He Taupua Fund
            
                Last updated: 22 May 2025
            
            He Taupua funds projects that strengthen Māori organisations’ ability to deliver kaupapa Māori housing on their whenua. 
On this page you will find information about the types of projects that are funded through He Taupua, the requirements for organisations applying for this funding, and a list of the projects currently funded through He Taupua.
We are no longer accepting applications for this fund. 
What is funded
The types of projects that may be funded through He Taupua include:
- preparation of a housing strategy, business case or feasibility study to support a housing development
- strengthening internal capability through training or resources, to prepare an organisation to deliver housing supply
- project management, facilitation or co-ordination to support a housing supply initiative
- undertaking a whānau needs assessment to determine housing demand.
Who can apply
Organisations applying for funding through He Taupua must:
- be an iwi, hapū or Māori entity.
- demonstrate strength in kaupapa Māori approaches or service delivery models that:  
- engage and work collaboratively to meet the housing needs within their local Māori community
- develop and deliver options and solutions ranging from renting through to home ownership for whānau Māori
- are connected to viable opportunities to build on land (either Māori freehold land or general titled land) owned by a Māori entity
- provide support to improve the housing situation of whānau Māori who are homeless or dealing with housing insecurity.
 
Projects funded through He Taupua
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                    Te Tai TokerauProvider Project Description Funding Amount Aupōuri, Ngāti Kahu, Te Rarawa Trust Funding provided to support the Awanui Housing Project to construct 32 dwellings in Awanui, Far North District. $40,000 He Korowai Trust Funding provided for support to attend to homelessness and housing insecurity due to COVID-19. $200,000 He Puna Marama Charitable Trust Funding provided to establish a Housing One Stop Shop (HOSS) service for whānau Māori residing in Whangarei and surrounding district. $150,000 He Puna Marama Charitable Trust Funding provided to undertake a development plan and feasibility assessment to deliver 12-15 homes in Hikurangi. $85,635 Kāingamaha Trustee Limited Funding provided for the first stage of Te Mataora project for land surveying and site investigative work. $183,005 Ngāti Hine Health Trust Board Funding provided for bespoke housing solutions with data and insights being gathered to understand the housing needs and aspirations across the rohe. $120,000 Ngāti Hine Health Trust Board Funding provided to develop and implement a joined-up Te Tai Tokerau Iwi-Māori Housing Strategy with a priority focus to increase the pace and scale of fit for purpose housing supply in Te Tai Tokerau. $250,000 Ngāti Whatua Runanga Funding provided to deliver data survey design and analysis, a housing strategy, business plan, and investment strategy. $115,000 Te Pūtahi-Nui-o-Rehua Trust Funding provided to strengthen internal capabilities and deliver housing supply and project management support for their housing initiative. $80,000 Te Pūtahi-Nui-o-Rehua Trust Funding provided for a Project Manager to coordinate and develop organisational infrastructure, focusing on housing, trades, and mātauranga Māori. $110,000 Te Rūnanga o Whaingaroa Funding provided to implement an integrated framework Through a panel of technical experts with a suite of skills to assist and provide support faced by iwi and Māori organisations working across the housing continuum and in housing development. This includes providing technical advice and support to iwi and Māori organisations across Te Tai Tokerau. $400,000 Te Roroa Development Trust Funding provided to deliver housing solutions for whānau and hapū across the housing continuum including Papakāinga. $90,000 The Proprietors of Matauri X Incorporation Funding provided to assist with strategic planning, and operational support. $165,000 Waima Topu B Trust Funding provided to strengthen internal capability and capacity to help implement two housing developments with 35 new houses. $100,000 
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                    Tāmaki MakaurauProvider Project Description Funding Amount Kāhui Tū Kaha Limited Funding provided for support to attend to homelessness and housing insecurity due to COVID-19. $200,000 Kāhui Tū Kaha Limited Funding provided to establish a kaupapa Māori Social Housing training programme focused on improving Kaupapa Māori homelessness services. $127,000 Makaurau Marae Māori Trust Funding provided to undertake feasibility studies for the rohe of Ngāti Te Ahiwaru and whānau within the Ihumaatao Papakāinga. $316,250 Makaurau Marae Māori Trust Funding provided to increase capacity to progress initiatives to house whānau specifically in Moerewa and Kaikohe. $208,000 Ngāti Tamaoho Settlement Trust Funding provided to complete a Whānau Housing Needs Assessment and Housing Strategy to progress four housing developments for Ngāti Tamaoho whānau. $60,000 Ngā Maunga Whakahii o Kaipara Custodian Trustee Limited Funding provided to help enable housing pathways that meet the needs and aspirations of whānau and develop a full strategic plan. $95,000 Ngāi Tai Ki Tāmaki Limited Funding provided to establish a base-line analysis of housing needs and aspirations for Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki iwi. $202,000 Te Whānau O Waipareira Trust South Auckland Funding provided to support a focus on short-term housing needs and developing a medium to long-term housing strategy. $175,000 
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                    Hauraki WaikatoProvider Project Description Funding Amount Kirikiriroa Family Services Trust Funding provided to increase capability and capacity to deliver the ‘Kāinga Rua’ programme at the residential papakāinga and understand the effectiveness of Kāinga Rua to build Kāinga Ora (well whānau). $200,000 Matawhaanui Trust Funding provided for support to attend to homelessness and housing insecurity due to COVID-19. $100,000 Ngaati Korokii-Kahukura Trust Funding provided to build internal capability to undertake a housing needs assessment of 20 whānau living at Poohara Marae Papakaainga and support two whānau who are homeless into warm, safe, and affordable housing. $97,750 Ngāti Maru Limited Funding provided to increase internal capability to deliver housing by completing a Whānau Housing Needs Assessment and preparation of project master planning. $100,000 Ngāti Tamaterā Treaty Settlement Trust Funding provided to support a Whānau Housing Needs Assessment and Housing Strategy with a focus on quality and affordable home ownership on their whenua. $60,000 Raukawa Settlement Trust Limited Funding provided to conduct a draft scope of works to develop an Iwi-Led collective housing programme. $130,000 Te Rūnanga o Kirikiriroa Funding provided to assist with developing the Korowai Manaaki Housing Strategy and develop a Progressive Home Ownership Toolkit for Māori providers. $161,800 Te Whāriki Manawahine o Hauraki Incorporated Funding provided to strengthen internal capabilities to develop housing solutions for wāhine and their whānau including developing a housing strategy. $255,000 Waikato-Tainui Te Whakakitenga o Waikato Incorporated Funding provided for Te Kaarearea Project to provide property valuations and wrap around support for 15 whānau as part of the Te Kaarearea Iwi Housing Development in Hamilton East. $10,000 
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                    WaiarikiProvider Project Description Funding Amount Kaitimako N Trust Funding provided to support a Housing Strategy Business Case including a Whanau Housing Needs Assessment and Masterplan that informs a proposed Papakāinga development of 60 homes across Tauranga and Western Bay of Plenty District. $105,000 Ko Te Tuara Totara of Fordlands Incorporated Funding provided to develop a housing strategy to create healthy, affordable, and stable housing solutions for whānau. $207,275 Kōkōhinau Papakāinga Trust Funding provided to assist with property management support for their papakāinga, and to deliver governance training and governance structure review. $57,984 Manawa Community Housing Trust Funding provided to complete technical feasibility to support the development of a leasehold Progressive Home Ownership product. $32,000 Matekuare Whānau Trust Funding provided to help build internal capability to address homelessness within Te Matekuare community including report writing on the Tawhitiwhiti Papakāinga Te Whaiti development including report writing on the Tawhitiwhiti Papakāinga Te Whaiti development. $120,000 Ngāti Tūrangitukua Charitable Trust Funding provided to investigate the feasibility of building up to 40 houses for hapū and whānau on land owned by their subsidiary Waipapa Whenua Limited. $138,000 Te Taumata o Ngāti Whakaue Iho Ake Trust Funding provided for support to attend to homelessness and housing insecurity due to COVID-19. $100,000 Te Taumata o Ngāti Whakaue Iho Ake Trust Funding provided to prepare the necessary documentation to obtain Community Housing Provider status including preparing a business case. $150,000 Te Tuinga Whānau Support Services Trust Funding provided to increase capability to deliver the Te Moemoea Programme to support whānau who require immediate accommodation (emergency, transitional, Kāinga Ora/Community Housing Provider (CHP) rentals) and those who want to purchase their own homes. $155,000 The Proprietors of Mangatawa Funding provided to undertake a Whānau Housing Needs Assessment. $122,720 Tūwharetoa Settlement Trust Funding provided to develop and implementation plan for three pilot programmes under the Tūwharetoa Kāinga Strategy. $150,000 Visions of a Helping Hand Support to attend to homelessness and housing insecurity due to COVID-19. $100,000 WERA Aotearoa Charitable Trust Funding provided to progress aspirations to build, buy and manage 100 whare in Rotorua and 90 in Tauranga in response to homelessness. $156,800 
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                    Ikaroa RāwhitiProvider Project Description Funding Amount Te Tahua Trust Funding provided to develop a housing strategy and feasibility studies for housing solutions with Rangitāne o Tamaki nui-ā-Rua marae. $80,000 Hiki ki te Rangi Limited Partnership Funding provided to complete a masterplan concept for housing adjacent to Waiputu Marae in Hastings. $110,000 The Proprietors of Pakowhai Funding provided to undertake a Whānau Housing Assessment and Feasibility study to build 15 whare at Muriwai. $97,750 Toitū Tairāwhiti Housing Limited Funding provided to support the delivery of a centre of excellence and support communities with high needs across the Tairāwhiti rohe, $500,000 K3 Development Limited Partnership Funding provided to help build internal capability to support the 'Whakatū Whare - Building Homes' project including architectural design and undertake research on Māori housing aspirations. $150,000 Te Taiwhenua o Te Whanganui ā Orotū Funding provided to build capability to support the Ahuriri Housing Strategy for whānau, marae, hapū trusts and incorporations through Te Whanganui ā Orotū. $200,000 
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                    Te Tai HauāuruProvider Project Description Funding Amount Ka Uruora Funding provided to support the delivery of up to 172 affordable rentals across five regions and increase Māori housing supply by providing financial support to iwi entities, enabling them to develop housing projects. $2,643,250 Ngaurukehu A10 Section 3 and other blocks Incorporated Funding provided to advance the aspiration of Ngaurukehu Inc to provide affordable housing on Māori land connecting marae and local environments with the community of Aromoho. $100,000 Te Ranga Māro Charitable Trust Funding provided to conduct a Residential Development Plan and Feasibility Assessment for the delivery of 15 homes in Palmerston North. $113,750 Ngāti Hāua Iwi Trust Funding provided for Affordable Housing Survey, Whānau Housing Needs Assessments, Iwi Housing Strategy, Housing Kaupapa Project Manager and Whānau Housing/Papakāinga Navigator. $80,500 Te Āhuru Mōwai Limited Partnership Funding provided for the completion and delivery of a 20-year master spatial plan and build internal capabilities to manage housing developments. $132,250 Karioi Nui Trust Funding provided to secure resource consent and development of a master plan for a modern Papakāinga. $60,000 Ngāti Tū Hapū Charitable Trust Funding provided to complete resource consent applications for the supply of up to 56 houses in the township of Manaia and surrounding areas of South Taranaki including a feasibility study and business case. $260,000 Te Kīwai Matau o Ngāruahine Charitable Trust Funding provided for six hapū housing strategies for Nga hapū o Ngāwahine. $190,000 Raukawa Whānau Ora Limited Funding provided to assist in establishing a new entity and register as a Community Housing Provider and deliver on iwi housing aspirations. $60,000 Te Rūnanga o Toa Rangatira Incorporated Funding provided for a Ngati Toa Housing Strategy including an Iwi Master Plan. $168,000 Te Roopu Awhina ki Porirua Trust Funding provided to assist with addressing homelessness and overcrowding in the Porirua area through research, analysis/design and data collection. $145,000 Tūpoho Housing Limited Funding provided to increase capacity related to the vision of “self-sustainability” while developing a strategic approach to provide housing prospects for whanāu and their wellbeing. $200,000 Tūpoho Investments Limited Whānganui Funding provided to progress the Tūpoho Housing Pathway development initiatives as part of Tūpoho - Toi Tū Te Kāinga. $278,200 
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                    Te Tai TongaProvider Project Description Funding Amount Ngāti Kahungunu Ki Poneke Community Services Incorporated Funding provided for Support to attend to homelessness and housing insecurity due to COVID-19. $200,000 
 
 
 
