt) | 1144 | Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment | Kay Saville-Smith |
| 20071015 | Building for Sustainable Homes in Sustainable Neighbourhoods | 1159 | FRST, Fletcher Building, Waitakere City Council, Building Research, Scion and NZ Steel | Kay Saville-Smith, Denise Bijoux, Katja Lietz |
| 20100109 | Building Energy End-Use Study (BEES): Years 1 & 2 - BRANZ Study Report 224 | 1146 | BRANZ Ltd, FRST, DBH and EECA | N. Isaacs (ed), K. Saville-Smith, R. Bishop, M. Camilleri, J. Jowett, A. Hills, D. Moore, M. Babylon, M. Donn, M. Heinrichs, H. |
| 20110901 | Building Energy End-use Study (BEES): Year 3 BRANZ Study Report 236 | 1146 | BRANZ Ltd, FRST, DBH and EECA | N. Isaacs (ed), K. Saville-Smith, M. Babylon, R. Bishop, M. Camilleri, M. Donn, D. Moore, and H. Roberti |
| 20030428 | Building Attachment in Families and Communities Affected by Transience and Residential Mobility: New Research Programmes | 1160 | FRST | Kay Saville-Smith and Bev James |
| 20120601 | BEES Interim Report : Buildings - Size, Management and Use Building Energy End-use Study (BEES): Year 5 SR227/1 | 1146 | BRANZ Ltd, FRST, DBH and EECA | Kay Saville-Smith and Ruth Fraser |
| 20090320 | Private and Community Sector Contributions to Social and Economic Research in NZ: funding, skills, value and all that | 1321 | Kay Saville-Smith | |
| 20141001 | Local Government Housing, Older Tenants and Adverse Natural Events | 1142 | Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment | Kay Saville-Smith and Ruth Fraser |
| 20140808 | Presentation to Eco Design Advisors Workshop - Real Dream Homes | 1142 | Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment | Kay Saville-Smith |
| 20140615 | Retirement Village Housing Resilience Survey | 1142 | Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment | Kay Saville-Smith and Ruth Fraser |
| 20140515 | Presentation to Te Papa Summit - Resilient Communities: Some Preliminary Learnings and Next Steps | 1142 | Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment | Kay Saville-Smith |
| 20140102 | 'Homes a financial stretch', BUILD 140, 45-46 | null | Kay Saville-Smith | |
| 20130110 | 'Staying Home', BUILD 138, 71-72 | 1142 | Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment | Kay Saville-Smith |
| 20130521 | Housing Assets: A paper for the 2013 Review of Retirement Income | 1156 | Commission for Financial Literacy and Retirement Income | Kay Saville-Smith |
| 20130201 | `Commercial Building use`, BUILD, 134:82 | 1146 | Building Energy End-use Study | Kay Saville-Smith and Ruth Fraser |
| 20120801 | `Drivers for Resource Efficiency`, BUILD, 125 | 1146 | Building Energy End-use Study | Kay Saville-Smith |
| 20120703 | Rebuilding with Different Building owner Imeratives - Insights from BEES data, BEES seminar presentation, Christchurch | 1146 | BRANZ Ltd, FRST, DBH and EECA | Kay Saville-Smith |
| 20120618 | `Putting our Energy into Good Homes, Good Neighbourhoods, Good Lives` | 1290 | Kay Saville-Smith | |
| 20120424 | Older People`s Home Repair and Maintenance: Ageing Well in Place in New Zealand, Presentation to Good Homes Repairs and maintenance | 1144 | Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment | Kay Saville-Smith |
| 20120228 | 'Designed for All Ages`, BUILD, 128:50-51 | 1144 | Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment | Kay Saville-Smith |
| 20120208 | Tools for Good Homes for Ageing in Place | 1144 | Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment | Bev James, Kay Saville-Smith and Roman Jaques |
| 20111019 | Understanding Houses - A key step to sustainability | 1319 | L. Burroughs, N. Isaacs, A. Pollard, J. Burgess, M. Camilleri, K. Saville-Smith | |
| 20110801 | Preliminary BRANZ 2010 House Condition Survey Report (2nd Edition) | 1155 | BRANZ and CRESA | N. Buckett (ed), N. Marston (ed), K. Saville-Smith, J. Jowett, and M. Jones. |
| 20110728 | Older People's Home Repairs and Maintenance: Ageing Well in Place in New Zealand - House Condition Survey 2010 (ppt) | 1144 | Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment | Kay Saville-Smith |
| 20110728 | Older People's Home Repairs and Maintenance: Ageing Well in Place in New Zealand (ppt) | 1144 | Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment | Bev James |
| 20110725 | Retirement Villages Act 2003 Monitoring Project: Residents' Perspectives | 1166 | Retirement Commission | Bev James and Kay Saville-Smith |
| 20110626 | Service Needs of Frequent Movers: Issues for Providers | 1160 | FRST | Bev James |
| 20110626 | Residential Movement, Camping Grounds and Access to Health Services | 1160 | FRST | Philippa Howden-Chapman, Chrissie Severinsen and Rebecca Osborne |
| 20110626 | Residential Movement in the Housing, Insulation and Health Study | 1160 | FRST | Helen Viggers, Philippa Howden-Chapman and Geoffrey Jones |
| 20110626 | Place Attachment in New Zealand | 1160 | FRST | Catherine Schroder |
| 20110626 | Patterns of Residential Movement | 1160 | FRST | Bev James, Kay Saville-Smith and Ruth Fraser |
| 20110626 | Pacific People in Cannons Creek/Waitangirua: Movement and Attachment | 1160 | FRST | Bev James and Margaret Southwick |
| 20110626 | Movement and Persistence: A Case Study of Southern Dunedin in Global Context | 1160 | FRST | Erik Olssen |
| 20110626 | Mobility and Education | 1160 | FRST | Jane Gilbert and Ally Bull |
| 20110626 | Mobility and Community Ties | 1160 | FRST | Phil Morrison and Catherine Schroder |
| 20110626 | Migration and the Place Community | 1160 | FRST | Phil Morrison |
| 20110626 | Youth Transition and the Local Labour market | 1160 | FRST | Phil Morrison and Elizabeth Loeber |
| 20110626 | Shifting, Circulating and Staying: Understanding Young People's Movement | 1160 | FRST | Elizabeth Plumridge and Bev James |
| 20110626 | The Movement of Children and Young People who are CYF Clients in the Four Case Study Communities | 1160 | FRST | Bev James, Ruth Fraser and Kay Saville-Smith |
| 20110626 | The Influence of Place Attachment on Plans to Move | 1160 | FRST | Phil Morrison |
| 20110626 | An Introduction to the Final Papers | 1160 | FRST | Kay Saville-Smith and Bev James |
| 20110606 | Housing and Residential Movement | 1160 | FRST | Kay Saville-Smith |
| 20110319 | Making REAL-Value: The Community Sector for a Better Housing Future (ppt) | 1309 | Kay Saville-Smith | |
| 20110318 | Low Income Incentive Package: Research & investigation | 1145 | Bay of Plenty Regional Council | K. Saville-Smith (CRESA), B. James (public Policy & Research), L. Easton (Lois Easton Consulting) and L. Burrough (BRANZ). |
| 20101119 | It's Our Future & It's Not OK | 1307 | Kay Saville-Smith | |
| 20101101 | The Determinants of Tenure & Location Choices of 20-40 year old Households in the Auckland Region | 1168 | Centre for Housing Research Aotearoa New Zealand (CHRANZ) | K. Saville-Smith (CRESA) and B. James (Public Policy and Research) on behalf of Beacon Pathways |
| 20101101 | Neighbourhood Sustainability | 1312 | Kay Saville-Smith | |
| 20100703 | Older People's Home Repairs and Maintenance: Ageing Well in Place in New Zealand | 1144 | Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment | B. James and K. Saville-Smith |
| 20100615 | HomeSmart Renovations: Householder Actions and Responses to Dwelling Performance | 1159 | Beacon Pathway Research | Kay Saville-Smith, Ruth Fraser, Nikki Buckett, Michael Camilleri |
| 20100526 | Neighbourhoods and Intensification: Measuring Sustainability (conference presentation SB 10) | 1159 | FRST, Fletcher Building, Waitakere City Council, Building Research, Scion and NZ Steel | Kay Saville-Smith |
| 20100526 | Neighbourhoods & Intensification: Measuring Sustainability - Impacts of Higher Density and Mixed USe | 1313 | Kay Saville-Smith | |
| 20100201 | Ageing Well in a New Country: Preliminary Findings of a Survey of Older Chinese in New Zealand | 1144 | Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment | Elsie Ho, Joanna Lewin and Muriaroha Muntz |
| 20091109 | Older People Repairing and Maintaining Homes (ppt) CHRANZ Forum | 1144 | Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment | Kay Saville-Smith |
| 20090915 | Valuing Sustainable Neighbourhoods | 1159 | FRST, Fletcher Building, Waitakere City Council, Building Research, Scion and NZ Steel | Kay Saville-Smith, Moira Dwyer, Julie Warren |
| 20090610 | “I Want to Have My Own Small Home”: Ageing in Place of Older Chinese Immigrants (ppt) | 1144 | Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment | Wendy Li |
| 20090415 | A National Survey of Neighbourhood Experiences and Characteristics:Opportunities for Data Use | 1159 | FRST, Fletcher Building, Waitakere City Council, Building Research, Scion and NZ Steel | Kay Saville-Smith |
| 20090101 | Older People's Housing Futures in 2050: Three Scenarios for an Ageing Society | 1165 | Kay Saville-Smith, Bev James, Julie Warren, and Andrew Coleman | |
| 20081128 | Older People's House Performance & Their Repair & Maintenance Practices: Analysis from a 2008 National Survey of Older People an | 1144 | Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment | Kay Saville-Smith, Bev James, Ruth Fraser |
| 20081031 | Access to Safe and Secure Housing for Vulnerable and At Risk Young People | 1157 | Centre for Housing Research Aotearoa New Zealand (CHRANZ) and Ministry of Youth Affairs | Kay Saville-Smith, Bev James, Julie Warren and Ruth Fraser |
| 20081015 | Neighbourhood Impacts on House Sustainability Presentation | 1159 | FRST, Fletcher Building, Waitakere City Council, Building Research, Scion and NZ Steel | Kay Saville-Smith |
| 20080828 | Understanding Older People's Home Repairs Practices: The House Condition Survey | 1144 | Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment | CRESA |
| 20080828 | Understanding Older People's Home Repairs Practices: The Home Maintenance Survey 2004 | 1144 | CRESA | |
| 20080808 | The National Survey of Older People's Home Repairs and Maintenance | 1144 | Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment | CRESA |
| 20080701 | Neighbourhoods for Life | 1314 | Kay Saville-Smith | |
| 20080628 | Ageing in Place in An In Place Housing Stock | 1144 | Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment | Kay Saville Smith |
| 20080619 | Revire of the EECA residential Net Benefit Model & Technical Manual | 1167 | EECA | Concept Consulting Group Ltd & CRESA |
| 20080615 | House Owners and Energy - Retrofit, Renovation and Getting House Performance | 1159 | Beacon Pathway Research | Kay Saville-Smith |
| 20070801 | Local Government and Affordable Housing | 1164 | Centre for Housing Research Aotearoa New Zealand (CHRANZ) | CRESA and Public Policy and Research |
| 20070515 | Neighbourhood Sustainability Presentation | 1159 | FRST, Fletcher Building, Waitakere City Council, Building Research, Scion and NZ Steel | Kay Saville-Smith |
| 20070501 | Housing and Disability: Future Proofing New Zealand’s Housing Stock for an Inclusive Society | 1163 | Centre for Housing Research Aotearoa New Zealand (CHRANZ) | Kay Saville-Smith and Ruth Fraser - Centre for Research Evaluation and Social Assessment (CRESA) / Dr Bev James - Public Policy |
| 20070101 | Working Paper 2 - International Trends in Accessible Housing for People with Disabilities | 1163 | Centre for Housing Research Aotearoa New Zealand (CHRANZ) | Margie Scotts (CRESA), Kay Saville-Smith (CRESA) and Bev James (Public Policy and Research) |
| 20060801 | Affordable Housing in Nelson, Tasman and Marlborough: Taking Action | 1158 | CHRANZ, Ministry of Economic Development and Work and Income Nelson, Marlborough, West Coast Region | Motu Project team |
| 20060401 | www.chranz.co.nz/pdfs/ntm-report-4.pdf | 1158 | CHRANZ, Ministry of Economic Development and Work and Income Nelson, Marlborough, West Coast Region | Bev James (Public Policy and Research), Kay Saville-Smith and Ruth Fraser (CRESA) |
| 20060401 | Public Perspectives on Housing and Affordability in Nelson, Tasman and Marlborough | 1158 | CHRANZ, Ministry of Economic Development and Work and Income Nelson, Marlborough, West Coast Region | Kay Saville-Smith and Ruth Fraser (CRESA) and Bev James (Public Policy and Research) |
| 20050915 | Neighbourhood Sustainability Framework: Prototype | 1159 | FRST, Fletcher Building, Waitakere City Council, Building Research, Scion and NZ Steel | Kay Saville-Smith, Katja Lietz, Denise Bijoux, Megan Howell |
| 20050228 | Youth Transition: The Influence of the Local Labour Market on Expectations | 1160 | FRST | Philip Morrison and Elisabeth Loeber |
| 20040928 | The Migration Catchments & Migration Fields of Distressed Communities | 1160 | FRST | Philip Morrison |
| 20040628 | Report 1. The Changing Population of Kawerau: 1951 to 2001 | 1146 | BRANZ Ltd, FRST, DBH and EECA | Phil Morrison |
| 20040428 | Migration Catchments, Migration Fields and Distressed Communities | 1160 | FRST | Phil Morrison |
| 20040401 | National Landlords Survey: Preliminary Analysis of the Data. | 1154 | Kay Saville-Smith and Ruth Fraser | |
| 20010112 | 102 Community Sector Organisations and Housing Service Provision | 1154 | Nina Saville-Smith | |
| 20000801 | Self-Built Housing on the Internet An International Overview of Self-Build Housing Projects and Programmes | 1154 | Kay Saville-Smith and Simon Campbell | |
| 19990701 | Overcrowded Families in New Zealand Regional Patterns | 1154 | Kay Saville-Smith and Ben Amey |