Healthy Homes Guarantee Act 2017
Act of Parliament in New Zealand
The Healthy Homes Guarantee Act is an Act of Parliament in New Zealand which sets minimum standards for rental housing including heating and insulation. It passed its third reading on 30 November 2017 and received royal assent on 4 December 2017.
Legislative history
This law will require landlords to guarantee that any new tenancy from 1 July 2019 must be either properly insulated or contain a heating source able to make the home warm and dry. All tenancies must meet the new standards by 1 July 2024. The exact requirements are not in the bill, but will be set by the Government before 2019. Grants of up to $2000 will be available for eligible landlords to upgrade their stock. Under the previous law rentals were only required to be insulated – by the same date in 2019 – if it was practicable, with 100,000 homes excluded from the requirement. This law enables the Government to set standards for rental housing quality. The Healthy Homes standards will cover heating, insulation, ventilation, draught stopping, drainage and moisture. Many landlords will already meet these standards and will not have to change anything.
“Healthy Homes Guarantee Act 2017” enters the record as act of Parliament in New Zealand. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Healthy, Homes and Guarantee can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Healthy Homes Guarantee Act 2017” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Healthy, Homes and Guarantee provides the most credible route into that argument.
The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 11, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q48803567. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2017, 2019, 2024 and 2000.
Official terminology may obscure informal participation, dissent or communities documented only indirectly. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.
- Event chronology
- Institutional context
- Locating named record creators
Contemporary correspondence, government or organizational records, oral histories and cited historical scholarship.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Healthy Homes Guarantee Act 2017”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow Healthy Homes Guarantee Act 2017 primary sources, Healthy Homes Guarantee Act 2017 archive and Healthy research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Healthy Homes Guarantee Act 2017”?
- What chronology connects this entry to wider political or social change?
- Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
Search terms from this dossier
This entry incorporates text from “Healthy Homes Guarantee Act 2017” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.