The JHNA Insights
by Dr Johari Hussein Nassor Amar
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About this podcast
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.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 26 episodes
- Episode 2.13 Gentrification Has Reached the Regional Town with Isara Khanjanasthiti and Aashreetha (Aash) Koonu · 53 min · Season 2 Episode 13Regional towns can have plans for housing, jobs and infrastructure, yet new homes can arrive without the services people need. As housing costs push people beyond capital cities…
- Episode 2.12: How Civil Infrastructure Shapes the Pace of Housing Delivery with Nicholas Proud and Andrew Mihno · 60 min · Season 2 Episode 12Planning approval doesn't necessarily mean a block of land is ready for housing. Missing roads, sewerage connections, power or funding can leave entire developments on hold, even…
- Episode 2.11 The Gap Between Passing Certification and a Building That Holds Up with Craig MacDonald (FRICS) · 37 min · Season 2 Episode 11A building can pass inspection, receive its certificate and still develop serious defects, as Sydney's Opal Tower and Mascot Towers have shown. What happens when the warning…
- Episode 2.10: Why Can't Anyone Build the Housing We Actually Need? with Simon Croft · 57 min · Season 2 Episode 10Australia has promised 1.2 million new homes by 2029. Hitting that number depends on far more than building faster. In this episode, I am joined by Simon Croft, Chief Executive…
- Episode 2.9 Choice, Control and the Search for Home with Alecia Rathbone and Kelly Suber · 1 h 3 min · Season 2 Episode 9You have a right to choose where you live. The NDIS is built around choice and control, and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities recognises that right…
- Episode 2.8 The Factory Was Supposed to Fix This. Why Hasn't It? with Dr Andrea Sharam and Peter Crossley · 48 min · Season 2 Episode 8Factory-built homes. Faster. Cheaper. The fix we have been waiting for. But is that the whole story? In Episode 2.8, I speak with Peter Crossley, General Manager at Calco Trusses…
- Episode 2.7 Why the Homes That Would Help You Are the Ones You Can’t Afford with Liza Neil and Véronique Lutchmaya · 1 h 14 min · Season 2 Episode 7Finding 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 2.6 The Bill That Never Stops Comings with Jenny Danson · 44 min · Season 2 Episode 6The 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…
- Episode 2.5 When Every System Fails You at Once with Joel Dignam · 24 min · Season 2 Episode 5In this episode, I speak with Joel Dignam, Building Better Homes Campaign Lead at the Summer Foundation and Founder of Better Renting, about what it would take for renting to…
- Episode 2.4 Ageing-in-place or ageing stuck in place? with Nick Ryan and Amanda Bailey · 44 min · Season 2 Episode 4Ageing 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…
- Episode 2.3 There Are More Ways to Live Than Own or Rent with Emily McMullan · 44 min · Season 2 Episode 3Housing security is no longer just a question of owning or renting. As affordability pressures increase, more people are turning to co-ownership, long-term renting, shared…
- Episode 2.2 Your Home Is Doing More Work Than You Think with Simon Kuestenmacher and Terry Rawnsley · 50 min · Season 2 Episode 1Housing 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-founder and Director of The…
- Episode 2.1: A Home Should Last a Lifetime But Most Don’t with Dr Tanja Tyvimaa · 43 min · Season 2 Episode 1We 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, not counting the costs when…
- Episode 1.13 Navigating the Rental Market During Housing Crisis with Alice Pennycott and Leo Paterson Ross · 59 min · Season 1 Episode 13Renting in Australia is no longer just expensive. For many renters, it is unstable, exhausting and taking a serious financial and emotional toll. In this Episode 13, I am joined…
- Episode 1.12 Reframing the role of inclusive housing in Australia’s traditional housing system with Nicole Makin-Doherty · 42 min · Season 1 Episode 12Before 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 independent shower after moving into an…
- Episode 1.11: After the flood - Policy pathways for housing and buybacks in climate-affected communities with Danny Rose and Patrick Leahy · 43 min · Season 1 Episode 11By 2050, more than one million Australian homes could be uninsurable. Flood-prone properties have already lost $42 billion in value, while disaster costs are projected to reach…
- Episode 1.10: Can we solve the housing AND climate crisis at the same time with Ammon Beyerle and Jeremy Mansfield OAM · 47 min · Season 1 Episode 10Australia needs 1.2 million new homes by 2029, while housing stress, homelessness and climate risks continue to intensify. A typical new home releases around 185 tonnes of CO₂…
- Episode 1.9: How Rooming Houses Could Help the Housing Crisis (If Policy Let Them) with Paul Zanetti · 42 min · Season 1 Episode 9When more than 10,000 Australians experience homelessness every month and rental vacancy rates sit just above 1%, you would think every state would be doing everything possible…
- Episode 1.8: Engineering and planning solutions for a safer, more affordable climate-ready with Pradesh Ramiah and Rob Cowle · 59 min · Season 1 Episode 8Climate change, housing affordability and infrastructure resilience are colliding into one of Australia’s biggest challenges. Disaster costs already exceed $38 billion a year and…
- Episode 1.7: Modern methods of construction and scaling housing supply in Australia with Nicholas O'Neill and Damien Crough · 43 min · Season 1 Episode 7Traditional construction now takes about 55 weeks to complete one home, while more than 160,000 households are waiting for social housing. If Australia keeps building the same…
