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Change-making conversations on housing for people and planet. Enabling more affordable, connected, and regenerative places to live.
Aotearoa’s housing system is plagued with problems of unaffordability, of insufficient homes for the population, lack of diversity in housing typology, sprawl, low-quality unhealthy homes, housing insecurity, and more... A regenerative and collaborative approach is needed.
There are innovative solutions, but they are not well known to the public and even to most housing role players. This show aims to fill the void in knowledge, highlight what is working well, and empower people with access to information and to a network of change makers.
Aotearoa’s housing system is plagued with problems of unaffordability, of insufficient homes for the population, lack of diversity in housing typology, sprawl, low-quality unhealthy homes, housing insecurity, and more... A regenerative and collaborative approach is needed.
There are innovative solutions, but they are not well known to the public and even to most housing role players. This show aims to fill the void in knowledge, highlight what is working well, and empower people with access to information and to a network of change makers.
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Change-making conversations on housing for people and planet. Enabling more affordable, connected, and regenerative places to live.
Change-making conversations on housing for people and planet. Enabling more affordable, connected, and regenerative places to live.
Change-making conversations on housing for people and planet. Enabling more affordable, connected, and regenerative places to live.
Host Zola Rose interviews Trystan and Stephanie from the Peterborough Housing Cooperative to discuss this housing model that is a rarity in Aotearoa NZ (a more common model in Europe).
They explore how the cooperative structure, owned by a Trust, keeps rents affordable and fosters a close-knit community of families, young professionals, and the elderly.
Change-making conversations on housing for people and planet. Enabling more affordable, connected, and regenerative places to live.
Zola interviews Steven Liaros to discuss the importance and the roadmap to create a network of Circular Economy Villages (CEV).
These villages aim to integrate private housing development with public infrastructure to alleviate stress on local governments and create sustainable, regenerative rural and peri-urban communities.
Steven delves into the critical barriers that traditional eco-village projects face, such as local area planning policies, financing, and necessary infrastructure.
The CEV model addresses these issues by incorporating principles of the circular economy, emphasizing reduced waste and enhanced efficiency in energy and water usage, and fostering climate resilience.
The episode highlights the benefits of this model for rural areas and its role in enabling local governments to collaborate efficiently.
The discussion also covers the strategic planning and financial strategies that are key to making these villages a reality.
In this episode of the Homefullness Show, Dionne Payne, founder of Women for Homes, discusses her ambitious mission to inspire 1 million women to invest $5,000 each to end homelessness by 2030. Dionne shares her journey from a scientist to a real estate developer and impact investor.
She highlights her notable projects, such as the development of affordable housing projects in Australia, and her experiences in especially creating social cohesion within communities. She also discusses innovative housing solutions and sustainability models like the One Planet Living framework.
Dionne provides insights into financial empowerment, including the importance of community and diverse investment strategies, and offers her Amazon bestseller book, 'Ethical Property Investing', for free download to interested listeners.
Visit WomenForHomes.com and connect with Dionne on LinkedIn. Tune in for a conversation filled with actionable steps towards creating more inclusive and affordable housing solutions.
Change-making conversations on housing for people and planet. Enabling more affordable, connected, and regenerative places to live.
Change-making conversations on housing for people and planet. Enabling more affordable, connected, and regenerative places to live.
Change-making conversations on housing for people and planet. Enabling more affordable, connected, and regenerative places to live. In this episode Zola explores the concept of regenerative real estate with Neal Collins, founder of the Regenerative Real Estate Podcast and Choose Latitude. The discussion delves into transformative housing models that prioritize sustainability, community engagement, and affordability.
Change-making conversations on housing for people and planet. In this episode, Enabling more affordable, connected, and regenerative places to live. Exploring the concept of Enabling Hubs, a practical form of advocacy infrastructure, and why these Hubs are so important for overcoming the challenges communities face in achieving affordable and sustainable housing for themselves. Tom explains how these hubs are funded and function and about the training programmes to build capability for community-led housing advocates.
Change-making conversations on housing for people and planet. Enabling more affordable, connected, and regenerative places to live.
Change-making conversations on housing for people and planet. Enabling more affordable, connected, and regenerative places to live.
Sophie, a public works advisor at Land Information New Zealand, discusses her PhD in law, focusing on achieving housing affordability through collective housing, and cooperative housing in particular.
The conversation covers various aspects, including the lack of research and public awareness on collective housing in New Zealand, her personal experiences with different housing systems in Europe, and the role of local and central governments in addressing the housing crisis.
Sophie emphasizes the need for legal reforms to support cooperative housing structures and discusses her findings on the limitations of the unit title structure for collective housing and how finance and funding is blocked without the legislation for cooperative housing.
The discussion also touches on potential influences from European and Australian models, and the importance of incorporating the “right to housing” into domestic law. The interview ends with Sophie’s aspirations for housing in New Zealand and recommendations for further reading and resources on cooperative housing.
Tryyp West describes the founding of Springfed, a community that started as his thesis project and has continued for the past three years. The community operates on a non-residential model with the meeting place being his rented farmhouse where they hold fortnightly potlucks and Sunday gardening days to foster social bonds and teach self-sufficiency.
In this episode, I interview Mark and Lynda Utting on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland Australia. They share about their way of developing housing in their backyard to give a great place to live to the future residents.
They are able to do this because their area has been rezoned to medium density, meaning they've been given permission to build up to nine units in their backyard.
The Sharing with Friends housing model was born out of a burning desire for housing justice for single older women who are in the "missing middle"--who do not qualify for social housing but also can't afford market rental or to buy their own home and who are living on the edge of housing insecurity.
The unique co-housing model provides an affordable, secure, and connected way of living where five women, who self-select, share a specifically designed house which offers privacy and automony while also a sense of community, having spaces for shared meals and activities.
I interview Susan Davies and Adrienne Irvine, founders of the Sharing with Friends Foundation about how they formed the foundation and fund the development, how the programme gives women agency by through workshops that empowers them to design how they will live together, and how the model can be replicated throughout Australia and other countries.
https://www.sharingwithfriends.org/
https://www.commonground.net.nz/
The program addresses the lack of affordable housing and the lack of available housing for single women. Because in our region, according to a Stuff article in April 2023, it says “low wages and expensive housing make the Nelson Tasman area unaffordable” with our housing being the third worst in the country, with some people spending over 50% of their income on housing.
But the other thing that the programme does is it mitigates the problems that can come up when people share a living space together.
If you're frustrated by the amount of rates that you pay and the increasing rates that many councils are doing, you are not alone. Many people complain, “councils, all they care about is money.” And yet, they have increasing expenses & responsibilities to pay for with less income--a gap that's been widening over decades. The amount of income that they're able to generate through rates is not covering all the things they're responsible for. So, what is the solution?
Well, we've got Nick Clark, with the NZ Initiative, on to explain to us how the new policy he's proposing called Revenue Share for Housing could work. He says it could clear most council debt and create new income streams for local councils. The benefit is that there'll be more money to be able to support new housing construction and the infrastructure needed for that and rates hopefully won't continue to increase.
So how does this work? Well, we're going to explain about it in this episode, but the basics are that: A portion of the GST that's collected by central government from local councils on new builds would be given back to the councils.
This is really a game changer, so listen in to hear about this policy that could increase the amount of income your counsel is able to generate to create new housing in your area and that might even stabilize the rates.
In this interview with Greer O'Donnell of The Housing Innovation Society (THIS) and The Urban Advisory (TUA), I speak with her about a growing demographic in housing--the missing middle--as well the increase in people who wish to have more say in the kinds of housing that they want to create and how they want to live in that housing. The New Zealand Housing Survey was created to be able to capture this information.
We speak about the kinds of housing that we could have and how you, the listener, by taking part in the survey, can help define the diversity of the choices in housing and neighbourhoods that we can have and need in Aotearoa NZ.
We also encourage you to join The Housing Innovation Society as a member and come participate in the CoHoHui which will be held 15-17 April 2025 in Ōtautahi (Christchurch).
Links referred to in this episode:
https://www.nzhousingsurvey.co.nz/
https://www.theurbanadvisory.com/
https://thehousinginnovationsociety.com/
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