Home Foundation is the steward of the Home Foundation group. As a Foundation owner, we are driven by our purpose to create pathways to belonging and opportunity for the communities we serve. Our mission is to ensure every person in Aotearoa New Zealand and beyond has access to a secure, affordable, and healthy place to call home. As a charitable trust, Home Foundation reinvests profits to deliver more healthy, affordable, and secure homes, and a community to come home to.

A home is more than just a house, it is the foundation for a sense of belonging. We believe that when people have access to safe, affordable and healthy homes, together with a sense of permanence and belonging we provide them, their whānau and their community with a greater chance of succeeding in all other areas of life.

Home Foundation was established to tackle one of Aotearoa’s most pressing challenges: ensuring people have access to affordable, healthy homes. Born out of the experience of delivering thousands of houses through Home Construction, our founders saw the need for a charitable trust that could hold a wider vision — one that connected community wellbeing, system-level advocacy, and long-term investment into a single mission.

From those beginnings, Home Foundation became the kaitiaki of a wider group of entities — construction, development, investment, and housing management — all working towards the same vision, while reinvesting profits back into creating places of belonging, connection, and opportunity.

Home Foundation operates under four key pillars: Research, Innovation, Provision of Housing, and Sector Support. Together, these pillars enable us to work across the full width of the housing system — from the drawing board to the front door. Our work spans development, construction, finance, and policy, but always returns to the heart of the matter: how people’s lives are transformed through secure, affordable, and healthy homes.

We know the housing challenge will only be solved when the system is addressed in its entirety. That means connecting government policy with practical delivery, reducing construction costs while lifting quality, designing places that foster belonging, ensuring tenancies are supported with wraparound services, and raising capital in ways that generate both social and financial returns. By holding this whole-of-system perspective and working in partnership with others, Home Foundation is uniquely placed to catalyse lasting change — building not only homes, but flourishing communities across Aotearoa.