Lets cover off the most basic requirement for a Good home: Our home-as-shelter.

Essentially everywhere around the world, we humans won't survive without some form of physical shelter from the environment. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs places our bodily (physiological) needs as the most basic, fundamental level. This makes sense: if we can't function as organisms, we won't survive, and our home-as-shelter helps our bodies stay alive.

A Good house needs to ticks fundamental functional boxes that are necessary for us to function, and get on with the business of living. A Good home is warm. A Good home is dry.

How is it that in New Zealand in 2018, we are talking about how too many houses are failing to meet our most basic needs.

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Our connection to whatever little corner of the planet we find ourselves in, or choose to place ourselves on, matters.

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