Working Locally | Thinking Globally
About Us
Home in Place - he ringa akiaki - is delivering a new model of community housing properties and services in New Zealand. As a not-for-profit, regulated Community Housing Provider (CHP), we offer specialist tenancy and property management services in Auckland and the regional north island, from Wellington to Taranaki.
Our place-based approach to tenancy and property management services, focuses on improving the social and economic circumstances of our residents, as well as the communities in which they live, by delivering new and high-quality housing in mixed tenure communities.
Home in Place offers a range of community development activities for residents designed to foster social inclusion and personal development. Our focus on empowerment and support is a major contributor to our high resident satisfaction levels over the past four years of our operation.
We partner with government and development partners to fund and deliver new models of secure, long term affordable, permanent housing.
He ringa akiaki
We see ourselves as supporters, as guides to ensure that people and families have what is needed to live a healthy and prosperous life providing a strong hononga (connection) to the kainga (home) and the hapori (community).
He ringa akiaki, a hand up, a helping embrace, a hand for all.
Our Board of Directors
Ben Iosefa
BOARD CHAIR
Non-Executive Director with 16 years of governance experience in all major regions of the world and across multiple sectors including clean fuels, energy, housing, property development, logistics, and automotive.
Professional director and current board member at Counties Energy, WineWorks Group, Keith Andrews Holdings, and ECL Group. Ben is also a board advisor working with a variety of high growth companies in Australasia and Europe and was previously a board member at Carbon Recycling International (Iceland). He spent more than 23 years working in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific as a senior executive at Methanex Corporation.
Josie Adlam
DEPUTY BOARD CHAIR
Josie has been involved in the not-for-profit sector in New Zealand as a Director since 2011, in addition to commercial Director roles with high growth businesses.
With 24 years in the ICT and Banking sector and several senior executive roles, Josie now provides executive mentoring/coaching and strategy facilitation services for both high growth businesses and not-for-profits in New Zealand.
Kwesi Addo
DIRECTOR
Kwesi is a Non-Executive Director with 13 years’ experience in community housing.
Legal practitioner with over 10 years’ experience primarily in the areas of local government, commercial and construction law in private practice and in-house with global engineering consultancy firms (advising on all aspects of major infrastructure projects, including joint ventures and alliances), with additional experience in commercial and civil litigation, debt recovery and insolvency, privacy, tax and employment law.
Greg Budworth
Greg is the Group Managing Director of the Home in Place Group.
Previous roles: Chair of PowerHousing Australia, Vice President General Assembly of Partners, and Co-Chair Civil Society Partner Group (to UN Habitat), Director Australian Institute of Housing, Community Housing Institute of Australia.
Currently, Member of University of Newcastle’s MBA Advisory Committee.
Greg has previous experience in CEO and senior management roles in for-profit human services organisations, Christian ministry and NSW police force criminal investigator.
Our Team
Larissa Bridge
Alfredo Rapues
Larissa Bridge
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Bec Bailey
Alfredo Rapues
Larissa Bridge
TENANCY MANAGEMENT COORDINATOR
Alfredo Rapues
Alfredo Rapues
Alfredo Rapues
BUILDING MANAGER
Vansh Bagga
Alfredo Rapues
Alfredo Rapues
BUILDING MANAGER
Puni Palelei
Puni Palelei
Puni Palelei
TENANCY RELATIONS OFFICER
Renee Pere
Puni Palelei
Puni Palelei
TENANCY RELATIONS OFFICER
Angela Brown
Puni Palelei
Angela Brown
TENANCY RELATIONS OFFICER
The Home in Place P5 Framework
Home in Place has develop the P5 Ethical Framework to guide our actions and reach our objectives under the 2020-2030 Strategic Plan.
The P5 Framework is:
- People: We will endeavour to support and develop all the people that our activities encounter
- Place: We will work to create places and communities that allow people to flourish
- Planet: We will support the protection of the environment for the benefit of future generations
- Partnership: We will forge and maintain effective and equal partnerships to support our activities
- Performance: Our achievement of these objectives is founded on a commitment to high standards of performance and a process of continuous improvement.