Episode 2.7 Why the Homes That Would Help You Are the Ones You Can’t Afford with Liza Neil and Véronique Lutchmaya

Finding 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, I speak with Liza Neil, a Principal Architect with more than three decades of experience, and Véronique Lutchmaya, Founder & CEO of Unique Tenants Consult, who built her business from her own experience advocating for tenant rights. Together, they trace the gap between what gets built and the people those homes are supposed to serve.

Listen to find out:

• Why the person managing your home can enter the industry with no prerequisites
• Why commercial tenants are treated as clients worth keeping, while residential tenants often are not
• Why protections in the landlord-agent relationship do not necessarily extend to the renter
• Why single parents and single renters are being priced out of a market that was never designed to include them
• Why a home that works at 30s may leave you with few choices at 60s
• What Australia's WWII housing response can teach us about building smaller and thinking differently about intervention

So perhaps the real question is not simply: “Can I find a home?”

But: “Was this market ever designed with me in mind?”

Keywords: Australian housing crisis, rental affordability Australia, tenant rights Australia, rental reform Australia, affordable housing, accessible housing, ageing in place, housing stress, property management Australia, livable housing, rent stabilisation, energy efficient rental homes