From Fale to Future – Reimagining Pacific Housing is a regional conference hosted by Penina Trust, a leading Pasifika housing provider based in Aotearoa New Zealand. Our conference will bring together Pacific and Aotearoa New Zealand leaders, housing providers, policymakers, designers, and community voices to explore how we can build stronger, culturally grounded housing futures for Pasifika families and collectively reimagine housing for Pasifika families.

For more than a decade, Penina Trust has worked alongside Pasifika families responding to housing insecurity, overcrowding, and unaffordability—developing transitional housing, social housing, affordable rentals, and pathways to home ownership that are grounded in Pacific values and lived realities. Through this work, Penina has learned that lasting housing solutions cannot be shaped in isolation. Across the Pacific are deep cultural knowledge systems, strong traditions of multi‑generational living, and community‑centred approaches that offer vital insights for the future of Pacific housing in New Zealand and the region.

Over three days, the conference will focus on:

• Housing insecurity and affordability, including social housing, affordable rentals, and pathways to home ownership
• Multi‑generational living, how housing can better support Pacific family structures
• Housing design for Pacific futures, including cultural design, accessibility, modular solutions, renewable energy, and smart technology
• Government policy and partnerships, how collaboration can deliver sustainable, culturally aligned housing
• Building local capability, through apprenticeships and growing Pacific‑led construction and design expertise

Set in Samoa, this gathering creates a space for genuine exchange—sharing challenges, learning from Pacific experience, and shaping practical, culturally grounded solutions that strengthen families and communities across the region.

Join us as we look From Fale to Future, and work together to build housing that honours culture, supports wellbeing, and creates resilient Pacific communities for generations to come.