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GoodMeasure Homes

GoodMeasure Homes

GoodMeasure Homes helps measure the impact of housing – and make every investment count. Designed for housing providers and investors, this tool quantifies social value, strengthens investment cases, and provides insights to optimise resources and maximise impact.

GoodMeasure Homes
GoodMeasure Homes

Measurement across the housing spectrum.

GoodMeasure Homes applicable to a range of different housing types including Emergency, Transitional and Social Housing and various rental/ownership models.

Baseline, forecast and progress measurements

GoodMeasure Homes can be used at various stages of your housing journey; be it forecasting, measuring an existing model or remeasuring after you've implemented change.

Guiding $25+ million in housing investment

More than just reporting, GoodMeasure Homes provides clear, actionable recommendations to optimise funding, refine programs, and maximise impact.

GoodMeasure Homes: Demonstrating the social return

GoodMeasure Homes helps housing providers and funders clearly understand the impact of their work. Whether it’s social housing, emergency accommodation, or affordable rentals, it measures the long-term social value of providing safe, stable housing.

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Using robust data and evidence, GoodMeasure Homes calculates the social return on investment (SROI), giving organisations the insights they need to improve services, secure funding, and showcase their impact. Housing is more than just shelter – it’s a foundation for better health, education, and wellbeing. True impact is often overlooked or hard to quantify. GoodMeasure Homes changes that by offering a reliable, accessible way to measure and communicate the real difference housing makes in people’s lives.

Good features

SROI calculation

Estimate long term social impact in dollar terms, offering a standardised way to assess value across programs and sectors.

Evidence-based insights

Leverages peer-reviewed research, government data, and frontline provider insights for robust, data-driven analysis.

Adaptable methodology

A standardised framework that’s tailored to the unique context of each organisation, ensuring relevance.

Comprehensive reporting

Delivers clear, detailed reports that outline program effectiveness and highlight opportunities for improvement.

Comparative benchmarking

Uses consistent metrics to track progress over time and assess or review performance.

Actionable recommendations

Provides practical guidance todevelop data collection, optimise funding, and improve service delivery.

Transparent analysis

Ensures that impact reporting is objective and credible, building trust among stakeholders.

GoodMeasure Homes: Demonstrating the social return

GoodMeasure Homes is more than just an impact measurement tool – it’s a standardised way of thinking about social investment, helping investors, funders and organisations make smarter decisions, scale what works, and drive meaningful change.

Confident investment decisions

Empowers funders and decision makers with clear data to ensure every dollar is allocated where it can make the greatest impact.

Unified impact metrics

Creates a shared fact base for the social sector, aligning funders and service providers on what works and where to improve.

Faster, informed decision-making

Offers timely insights that enable real-time adjustments and improvements, reducing reliance on lengthy evaluations.

Enhanced credibility

Strengthens stakeholder trust by providing evidence-backed, transparent reporting that validates social impact.

Continuous improvement

Facilitates ongoing benchmarking and strategy refinement, ensuring that social investments are always driving meaningful change.

Sectors using GoodMeasure Homes

Whether you’re delivering services, allocating resources, or shaping policy, our data-driven insights empower your decision-making. By partnering with organisations across sectors, we transform social investment into measurable progress that elevates communities.

Charities

We help charities measure impact, refine strategies, and secure funding.

Government & corporates

We help agencies and businesses drive measurable social impact.

Iwi & kaupapa Māori

We align investments with Māori communities' aspirations and support providers.

How it works

Step 1
Understanding your programme

We begin by collaborating closely with you to grasp your services, understand who you support, and clarify the outcomes you aim to achieve. This step captures the full story behind your programme’s impact.

Step 2
Applying the best available evidence

Using global research, government data, and real-world insights, we evaluate the potential and scale of impact. This ensures our estimates are credible, independent, and firmly rooted in evidence.

Step 3
Collecting and analysing your data

Using the ImpactPortal we easily capture all the essential programme data – such as participant numbers, demographics, and service delivery details – ensuring our analysis is tailored, accurate, and truly reflective of your impact on the ground.

Step 4
Measuring social value in dollar terms

This is the magic sauce - we calculate the Social Return on Investment (SROI) to estimate the lifetime social value generated by your programme, helping you see clear, tangible benefits relative to costs.

Step 5
Delivering actionable insights

Our findings are presented in a clear, practical impact dashboard and report that highlights your strengths, opportunities, and comparisons with similar services. These insights empower you to refine your approach, effectively communicate your value, and secure funding.

Our satisfied customers

"Once we received the GoodMeasure report, it helped us establish systems to effectively track our day-to-day interactions with regular programs. GoodMeasure has truly supported us and pushed us to a new level of professionalism, giving us exposure we didn’t have before."

Frank (and Tina) Hicks
GooC

"Data isn't just something we collect to show how we've spent money; it actually informs the changes we make to our services and helps us identify when shifts are needed based on what the data is telling us."

Val Carter
Home & Family Charitable Trust

"GoodMeasure has helped us gain a better understanding of what truly constitutes good practice – the kind of practice that leads to results that make a real difference."

Jono Campbell
Te Ora Hou

"One of the major steps we took was going back four years and interviewing participants who had completed the program at that time."

Dale Bailey
Springboard Trust

"As agencies serving the community, we have a responsibility to do our best. I believe the GoodMeasure process helps us meet that responsibility by challenging and encouraging us, ensuring that whatever we offer is the best possible service to the community we serve."

Murray Edridge
Wellington City Mission

"When we reviewed the insights from GoodMeasure, we started focusing more on the end model – bringing our team closer together and ensuring our navigators connect the dots for everyone who supports us."

Tom Irvine
Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei

"We’re currently rolling out a new CRM system. While coordinating projects, we identified some gaps in the information we weren’t collecting, which could be really useful."

Ula Letele
Grace Foundation

Frequently asked

questions

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GoodMeasure Homes evaluates the social and economic benefits of stable housing, using SROI analysis to quantify the impact on a varitiy of outcomes including health, employment, education, and wellbeing.

It’s designed for a variety of housing types, including social housing, emergency accommodation, affordable rentals, and other housing-related initiatives and programmes seeking to demonstrate their long-term impact.

It is widely understood that stable housing drives wider social benefits, but its impact is often undervalued or hard to measure. GoodMeasure Homes provides credible, transparent data, measure and insights to highlight the value of housing initiativies.

Providers use GoodMeasure Homes insights to improve their housing services, operational efficiencies and support further investment conversations by demonstrating the long-term impact of their housing interventions.

GMHomes follows the same process and shares the same core aims as GoodMeasure, but its methodology has been specifically developed for the housing sector. It is based on an extensive review of New Zealand and internationally comparable housing research.

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