CHA Hub Podcast Episode - The recovery runs later
May 27, 2026
Housing First Ōtautahi Manager Nic Fleming featured on a recent episode of the Community Housing Aotearoa - CHA Hub Podcast, sharing insight into the work that the Housing First and Outreach Rapid Response teams are doing to support people experiencing homelessness.
In this episode, Nicola talks about what Housing First actually looks like on the ground in Ōtautahi— who qualifies, how the outreach team finds people nobody has ever counted, and why recovery takes years, not months. She talks about the health gap her team identified and what they did about it, and why she believes Housing First is not a housing programme at all. It is a recovery programme.
