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Episode 2.2 Your Home Is Doing More Work Than You Think
Season 2 Episode 1
Housing is never just a place to live. It shapes how we age, work, connect, move and belong.
In this episode, I speak with Simon Kuestenmacher, Co-fou…
6 hours ago
Episode 2.1: A Home Should Last a Lifetime But Most Don’t with Dr Tanja Tyvimaa
Season 2 Episode 1
We design homes for one version of your life. Then life happens.
Australia spends around $500 million a year adapting homes after a fall or injury, no…
4 weeks ago
Episode 1.13 Navigating the Rental Market During Housing Crisis with Alice Pennycott and Leo Paterson Ross
Season 1 Episode 13
Renting in Australia is no longer just expensive. It is unstable, exhausting and quietly wearing people down.
In this episode of Navigating the Rental…
5 months, 1 week ago
Episode 1.12 Reframing the role of inclusive housing in Australia’s traditional housing system with Nicole Makin-Doherty
Season 1 Episode 12
Before recording this Episode 12, I read a story about a man who had been given a bath all his life and was finally able to take his first independen…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 1.11: After the flood - Policy pathways for housing and buybacks in climate-affected communities with Danny Rose and Patrick Leahy
Season 1 Episode 11
Over the past 48 hours, four states - Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria - have been hit by extreme weather. Record-breaking O…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Episode 1.10: Can we solve the housing AND climate crisis at the same time with Ammon Beyerle and Jeremy Mansfield OAM
Season 1 Episode 10
Australia needs 1.2 million new homes by 2029, yet housing stress, rising homelessness and climate risks are intensifying. A typical new home release…
7 months ago
Episode 1.9: How Rooming Houses Could Help the Housing Crisis (If Policy Let Them) with Paul Zanetti
Season 1 Episode 9
When more than 10,000 Australians experience homelessness every month and rental vacancy rates sit just above 1%, you would think every state would b…
7 months, 1 week ago
Episode 1.8: Engineering and planning solutions for a safer, more affordable climate-ready with Pradesh Ramiah and Rob Cowle
Season 1 Episode 8
Climate change, housing affordability and infrastructure resilience are colliding into one of Australia’s biggest challenges. Disaster costs already …
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 1.7: Modern methods of construction and scaling housing supply in Australia with Nicholas O'Neill and Damien Crough
Season 1 Episode 7
Traditional construction now takes about 55 weeks just to finish one home and meanwhile more than 160,000 households are waiting for social housing. …
8 months ago
Episode 1.6: Understanding strata's critical role in the Australian housing ecosystem with Kate McHugh and Michael Lovell
Season 1 Episode 6
By 2050 half of Australians are expected to live in strata accommodation, yet most buyers do not fully understand what they are purchasing, and this …
8 months, 1 week ago