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CHA Hub Podcast
by CHA Hub
Providing continual knowledge, deep insights, wisdom and resources to help create safe, affordable, long-term homes for everyone in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Episodes
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#67 - Hema Sridhar: Koi Tū - The courage to choose
In this episode, we speak with Hema Sridhar, Deputy Director of Koi Tū, the Centre for Informed Futures, and former Chief Science Advisor to the New Zealand Ministry of Defence. Hema comes to housing not as a housing expert but as someone whose career has spanned science, technology and public...
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#78 - Tamatha Paul: Green Party - The courage to choose
In this episode, we speak with Tamatha Paul, the Green Party’s spokesperson for housing, the Member of Parliament for Wellington Central, and a former Wellington city councillor who wrote her Master’s dissertation on the provision of public housing. Tamatha does something you might not expect…
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#77 - Yves Dejaeghere - The courage to choose
In this episode, we speak with Yves Dejaeghere, executive director of the Federation for Innovation in Democracy in Europe, and one of the architects of what may be the world's most advanced permanent citizens' council, in the German-speaking region of Belgium. Yves is a realist rather than an...
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#76 - Kay Saville-Smith - The courage to choose
In this episode, we speak with Dr Kay Saville-Smith, Research Director of CRESA, the Centre for Research, Evaluation and Social Assessment, and one of New Zealand’s leading housing-systems researchers. Kay studies not housing problems but the housing system itself – how its players relate, how…
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#75 - Jane Wrightson - The courage to choose
In this episode, we speak with Jane Wrightson, the Retirement Commissioner, as she concludes her six-year term as the country’s independent voice on retirement income. Jane arrives at the edition’s themes from a completely different direction – retirement – and lands squarely on many of the same...
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#74 - Jane Suiter - The courage to choose
In this episode, we speak with Professor Jane Suiter of Dublin City University, one of the architects of Ireland's citizens' assembly model and a recipient of the Brown Democracy Medal for that work. Ireland used citizens' assemblies to work through some of its most difficult and divisive...
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#73 - David Farrell - The courage to choose
In this episode, we speak with Professor David Farrell of University College Dublin, a political scientist and one of the principal architects of Ireland’s citizens’ assembly model, whose work on deliberative democracy has had influence far beyond Ireland. David is our comparative expert, whose...
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#72 - Rob Campbell - The courage to choose
In this episode, we speak with Rob Campbell – company director, economic historian, and former chair of some of New Zealand’s largest companies and public organisations – who thinks about housing from further outside the policy mainstream than almost anyone else we spoke to. Rob’s organising idea...
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#71 - Qiulae Wong: The Opportunity Party (TOP) - The courage to choose
In this episode, we speak with Qiulae Wong – known to many simply as Q – the leader of The Opportunity Party. Q sits deliberately between left and right, and makes the case that lasting housing reform needs exactly that kind of stabilising force in the middle. We talk about her party's central...
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#70 - Max Rashbrooke - The courage to choose
In this episode, we speak with Max Rashbrooke, a journalist and author based at Victoria University of Wellington and research director at the IDEA think tank, whose work sits where economic inequality and democracy meet. Max brings one of the edition's hardest numbers: on his calculation, if New...
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#70 - Madeline Newman - The courage to choose
In this episode, we speak with Madeline Newman, Executive Director of AI Forum New Zealand, whose job is to help the country adopt artificial intelligence well. Madeline gives us the insider's view of what artificial intelligence could actually do for housing – and what it shouldn't. We talk…
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#69 - Len Cook - The courage to choose
In this episode, we speak with Len Cook, former Government Statistician of both New Zealand and the United Kingdom, with more than fifty years spent in official statistics. Few people understand what a country can and cannot know about itself better than Len – and his message is an urgent one. We...
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#68 - Kieran McAnulty - The courage to choose
In this episode, we speak with Kieran McAnulty, Labour's spokesperson for housing and a former Minister for Local Government and Emergency Management. This is, in many ways, the other side of our conversation with Chris Bishop. Kieran agrees that housing needs durable, cross-party commitment that...
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#66 - Gareth Hughes - The courage to choose
In this episode, we speak with Gareth Hughes – a former Member of Parliament who now leads the Wellbeing Economy Alliance Aotearoa, connecting ideas here in New Zealand to a global network rethinking how economies are designed. Gareth places housing inside the biggest possible frame. His guiding...
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#65 - David Hanna - The courage to choose
In this episode, we speak with David Hanna, director of Wesley Community Action, whose work is grounded in a Methodist social-justice tradition and years of community-led development. David is, by design, the most grounded voice in this edition – where others bring models and statistics, he…
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#64 - Danny Osborne - The courage to choose
In this episode, we speak with Associate Professor Danny Osborne, a political psychologist at the University of Auckland and a researcher with the long-running New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study. If our other guests describe what needs to change, Danny helps explain why change is so hard to…
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#63 - Chris Bishop - The courage to choose
In this episode, we speak with Chris Bishop, Minister for Housing, Infrastructure and RMA Reform, and one of the central figures shaping the direction of housing policy in New Zealand today. Our conversation moves away from the day-to-day of announcements and into the machinery of how big…
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#60 - Bernard Hickey - The courage to choose - Housing as Infrastructure
In this episode, we speak with economist and journalist Bernard Hickey, publisher of The Kākā and one of the most persistent voices in New Zealand public life on housing and the economy. Bernard has spent years arguing that New Zealand is, in effect, a housing market with an economy tacked on –…
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#61 - Charles Waldegrave - The courage to choose
In this episode, we speak with Charles Waldegrave, a social researcher who has spent decades researching poverty, housing and social policy from the Family Centre in Wellington. Charles brings the longest memory in this edition. He takes us back to a postwar era – now largely forgotten – when…
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#62 - Cameron Luxton - The courage to choose
In this episode, we speak with Cameron Luxton, an ACT member of Parliament and, by his own account, the only licensed builder in the House. Cameron is the only voice in this series speaking from inside the building trade, and it gives him a completely different vantage point from the economists…
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#79 - Padraic Kenna - The courage to choose
In this episode, we speak with Professor Padraic Kenna of the University of Galway, a specialist in European housing law and housing rights who has spent decades studying how different countries protect – or dismantle – their housing systems. Padraic is our legal authority: the guest who can...
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#59 - Trust the Collective Intelligence - How Porirua reimagined the citizens’ assembly
In this episode, we talk with the group behind Porirua’s groundbreaking climate assembly — the first climate assembly anywhere in the world designed around Te Tiriti o Waitangi. We talk about why they challenged the conventional citizens’ assembly model, bringing mana whenua, community and...
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#58 - Mahera Maihi - Mā Te Huruhuru: - With adorned feathers, the bird will fly - kaupapa Māori youth housing and the power of coming home
WARNING: This episode contains references to domestic violence and topics around drug and substance abuse. In this episode, we meet Mahera Maihi, founder and CEO of Mā Te Huruhuru, the first kaupapa Māori youth transitional housing provider in Aotearoa, and the Kiwibank Local Hero of the Year…
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#57 - Aaron Hendry - Homelessness - Our three duties
In this episode, we meet Aaron Hendry, co-founder of Kickback and the driving force behind The Front Door — a single point of entry for rangatahi experiencing homelessness on K Road in Tāmaki Makaurau. Aaron came to this work as a young youth worker in West Auckland, sitting with a…
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#57 - Rami Alrudaini - Housing First - Collective impact, lived experience and the infrastructure that makes Housing First work at scale to tackle homelessness.
In this episode, we meet Rami Alrudaini, Programme Manager at Housing First Auckland — the backbone organisation coordinating collective impact across Housing First providers in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland Rami's family fled war in Iraq before he was born. Social justice was instilled in him before…
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#56 - CHA Story - Alpha - How losing everything became the making of something.
In this episode, we meet Alpha, a Peer Support Worker on the Outreach Team at Visionwest in West Auckland. Alpha came to the role the way the best peer workers do — not through a qualification, but through experience. After the loss of his parents, his family lost more than the people they loved....
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#55 - Jeremy Nicholls - Hidden in plain sight - Homelessness
In this episode, we meet Jeremy Nicholls, Supportive Housing Outreach Leader at Visionwest in West Auckland. Jeremy did not come to outreach work through a housing career. He came through a Bible college, a taxi, and twenty-five years running a homeless shelter in Chicago's Uptown neighbourhood.…
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#54 - Jill Hawkey - Housing First and the missing houses
In this episode, we meet Jill Hawkey, Executive Director of the Christchurch Methodist Mission, where she has spent twelve years growing a service spanning early childhood to end-of-life care. Jill trained as a social worker, spent twenty-five years in international aid and development, and...
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#53 - Ali Hamlin-Paenga - A Māori-led response to homelessness
In this episode, we meet Ali Hamlin-Paenga, CEO of Te Matapihi, the national Māori housing sector peak body. Ali has been part of Te Matapihi in three different roles, from board member to deputy chair to CEO, and she brings to the work a framework that is, in its foundations, entirely different...
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#52 - Bianca Johanson - Youth homelessness in New Zealand
In this episode, we meet Bianca Johanson — Chief Executive of Manaaki Rangatahi, the national collective working to prevent and end youth homelessness in Aotearoa. Bianca is a social worker of nearly thirty years, and someone for whom, by the statistics, homelessness should have been a personal...
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#51 - Linda Murphy - Homelessness is a health issue
In this episode, we meet Linda Murphy, Health and Social Services Coordinator at the Calder Centre, part of the Auckland City Mission. Linda has been a nurse, a librarian, an Anglican minister, and a Human Rights Commission employee. In 2003 she slipped on a wet pavement on Wesley Street and was...
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#50 - Kelsi Cox - The possibility of healing - What happens when people finally have the support to flourish."
In this episode, we meet Kelsi Cox, Supportive Housing Manager at HomeGround — the Auckland City Mission's $100 million integrated housing and health facility in central Auckland. Kelsi came to Aotearoa from British Columbia on a Rotary scholarship in 2013 and never left. Her background spans...
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#49 - Murray Edridge - Unshakably good - turning philosophy into government policy.
In this episode, we meet Murray Edridge, Wellington City Missioner and the ordained Anglican priest — Baptist by whakapapa, he'll tell you — who has spent eight years walking alongside some of Wellington's most vulnerable people. Murray came to the Mission almost by accident, turning down the…
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#48 - Nicola Fleming - The recovery runs later.
In this episode, we meet Nicola Fleming, Housing First Programme Manager at Christchurch Methodist Mission. Nicola came to this work through 20 years at Kāinga Ora — from the West Coast to Aranui in Christchurch, and then through the Canterbury earthquakes, going door to door in the red zone.…
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#47 - Professor Nevil Pierse - Everybody counts.
In this episode, we meet Professor Nevil Pierse, Research Professor at the University of Otago Wellington, where he has spent more than two decades building New Zealand's evidence base on homelessness. Nevil is a statistician by inclination — and the first to say that the most important data…
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#46 - Professor Peter Mackie - Prevention by design.
In this episode, we meet Professor Peter Mackie, Executive Director of the Institute of Global Homelessness. Peter didn't set out to reshape how countries respond to homelessness. As a professor at Cardiff University, he led the research that informed the Housing (Wales) Act 2014 — the…
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#45 - Bruce Ford - Homelessness at the edge of the world.
In this episode, we meet Bruce Ford — community advocate, former Southland District Councillor, and the driving force behind the Stewart Island Seniors Cottage Trust. Bruce has lived on Stewart Island since 1968. He knows everyone. And for years he has watched proud, independent people — the...
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#44 - Brook Turner - From move-on to move-in
In this episode, we meet Brook Turner, Director of Partnerships at Visionwest in West Auckland. Brook didn't come to homelessness through a housing career. He came through youth development — and through the ten young people his team found living under the Henderson Bridge in the first week of...
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#43 - Millie Lambess - Providing the space
In this episode, we meet Millie Lambess, City Safety and Harm Prevention Team Lead at Wellington City Council. Millie came to this work through community — through a belief in high-trust models, flexible funding, and the idea that the best responses start from what people actually need, not what...
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#42 - Sehai Orgad - When everyone is in the room
In this episode, we meet Sehai Orgad, Senior Responsible Officer for City Safety at Wellington City Council. Sehai came to this work through the community — and through a conviction that homelessness and city safety are two different problems that require two different responses. The person...
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#41 Vic Crockford - The wave that is coming
In this episode, we meet Vic Crockford — co-lead of the Coalition to End Women's Homelessness, and former Chief Executive of Community Housing Aotearoa. Vic came to this work through her grandmother — a single mother who fled a violent relationship, secured state housing in Hastings, and in doing...
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#40 Dr Kathie Irwin: The machine that built this
In this episode, we meet Dr Kathie Irwin — scholar, senior public servant, and Kaihautū of the Coalition to End Women's Homelessness in Aotearoa. Kathie is a third-generation Māori feminist educator, and she brings to this conversation decades of hard-won analysis about why wāhine Māori arrive at...
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#39 - Natalia Cleland: The Practice of Outreach
In this episode, we meet Natalia Cleland, Chief Executive of Downtown Community Ministry — A Wellington provider of assertive outreach for people sleeping rough. Natalia came to DCM eight years ago as a social worker, drawn by a job ad that said: if you're ready to roll up your sleeves and do...
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#38 - CHA Story: Adam - HomeGround
In this episode, we meet Adam, a tenant and peer support worker at HomeGround, Auckland City Mission's supportive housing development in central Auckland. For much of his life, stable housing felt out of reach. During Covid, Adam was placed in emergency accommodation. When a place at HomeGround...
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#37 - Jade Kake: Colonisation, whenua, and the path home
In this episode, we meet Jade Kake, architect, housing policy advocate, and writer based in Whangarei. Jade trained in architecture and spent time working with a community housing provider in Australia before returning to Aotearoa. A conversation with family drew her into Te Matapihi and the…
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#36 - Helen Robinson - Te Tāpui Atawhai — Auckland City Mission.
Helen grew up in Wellington, the third of five children, shaped by a family and faith community where caring for others was simply how life was lived. She studied law at Victoria University, spent 15 years at Challenge 2000, worked for Caritas internationally, and arrived at the Auckland City...
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#35 - Meet the team: Amanda Kelly
In this episode, we meet Amanda Kelly, Policy and Practice Manager at Community Housing Aotearoa. Amanda grew up in a small village in the west of Ireland, where community and care for others were simply part of daily life. After studying health promotion at the National University of Ireland,...
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#34 - Amanda Kelly- The conversation starts here: An introduction to the findings, themes and voices shaping Aotearoa's homelessness response
In this episode, we speak with Amanda Kelly. Policy and Practice Manager at Community Housing Aotearoa. Amanda brings a background spanning local government, community development, and health promotion—including direct experience supporting Auckland Council's operational response to homelessness....
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#33 - Katie Dalton- How Wales made homelessness prevention a legal duty — and what a decade of results shows for Aotearoa
In this episode, we speak with Katie Dalton, Director of Cymorth Cymru — the charity representing homelessness and housing support services across Wales. With a career spanning student politics, mental health policy, and housing advocacy, Katie has been at the centre of Wales's homelessness...
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#32 - Sara Ott - Learning from a sister city - Why developers became partners, not obstacles
As sister cities, Aspen and Queenstown share more than scenic beauty; they're both wrestling with what happens when free-market real estate prices workers out of resort towns. Sara Ott, Aspen's city manager at the time of this interview, brings hard-won lessons from a community where the average...
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