Who we are
MAY LOW (Co Chair)
May Low has a passion for not for profits, especially those building stronger, more robust communities. May believes that sustainable, affordable housing is the cornerstone to ensuring our whole community can thrive.
May is the Chief Operating Officer at Kiwi Innovation Network and serves on several charity boards. May has degrees in Accounting, Commercial Law, Computational Logic and Mathematics and is a Chartered Accountant with Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand.
THOMAS GIBBONS (Co Chair)
Thomas Gibbons is a specialist property and development lawyer. His work includes subdivision projects, expert opinions, body corporate issues, infrastructure, and local government law. Much of his work concerns the interface of property law, the RMA, and local government, with a particular interest in corporate body law.
Beyond his legal work, he has had extensive involvement in the property industry and in charities through governance roles with Property Council New Zealand, Survey & Spatial NZ, the Vibrant Hamilton Trust, Waikato Housing Initiative, and school boards of trustees.
FIONA MCNABB
Fiona has lived much of her life in small coastal communities and has witnessed the impact of rapidly rising house prices coupled with migration from urban settings to rural communities on housing affordability.
Fiona is passionate about supporting the work of agencies working to address the housing crisis, becoming involved as the Project Lead for the Whaingaroa Raglan Affordable Housing Project (WRAP) in 2017.
Fiona represents the small community voice on the Leadership Group for the Waikato Regional Housing Initiative and is a Xtreme Zero Waste Charitable Trust Board Member in Whaingaroa, Raglan. Additionally she is a Trustee Director for Community Energy Whaingaroa Board, a subsidiary company of the Xtreme Zero Waste Charitable Trust. She brings experience in board governance, project and teams management.
JENNY NAND
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Access to adequate housing is one of the fundamental human rights. That is the driver that has motivated me to join the WCLT. Access to affordable land is one of the key barriers to building affordable housing in the Waikato Region. Our Trust aims to focus on addressing the issue of affordable land. I strongly believe that alone we won’t be able to address the issue for the Waikato Region. So our mission is to work with our strategic partners to find an equitable, intergenerational solution to affordable housing.