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As part of our commitment to diversifying the housing system, we’re committee members for The Housing Innovation Society (This) - we share our time and resources to support their mission of “bringing collective housing into the mainstream in Aotearoa”.

We’re excited to share the news of their bi-annual CoHo Hui happening this April 15-17, in Ōtautahi Christchurch!

This year’s CoHo Hui theme is “The Future of Housing”, which is in line with the special issue journal with Emerald Publishing, that will contain the best and most relevant papers that are submitted to the conference, and others from a wide range of academics.

A brilliant lineup of speakers have been announced; they’ll all bring new knowledge and perspective to Aotearoa, which will inform the collective housing movement here.

Tickets and registration is happening now. Go to their website for more details!

We were delighted to hear that we’ve been selected as one of the “Next 95” by the Sustainable Business Network!

The list recognises innovators and entrepreneurs progressing sustainable business in Aotearoa. We’re honoured to be among these other incredible businesses and organisations!

Ngā mihi nui Sustainable Business Network for your inspiring mahi.

Asylum 2023: Rethinking Our Future Neighbourhoods is out now!

Guest edited by Dr Natalie Allen and Devon Sanson from TUA, the journal published by Unitec ePress contains 12 practitioner and peer-reviewed academic articles.

We have drawn together articles that explore ways to address our social, cultural and environmental challenges, opportunities for decolonisation what embracing citizen-centric approaches to designing our neighbourhoods might look like, and how the built-environment professions might work together in new ways to deliver these wellbeing outcomes. The issue includes new, young voices, and some less-than-conventional ideas. The combination of peer-reviewed and practitioner articles asks the reader to imagine what amight be, and challenge their own preconceptions.

It was great to celebrate the launch of the journal with Unitec | Te Pūkenga at their architecture gradshow last week, along with some of the authors who attended. Thank you to Unitec for giving us this platform, and to each of the authors for making this such a great edition.

We encourage you to read and absorb the edition, and let us know what you think!

Natalie, Greer, and the whole team at The Urban Advisory have been putting in hard mahi to launch something pretty special, New Zealand’s Housing Survey!

New Zealand’s Housing Survey is the culmination of many years of work in the housing sector; researching housing, developing housing strategies and housing needs assessments, and working with different groups to deliver housing that meets their unique needs. We're stoked to be able to share what we've learned!

Through this unique housing survey we will be able to help to build awareness around how people live, want to live and what barriers are in the way to achieving their housing aspirations, plugging a critical gap in the information that is needed for meaningful decision making. New Zealand’s Housing Survey results will provide the evidence that's been missing about the kind of housing people want and need and how this is different from what is currently available to them.

We hope that government agencies, developers, councils, community providers, iwi and hapū, researchers, social scientists and many others will find this information useful.

Help us spread the word, take and share the survey here, or by clicking the button below.