Visionwest Waka Whakakitenga’s Housing First Chronic programme aims to respond to homelessness by making it rare, brief and non-recurring. Housing First is designed to deliver a pathway to exit homelessness and to provide a system of support that is needed to sustain housing.
In February 2025, Visionwest wanted to better understand their impact and learn how they could do even more good. They partnered with ImpactLab to estimate the social value of their programme. Social value is an estimate of the impact a programme achieves for the people it supports over their lifetime, measured in dollar terms. It is calculated using academic evidence, government population data and Visionwest’s programme data.
This report summarises what we learnt together, looking at data for whānau who were supported through the programme between 1 March 2023 to 29 February 2024. Excluded from the scope of this measurement are other housing programmes delivered by Visionwest (e.g., Rapid Rehousing).
GoodMeasure Homes has been developed from the core tool, GoodMeasure, with input from sector experts and relevant research to demonstrate the social value generated through housing people adequately.
