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Homefullness

Change-making conversations on housing for people and planet. Enabling more affordable, connected, and regenerative places to live.

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60:22

Home as relationship with community, land, soil,...

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2026/01/27

In this episode, host Zola Rose interviews Zola Ndimande, a Zulu woman from KwaZulu Natal South Africa about her return to her ancestral land to build her own home using traditional earth building methods, and integrating into that community-focused way of living in relationship with people and relationship with the elements.The discussion covers a range of topics such as traditional housing construction methods, indigenous community living, tribal land stewardship and right to occupy vs ownership,

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35:21

From Straw to Structure: Re-creating housing in a...

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2025/12/22

Zola Rose interviews Magda Garbarczyk from Fine Line Architecture about the 'Straw Lines' project, a modular housing system using low carbon materials like straw and timber to address New Zealand's housing crisis, climate change, unhealthy and expensive building materials, and waste from the agricultural sector.The project aims to reconnect traditional building methods with modern practices, promote community involvement, and reduce environmental impact. Magda, alongside collaborator Min Hall,

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49:03

Intergenerational Community and Affordability:...

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2025/12/09

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. They talk about the cooperative's guiding principles and their commitment to maintaining affordability for future generations by capping rents and

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42:01

Recipes for Baking Belonging into Housing: Zola’s...

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2025/10/27

Show host Zola shares her personal experience with housing instability through a creative reading of her unpublished article titled 'Homefullness: Recipes for Baking, Belonging, Connection, and Resilience into Housing Futures.'Zola details her struggles with feelings of homelessness due to the challenge of finding available, affordable accommodation and precarious short-term house and room rentals, despite her professional background and stable income. She highlights the systemic issues in housing

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53:18

Rethinking Rural Development: How Alignment of...

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2025/09/25

In this episode 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

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55:20

Empowering Women to End Homelessness

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2025/08/21

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

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51:21

Building Resilient Futures: Insights on Ecovillages

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2025/08/06

In this episode, host Zola interviews Zahra Lightway about her tour of eco villages across Australia, India, and Europe.The conversation explore what made the ecovillages she visited successful, mainly a robust governance system, income-earning programmes and opportunities, a shared worldview (values and beliefs), and mission-driven activities. They cover sociocracy as a governance model, the difference between eco estates and eco villages, and innovative financial models like Les Pas Sages for

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50:34

Hemp Homes: A home-grown building material that saves...

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2025/07/21

In this episode of the Homefulness Show, host Zola Rose engages with Jo, the chair of the Hemp Builders Association in New Zealand, and Barbara, a resident of a hempcrete home, to explore the benefits and potential of hempcrete as a sustainable building material.Jo discusses hempcrete's ability to sequester carbon, its role in mitigating the housing crisis, and its use in community-driven, regenerative housing models. Barbara shares her personal experience of building and living in a hempcrete

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46:34

Real Estate In Service to Regeneration: Home as a...

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2025/06/20

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. Zola shares her personal journey of finding a suitable site for her tiny home, emphasizing the importance of shifting from an ownership mindset to a stewardship approach and creating a regenerative checklist for assessing potential

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47:20

Bridging the gap to resource communities to lead...

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2025/05/26

In this episode, host Zola Rose discusses what creates successful community-led housing (CLH) with guest Thomas Moore, a senior lecturer in Geography and Planning at the University of Liverpool.They explore 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

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50:30

Connecting with Nature and Community: Lessons from...

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2025/05/07

In this special episode of the Homefullness Show, host Zola Rose sits down for an engaging interview with her daughter Oriah, a law student at Otago University in New Zealand.They explore Oriah's unique upbringing in an off-grid homestead in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. Topics include their unconventional home setup with indoor and outdoor 'loos,' the transition from a suburban lifestyle to a self-sufficient homestead, their meaningful rituals and traditions, the "free learning" style of education,

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50:09

Housing Crisis Unlocked: The Legal Path to...

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2025/03/28

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

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48:29

Building a non-residential community of purpose and...

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2025/02/24

In the latest episode of the Homefullness Show, I interview Trypp West, the founder of an urban community called Springfed in Boulder, Colorado (USA). He 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.The

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36:52

Gentle Density: Backyard housing development that...

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2025/01/24

Gentle density is a term in Australia for infill housing development in urban areas, to create more housing within existing neighbourhoods, also known as incremental development in the U.S. 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

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44:49

Sharing with Friends: An Innovative Co-Housing Model...

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2024/12/19

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

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41:23

HomeShare for Her: Facilitating relationships for...

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2024/12/05

In our latest Homefullness episode, I interview Chloe Howorth on the HomeShare for Her program located in the Nelson-Tasman region of Aotearoa 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

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47:36

How councils can get more money to create new housing...

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2024/11/22

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,

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46:22

Increasing diversity of housing options--a survey of...

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2024/10/18

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

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57:08

Women catalysing affordable housing and neighbourhood...

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2024/09/24

The fastest growing demographic who are vulnerable to housing insecurity and unaffordable housing is older women. Many of these women have been valuable contributing members of their communities and working professionally yet find themselves in housing precariousness later in life due to a range of systemic societal and economic factors. The Housing Older Women Movement believes these women should have a say and be able to participate in creating the kind of housing that meets their needs and

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01:11:26

A collaborative Local Government approach for housing...

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2024/08/05

In this interview with Aksel Bech, we are tackling housing unaffordability and the levers within legislation, policy, and at the local government level that are available to be able to create better outcomes for housing.I reached out to Aksel because he and I care deeply about addressing this housing unaffordability problem in Aotearoa NZ and he is leading the way on housing reform in his local area through The Housing Czar, a housing advocacy initiative in the Waikato.

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