The CHA Hub brings together interviews, Insight Reports, case studies, podcasts and practical resources to support better housing outcomes across Aotearoa New Zealand.
Explore the latest thinking from community housing providers, iwi, local and central government, developers, investors and international experts. Discover what’s working, what isn’t, and where we can go next—together.
Insight Report · 08 Dec 2025
In our next report, we turn our focus to homelessness and housing insecurity in Aotearoa New Zealand — where we are now, how we got here, and what needs to change.
Article · 01 Dec 2025
Markets produce market outcomes, not affordable housing. Professor Laurence Murphy explains why Inclusionary Housing—proven effective internationally—must capture publicly created land value uplift to deliver homes for nurses, teachers, and police officers whilst maintaining developer profitability.
Article · 01 Dec 2025
Chris Glaudel makes the case for embedding Inclusionary Housing into New Zealand's RMA reforms, capturing property value uplift from public investments to fund affordable housing and create balanced communities across all income levels.
Article · 01 Dec 2025
Community Housing Aotearoa's eleven policy recommendations provide a comprehensive framework for implementing Inclusionary Housing in New Zealand, emphasising national legislation, perpetual affordability, mixed-tenure communities, and treating housing as essential infrastructure with stakeholder collaboration.
Article · 01 Dec 2025
Claire Dickinson explains how Britain's Section 106 delivered 140,000 affordable homes in five years through national legislation, viability frameworks, and negotiated flexibility within clear policy parameters.
Article · 30 Nov 2025
Three New Zealand planners detail how Inclusionary Housing captures development value uplift for perpetual affordable housing, challenging market-only solutions in communities where essential workers cannot afford homes.
Article · 30 Nov 2025
Wakatipu High School's principal Oded Nathan describes how Queenstown's housing crisis forces schools to manage property portfolios and approach developers for land, transforming education challenges into accommodation crises.
Video · 30 Nov 2025
Former Productivity Commission Chair Dr. Ganesh Nana discusses transforming New Zealand's economic model toward wellbeing-centred productivity, drawing on Māori concepts of kaitiakitanga and decades of experience challenging conventional growth-focused economics.
Article · 30 Nov 2025
Former Queenstown mayor Jim Boult fought for Inclusionary Zoning despite fierce opposition, creating the Secure Home model that proves affordable housing solutions work in New Zealand's most expensive markets.
Article · 30 Nov 2025
Community Land Trusts hold land perpetually to maintain affordable housing across generations. Success requires Inclusionary Zoning policies, sector collaboration, and policy frameworks addressing planning, leasehold arrangements, and the private market's dominant role in housing delivery.
Insight Report · 30 Nov 2025
In this edition we explore one of the most effective tools for delivering affordable homes — Inclusionary Housing, or Inclusionary Zoning as it is often known. Around the world, this approach has helped communities provide homes for low and moderate-income households through all economic cycles. It’s not a theory; it’s a proven, practical solution that already works here in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Podcast · 29 Nov 2025
Explore New Zealand's Karamū development—one of the first to embed inclusionary zoning at scale. Annie Wilson from Kāinga Maha shares insights on mixing affordable, public, and market housing to create equitable communities and sustainable solutions.
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Video · 30 Nov 2025
Former Productivity Commission Chair Dr. Ganesh Nana discusses transforming New Zealand's economic model toward wellbeing-centred productivity, drawing on Māori concepts of kaitiakitanga and decades of experience challenging conventional growth-focused economics.
Video · 24 Oct 2025
Hamilton City Planning Manager Mark Davey champions Inclusionary Zoning as a collaborative circuit breaker for housing affordability. Through the Future Proof partnership, Hamilton negotiates developer agreements trading infrastructure support for affordable outcomes, proving local innovation can align market forces with community needs.
Video · 24 Oct 2025
Anita Vanstone explains how Queenstown captures land from rezoning to fund perpetual affordable housing, with 93% of Community Housing Trust capital coming from planning contributions. Facing a 7,000-home shortage, she argues market forces alone cannot deliver workforce accommodation communities need.
Video · 21 Oct 2025
In Queenstown's million-dollar market, Emily Irwin argues free-market supply can't deliver affordability in resort towns. She champions inclusionary housing mechanisms that capture land for perpetual workforce accommodation, challenging New Zealand's cultural fixation on property as investment rather than infrastructure.
Video · 13 Oct 2025
Dr Michael Rehm explains how New Zealand's failure to implement Inclusionary Housing has cost the country 20,000 affordable homes since 2016. He outlines why Auckland's earlier attempt failed and identifies community housing providers as essential to future success.
Video · 13 Oct 2025
Dr Patricia Austin explains how she helped create Queenstown's successful Inclusionary Housing programme and why New Zealand's legislative framework makes nationwide implementation challenging. She advocates reframing affordable housing requirements as economic development opportunities rather than social policy.
Video · 12 Oct 2025
Professor Laurence Murphy explains why markets never deliver affordable housing and how Inclusionary Zoning captures publicly-created land value for social benefit. He challenges Treasury ideology and development fallacies while demonstrating international evidence that the policy works at scale.
Video · 12 Oct 2025
Talavao Ngata discusses Pacific communities' housing challenges in Auckland, challenging assumptions about Pacific housing needs while identifying churches as holding untapped potential. She advocates for capability building funding and more specific articulation of community housing requirements.
Video · 10 Oct 2025
Chris Glaudel makes the case for embedding Inclusionary Housing into RMA reform, drawing on California experience and Queenstown's success. He proposes national frameworks with local flexibility, capturing publicly-created land value for perpetual affordable housing through community providers.
Video · 09 Oct 2025
Claire Dickinson explains how Britain's Section 106 delivers nearly half of England's affordable housing through national frameworks, viability controls, and negotiated flexibility. She offers New Zealand practical lessons from two decades of experience capturing planning value for community benefit.
Video · 08 Oct 2025
Annie Wilson advocates for Inclusionary Zoning in New Zealand, drawing on UK experience to demonstrate how mixed-tenure developments create sustainable communities. She emphasizes the need for clear policies, developer certainty, and recognizing housing as critical infrastructure requiring comprehensive frameworks.
Video · 07 Oct 2025
Former Queenstown mayor Jim Boult fought developer opposition to implement Inclusionary Zoning in a $1.75 million average-home market. The innovative Secure Home model eliminates speculation while building equity, proving intervention works in expensive resort towns.
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Podcast · 29 Nov 2025
Explore New Zealand's Karamū development—one of the first to embed inclusionary zoning at scale. Annie Wilson from Kāinga Maha shares insights on mixing affordable, public, and market housing to create equitable communities and sustainable solutions.
Podcast · 29 Nov 2025
Aspen's city manager shares lessons from a resort town where homes average $13 million yet mixed-income neighbourhoods thrive. Learn how inclusionary zoning and developer partnerships create affordable housing solutions relevant to Queenstown's similar challenges.
Podcast · 29 Nov 2025
Emily Irwin from Queenstown Lakes District Council argues that New Zealand's fixation on property wealth undermines community function. She explores inclusionary housing, the Overton window, and why bold political action requires shifting public dialogue beyond market-supply solutions.
Podcast · 29 Nov 2025
Queenstown's housing crisis is now an educational crisis. Principal Oded Nathan discusses how Wakatipu High School navigates staff retention, student wellbeing, and accommodation challenges—revealing why schools are now partnering with developers to secure housing solutions.
Podcast · 24 Oct 2025
Anita Vanstone from Queenstown Lakes District Council explains how New Zealand's most expensive housing market uses inclusionary zoning to secure affordable homes. She makes the case for national legislation and reframes housing as essential community infrastructure.
Podcast · 22 Oct 2025
Dr. Michael Rehm dissects Auckland's failed inclusionary zoning experiment—revealing how loopholes and missing stewardship collapsed the initiative. He calculates New Zealand would now have 20,000 perpetually affordable homes if national legislation had been adopted in 2016.
Podcast · 21 Oct 2025
Dr. Patricia Austin explains the legal frameworks behind inclusionary zoning, from property rights to retention mechanisms. She discusses why voluntary approaches fail under New Zealand's RMA and how housing needs assessments ensure communities retain essential workers and families.
Podcast · 19 Oct 2025
Professor Laurence Murphy explores how inclusionary zoning captures land value uplift for affordable housing. Drawing on international models, he argues for reframing housing as social infrastructure and rebuilding public trust in planning to achieve equitable outcomes.
Podcast · 15 Oct 2025
Talavao Ngata, CHA's Pacific Policy Advisor, shares her journey bridging human rights and community housing. She discusses mentorship, equity, and why housing policy must reflect the lived realities of Pasifika communities across Aotearoa.
Podcast · 14 Oct 2025
Chris Glaudel, CHA's Deputy Chief Executive, draws on decades of international experience to explain how inclusionary zoning works. He discusses lessons from Queenstown, California, and why national guardrails with local flexibility could transform New Zealand's housing system.
Podcast · 12 Oct 2025
Annie Wilson, Chief Executive of Kāinga Maha, discusses pioneering mixed blind tenure developments where affordable and market housing are indistinguishable. She shares lessons from Christchurch on creating inclusive, dignified communities through partnership-based delivery and innovative funding.
Podcast · 09 Oct 2025
Claire Dickinson from UK consultancy Quod explains how Section 106 agreements and planning tools deliver affordable housing at scale. She shares practical insights on viability assessments, inclusionary mechanisms, and balancing development ambition with social impact.
Case Study · 01 Oct 2025
Karamū demonstrates how voluntary Inclusionary Zoning can deliver mixed-tenure communities. This Christchurch development integrates social housing, first-home buyer units, and market sales through tenure-blind design and cross-subsidy, proving private developers can address diverse housing needs whilst maintaining commercial viability.
Case Study · 01 Jun 2025
Bridge Housing's leasehold and shared equity programmes slash home costs by removing land prices, enabling Waikato families earning $75,000-plus to access ownership through innovative partnerships with Westpac, councils and charitable trusts.
Case Study · 20 Apr 2025
Established in 2007, Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust tackles affordability in New Zealand's priciest region through award-winning programmes like Secure Home, pioneering place-based, community-driven solutions.
Case Study · 05 Apr 2025
Christchurch Methodist Mission's Guild Street Housing Community discusses collaborative faith-based partnership, transforming temporary earthquake accommodation into permanent homes with dedicated community support, demonstrating how intentional community-building creates thriving social housing.
CHA Story · 28 Oct 2025
Wakatipu High School Principal Oded Nathan confronts Queenstown's housing crisis head-on, managing staff accommodation and seeking land donations as teachers flee unaffordable housing. With families struggling and talent leaving, he warns against becoming another Aspen—a resort town hollowed of essential workers.
CHA Story · 07 Oct 2025
Aspen's city manager Sara Ott reveals how a $13 million average home price forced creative solutions. Decades of workforce housing experimentation transformed sceptical developers into partners, proving that resort town viability depends on housing essential workers.
CHA Story · 10 Jun 2025
Young Queenstown business-owners Leo and Sean share their struggle with million-dollar house prices and $500-weekly rents, highlighting how essential workers face impossible housing choices whilst holiday homes sit empty across the district.
CHA Story · 21 Apr 2025
CHA Stories brings human experiences to housing policy discussions. This edition features Fran O'Connor from Queenstown's Toru Apartments, demonstrating how effective initiatives transform lives across Aotearoa.
