Aerial view of Porirua Harbour encompassing several State housing suburbs
In the post war era, a shortage of housing in Wellington led to a need for increased housing development. The satellite community of Porirua, 20 km from New Zealand’s capital, Wellington was a collection of planned suburban development to meet this demand.[1] It has been described as 'a planning guinea pig’ where it would follow similar ideas and direction to the British New towns movement.[2]: 59 Between the 1940s and 1970s it was planned and developed for 70,000 people.[3] In the late 1950s and 1960s it would transform from a village to city.[4] The Department of housing and construction and in particular when it was under the First Labour Government had a major role in its development. A large number of families, many of them migrants, flooded into Porirua’ into mostly State houses.[5] By 1977, 78% of Porirua was State housing and it was the country's largest single concentration of public dwellings,[1] (this dwindled to 41% in 2012).[6] The population has increased from 5000 people in 1950 to 21000 in 1966[1] and 52,700 in 2012.[6] The four main state-planned and housing estate suburbs of Porirua are Titahi Bay, Porirua East, Cannons Creek, and Waitangirua.
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^ abPorirua City Council (2012). Porirua Social Welbeing Report 2012 (Report). Porirua City Council. Retrieved 4 May 2013.
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