The Waiheke Community Housing Trust formed as a proactive group to help solve Waiheke’s housing crisis.

 
 

Established in 2016 by three Waiheke community members who understood Waiheke’s housing crisis: Every year Waiheke loses affordable housing and it becomes harder to replace.

This means rising prices for rental accommodation and long-term residents being pushed off the Island.

Armed with determination to make a difference for Waiheke families the Waiheke Community Housing Trust formed as a proactive group taking steps to solving the housing crisis on Waiheke.

Aims:

  1. To add affordable housing to Waiheke’s housing stock.

  2. To partner with property owners to provide more long-term affordable rentals.

  3. To advocate for changes necessary to make it easier to develop and providing affordable housing.

Target Groups: Long-term Waiheke Island residents.

 

Trustees.

 

Our trustees were head-hunted from within the community for their expertise in advocacy, urban planning, community and housing development. 

 

Paul Carew
Co-Chair

Paul is an experienced property project manager – now semi retired. His experience is in managing construction and alteration projects for owners of commercial and institutional properties. He has been resident on Waiheke since 2000, initially part time and fulltime since 2012. As chair of the WCHT his role is to coordinate the efforts of the trustees, advisors and volunteers to achieve the Trust’s aims.

Teresa Quin
Co-Chair

Teresa is a long term resident of Waiheke, one of multiple generations.  She has seen the housing crisis develop over the years, with a dramatic decline in affordable housing over the last 5.  She is involved in food rescue and supporting vulnerable people on the island, witnessing the devastating effects of the housing shortage on families, workers and long term residents who rely on rentals for their homes. She is motivated to be part of the solution.

Nora West

Nora has lived between Auckland City and Waiheke since 1985. She bought her first Island property here in 1992 for $32k. She has been a community activist, artist and bannermaker working in the fields of prison and mental health. She was the Arts Manager for the KRd Business Association and is a member of Upcycle Redesign,  an Island-based craft collective.

Mark brings a long history of property development and community activism to the table.

Mark Inglis

Mike has forty years experience in construction, both in hands-on building and technical design. Since 2016 his work has been focused on delivery of social housing, community and public infrastructure. On Waiheke the housing situation has only been deteriorating. The lack of affordable housing here is leading to poor health outcomes and lack of community resilience to are but two of the negative effects on  individuals and the community. Mike moved to Waiheke just prior to the WCHT's inception in 2017.

Mike Davis

Employees.

Damian lives on Waiheke with his young family. He comes from an operations, software and construction background. He executes the Trust’s vision: handling project management, property management, advocacy strategies and public relations. He gets that Waiheke’s housing situation is complicated but believes it’s solvable now and for the long-term. It requires a total community effort to improve and he’s committed to bringing everyone along.

Damian Sycamore
General Manager

General Enquiries.

Contact our team by submitting this general enquiries form.