Abstract
The purpose of this evaluation is to determine whether the Healthy Homes Initiative (HHI) has improved health and social outcomes for participating families, and if it offers value for money.
The aim of the HHI is to increase the number of children living in warm, dry and healthy homes and to reduce avoidable hospitalisations and ill health due to housing-related conditions. The HHI was established in 2013 and currently covers 11 regions in the North island. The HHI is currently being rolled out to the remainder of the country.
Initially, the programme targeted low-income families with children at risk of rheumatic fever, but the breadth of the programme was expanded in 2016 to focus on warm, dry and healthy housing for low-income whānau with 0- to 5-year-old children and pregnant people.
The analysis detailed in this report looks at a three-year follow-up period for the referred whānau after the HHI referral and after all interventions have been completed.