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Ray Finch

Potter

Sep 17, 2026

11:10
That's also ways on the mental health because of the worry.
11:19
So Ray, how do we solve the problem? Yeah, I mean, at Laura Ferguson, we've recently become a community housing provider, which was a real strategic objective to A, try to influence the way Ministry of Housing or now Ministry of Cities, Enterprise and Transport, MSURT, consider housing.
11:41
accessible accommodation and true disability-specific housing.
11:47
So we've become that chip where that affords us now the opportunity to, when the windows open, we apply for ministry support to build homes in specific areas that would put those homes on the community housing register and someone like Flynn would be able to move into those and pay the appropriate rents based on their income.
12:09
So if someone's not employed and they're on disability benefit, they'd pay as little as $75 a week.
12:15
And if someone like Flynn with a double degree and he's about to get a great job with Fonterra, you know, he can pay full rent.
12:23
But what's great about that community housing model is it is an income-related rental approach to accessing it.

6 MINS LATER

18:39
That's exciting, eh? And in terms of the big ambition, Ray, with the 160 houses, of course, which you hope will just be the start of this workable solution, what's your kind of timeframe that you've got to work with?

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