Disabled Person-Led Monitoring of the UNCRPD: Housing (2020)

Project Details

Status:completed
Date:2020
Contact:To learn more about this study, please contact:
- Dr Robbie Francis Watene
  Kairakahau Matua Whaikaha
  Disabled Research Lead
  
  @ rfrancis@donaldbeasley.org.nz
  
  0800 878 839

About this Project

The Donald Beasley Institute conducts disabled person-led monitoring of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) on behalf of the New Zealand Disabled People's Organisations Coalition (DPO Coalition).

The UNCRPD is an international agreement that sets out what the New Zealand Government must do to make sure disabled people have the same human rights as everybody else. It is important to understand if, and how well, this is happening.

Since 2018, we have undertaken four monitoring cycles on disabled people's access to: housing, housing from the perspectives of family and whānau of disabled people, health and wellbeing, and disability supports and services.

In this monitoring cycle, we talked to disabled people about their experiences of housing in Aotearoa New Zealand.

This research documented disabled people’s experiences of the right to housing and identified areas where improvements are needed.

This research provides valuable insights into disabled people’s access to housing, which were used to report to the United Nations. The findings will also be critical to future policy and planning for housing in Aotearoa New Zealand

The DBI's monitoring research is led entirely by disabled people. From the project lead and monitors, to transcribers and participants, this project embodies the disability rights slogan 'nothing about us, without us' at every stage of the research process.