The government's Healthy Homes Initiative is being credited with improving vulnerable people's health, but those providing support says many whānau are still suffering in cold, damp houses.
The programme run by Health NZ arranges for health and sustainability organisations to assess the homes of low-income families and provide improvements like new curtains, insulation and draft stoppers.
It's helped over 142,000 people in eleven regions to date, and will expand to cover the whole country by the end of the year.
The Sustainability Trust a Wellington-based charity providing those improvements to thousands of homes, its chief executive Georgie Ferrari spoke to Susie Ferguson.
