Episode Playlist
Homefullness - Jul 13 2025 ep16 - Real Estate In Service to Regeneration( 0:15:44)
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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.
Published: 17/07/2025 5:22:08 p.m.
Homefullness - Jun 15 2025 ep15 - Bridging the Gap to Resource Communities( 0:48:33)
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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.
Published: 24/06/2025 11:12:06 a.m.
Homefullness - Apr 20 2025 ep13 - Sophie, from Land Information New Zealand( 0:50:54)
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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.
Published: 20/04/2025 4:00:00 p.m.
Homefullness - Feb 23 2025 ep10 - Sharing with Friends Housing Model( 0:48:50)
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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/
Published: 23/02/2025 5:00:00 p.m.
Homefullness - Feb 02 2025 ep09 - Homeshare in Nelson Tasman( 0:52:16)
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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.
Published: 2/02/2025 5:00:00 p.m.