CHA Hub Podcast

Providing continual knowledge, deep insights, wisdom and resources to help create safe, affordable, long-term homes for everyone in Aotearoa New Zealand.

CHA Hub Podcast is a society podcast hosted by CHA Hub, with 60 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #59

  #59 - Trust the Collective Intelligence - How Porirua reimagined the citizens’ assembly

  Aug 14, 20261h 4mS1

  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 rangatahi together as equals. We explore what it took to build trust across Porirua, why young people were given a genuine voice in the process, and what happened when people with very different perspectives were given the time and space to deliberate together. And we hear how the assembly ultimately reached consensus — with its recommendations now influencing council policy and continuing community action. We’d like to thank the group for taking the time to speak with us for this episode. And don’t forget to subscribe to the CHA Hub Podcast — wherever you get your podcasts from. The CHA Hub Podcast is sponsored by our Founding Partner, Westpac New Zealand.

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  Episode #58

  #58 - Mahera Maihi - Mā Te Huruhuru: - With adorned feathers, the bird will fly - kaupapa Māori youth housing and the power of coming home

  May 24, 202649 minS1

  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 2026. Mahera grew up in Ōtara, South Auckland, the child of two people caught in a collision of worlds — her mother from a long line of educated people, experts in carving, weaving, and traditional Māori knowledge; her father the president of a Stormtroopers gang chapter, shaped by state care, by a violent father who came home broken from the Korean War, by a life that offered him few exits and no map. What her father gave her, for all the chaos he brought, was this: education is the key to freedom. Go get educated and when you do, come back for your siblings. She did exactly that. In this episode, Mahera talks about the night a young woman arrived at her door with blood on her face and nowhere to go, and what happened next. She talks about two years of bureaucratic combat to become a housing provider — a circular trap where each ministry required what only the other could give — and what it took to break the deadlock. She talks about zero property damage, zero police callouts, and not one claim on the Supported Housing fund. And she talks about the deepest aspiration: to be the bridge that brings young people home. Not just to stable housing in South Auckland. Home. We'd like to thank Mahera for taking the time to speak with us for this episode. And don't forget to subscribe to the CHA Hub Podcast—wherever you get your podcasts from. The CHA Hub Podcast is sponsored by our Founding Partner, Westpac New Zealand.

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  Episode #58

  #58 - Mahera Maihi - Mā Te Huruhuru: - With adorned feathers, the bird will fly - kaupapa Māori youth housing and the power of coming home

  May 24, 202649 minS1

  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 2026. Mahera grew up in Ōtara, South Auckland, the child of two people caught in a collision of worlds — her mother from a long line of educated people, experts in carving, weaving, and traditional Māori knowledge; her father the president of a Stormtroopers gang chapter, shaped by state care, by a violent father who came home broken from the Korean War, by a life that offered him few exits and no map. What her father gave her, for all the chaos he brought, was this: education is the key to freedom. Go get educated and when you do, come back for your siblings. She did exactly that. In this episode, Mahera talks about the night a young woman arrived at her door with blood on her face and nowhere to go, and what happened next. She talks about two years of bureaucratic combat to become a housing provider — a circular trap where each ministry required what only the other could give — and what it took to break the deadlock. She talks about zero property damage, zero police callouts, and not one claim on the Supported Housing fund. And she talks about the deepest aspiration: to be the bridge that brings young people home. Not just to stable housing in South Auckland. Home. We'd like to thank Mahera for taking the time to speak with us for this episode. And don't forget to subscribe to the CHA Hub Podcast—wherever you get your podcasts from. The CHA Hub Podcast is sponsored by our Founding Partner, Westpac New Zealand.

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  Episode #57

  #57 - Aaron Hendry - Homelessness - Our three duties

  May 23, 202651 minS1

  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 sixteen-year-old who had been sleeping at a bus stop. Confident there would be a system for this, he rang Work and Income. Too young, they said. He rang CYFS. Too old for them too. That clarity never left him. In this episode, Aaron talks about the pipelines the state has built directly into homelessness — the care system, the justice system, the health system — and why over sixty percent of the rangatahi coming through The Front Door are Māori, and why that cannot be separated from colonisation and land loss. He talks about Wales, and what Aotearoa could choose to do now: a duty to assist, a duty to refer, and a duty to collaborate — three legislative obligations that would mean no young person is ever again discharged from a hospital, a prison, or state care into nothing. And he talks about why it has to be law, not policy, because policy falls away with a change of government, and the framework to enforce it already exists. He ends not with statistics but with a question: what system would you want designed for the people you love? His answer, honestly given, is not yet this one. We'd like to thank Aaron for taking the time to speak with us for this episode. And don't forget to subscribe to the CHA Hub Podcast — wherever you get your podcasts from. The CHA Hub Podcast is sponsored by our Founding Partner, Westpac New Zealand.

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  Episode #57

  #57 - Rami Alrudaini - Housing First - Collective impact, lived experience and the infrastructure that makes Housing First work at scale to tackle homelessness.

  May 23, 202619 minS1

  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 he had a word for it. He came into the homelessness sector from mental health, where he first witnessed people with complex needs being systematically denied access to housing, and has spent his career since building the systems and infrastructure to prevent that from happening. In this episode, Rami talks about what a backbone organisation actually does — the connective tissue that holds a collaborative together, largely invisible to the public but essential to everything else working. He talks about the National Homelessness Data Project, what it is finding, and why welfare conditionality is showing up in the data as a direct pipeline into homelessness. He talks about the national lived experience community of practice, and why the demand for it is coming not just from people with lived experience but from organisational leaders who recognise its value. And he talks about Finland — how one country reduced homelessness by 80% over forty years through four things: good data, prevention, Housing First as a philosophy not a contract, and building houses. His conclusion is simple. It is not rocket science. What is missing is the political will. We'd like to thank Rami for taking the time to speak with us for this episode. And don't forget to subscribe to the CHA Hub Podcast — wherever you get your podcasts from. The CHA Hub Podcast is sponsored by our Founding Partner, Westpac New Zealand.

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