Housing, Whānau & The Election: Rethinking Home

Host Andrew Urquhart sits down with Justin Smith to discuss how the housing crisis and election-year politics are reshaping Kiwi family life. With his own teenage sons now questioning policy and his mother visiting from the Far North, Justin reflects on what intergenerational living and long-term housing decisions mean for ordinary families.

Justin argues that the old model of shipping ageing parents off to retirement villages, while taxing or dispersing family wealth, is being replaced out of necessity by multi-generational households, granny flats and intensified urban living. He points to migrant and Māori communities as examples of this working well, and advocates treating the family home as an intergenerational asset rather than simply a taxable windfall, while urging parents to pass on independence, generosity and strong values to their children alongside any material inheritance.

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