The JHNA Insights

We design the world around one version of life. Then life changes. The JHNA Insights is a podcast grounded in a human centric built environment, bringing people, place, property and progress into one conversation. Each episode draws on research, practice and lived experience to explore how we live, move, work and belong. If the system has ever felt like it was not designed with you in mind, you are not imagining it.

The JHNA Insights is a science podcast hosted by Dr Johari Hussein Nassor Amar, with 20 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.

Dr Johari Hussein Nassor Amar hosts The JHNA Insights, a science show with 20 episodes published.

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  Episode #7

  Episode 2.7 Why the Homes That Would Help You Are the Ones You Can’t Afford with Liza Neil and Véronique Lutchmaya

  Aug 15, 20261h 14mS2

  Finding a home is hard enough. Staying in one, affording to run it, and adapting it when life changes? That is where the housing conversation gets more complicated. In this episode, I speak with Liza Neil , a Principal Architect with more than three decades of experience, and Véronique Lutchmaya , Founder & CEO of Unique Tenants Consult , who built her business from her own experience advocating for tenant rights. Together, they trace the gap between what gets built and the people those homes are supposed to serve. Listen to find out: Why the person managing your home can enter the industry with no prerequisites Why commercial tenants are treated as clients worth keeping, while residential tenants often are not Why protections in the landlord-agent relationship do not necessarily extend to the renter Why single parents and single renters are being priced out of a market that was never designed to include them Why a home that works at 30s may leave you with few choices at 60s What Australia's WWII housing response can teach us about building smaller and thinking differently about intervention So perhaps the real question is not simply: “Can I find a home?” But: “Was this market ever designed with me in mind?” Keywords : Australian housing crisis, rental affordability Australia, tenant rights Australia, rental reform Australia, affordable housing, accessible housing, ageing in place, housing stress, property management Australia, livable housing, rent stabilisation, energy efficient rental homes

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  Episode #6

  Episode 2.6 The Bill That Never Stops Comings with Jenny Danson

  Aug 2, 202644 minS2

  The greatest cost of an unhealthy home is not the electricity bill, but the lasting impact on the people living inside it. In this episode, I speak with Jenny Danson , Founder and CEO of the UK’s Healthy Homes Hub and Innovation Champion at the 2026 Housing Innovation Awards. Drawing on Jenny’s UK experience in a system with around 4.2 million social housing homes, the conversation explores what Australia can learn from treating housing as a health issue, not just a financial asset, and what happens when that approach fails. These are the questions at the heart of the conversation: What changed after the death of two-year-old Awaab Ishak, and why did his family’s struggle for repairs become a national turning point? Why do invisible risks such as poor indoor air quality and radon remain outside many housing decisions? What is missed when mould, heat, cold, fire and electrical hazards are treated as isolated defects? Could maintenance data and Internet of Things sensors help providers act before residents become seriously unwell? Is Australia designing homes for today’s climate, or for the more extreme heat and health risks of the future? Listen to discover who ultimately pays the bill for unhealthy housing, and learn what must change before today’s housing problems become tomorrow’s health crisis.

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  EP2.4 Ageing in place or ageing stuck in place? with Nick Ryan and Amanda Bailey

  Jul 19, 202644 minS2

  Ageing in place sounds like the goal. But someone can remain in the same home for decades and still become stranded when the GP retires, the bus route changes and neighbours no longer answer the door. In this Episode 2.4, I speak with Nick Ryan of Lutheran Services and Amanda Bailey of Faith Housing Australia about the gap between ageing in place and ageing stuck in place. Listen to discover: Why homes designed for one stage of life can quickly stop working when health, mobility or family circumstances change. How a single household can support or fail multigenerational families, including carers and people with disability. What happens when renters need home modifications but do not control the property or how long they can remain there. What long social housing waits and rigid eligibility rules mean for people facing illness, disability or relationship breakdown. How people become stranded without moving when transport, healthcare, shops and community connections disappear around them. Which inclusive housing models are already working and why housing, health and care systems must stop treating one life as separate policy problems. This conversation asks a bigger question: can our homes, neighbourhoods and policies adapt with us, or are people being forced to fit places that no longer fit their lives?

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  Episode 2.2 Your Home Is Doing More Work Than You Think

  May 23, 202650 minS2

  <p>Housing is never just a place to live. It shapes how we age, work, connect, move and belong.</p><p>In this episode, I speak with Simon Kuestenmacher, Co-founder and Director of The Demographics Group, and Terry Rawnsley, Director of Planning & Infrastructure Economics at KPMG Australia, about the deeper role housing plays in our lives.</p><p>We explore how housing is tied to demographic change, infrastructure, affordability, ageing and household needs. The conversation looks at the growing mismatch between the homes we build and the lives people are actually living, from large homes on the urban fringe to...

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  Episode 2.1: A Home Should Last a Lifetime But Most Don’t with Dr Tanja Tyvimaa

  Apr 24, 202643 minS2

  <p>We design homes for one version of your life. Then life happens.</p><p>Australia spends around $500 million a year adapting homes after a fall or injury, not counting the costs when households grow, shrink or shift in what they need. These costs show up later but they start with how we design and build.</p><p>In this episode, I speak with Finland-based housing specialist Dr Tanja Tyvimaa about why housing needs to work across a lifetime, not just at move-in. She is involved with the Carbon Neutral Tampere 2030 initiative, with work centred on the building life cycle...

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