Homefullness
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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.
All Episodes
Homefullness - Mar 23 2025 ep12 - Building a non-residential community of purpose and belonging
Published: 23/3/2025 5:00 p.m.
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.
Homefullness - Mar 09 2025 ep11 - Gentle Density: Backyard housing development that leaves room for nature & connection
Published: 09/3/2025 5:00 p.m.
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.
Homefullness - Feb 23 2025 ep10 - Sharing with Friends Housing Model
Published: 23/2/2025 5:00 p.m.
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/
Homefullness - Feb 02 2025 ep09 - Homeshare in Nelson Tasman
Published: 02/2/2025 5:00 p.m.
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.
Homefullness - Jan 19 2025 ep08 - How councils can get more money to create new housing & reduce rates
Published: 19/1/2025 4:00 p.m.
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.
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