Haven Magazine

WHEN LESS IS MORE

Three years ago Luke and Rachel Foster grew tired of trying to keep their small children, Josiah and Jack, warm and healthy in the cold, damp houses they were renting in the overcrowded Tauranga market.

“It was freezing and frustrating,” Rachel remembers, “but it was almost impossible to rent any house, so having anything was better than nothing.”

It can’t have been easy for Luke’s parents, Roy and Ruth, watching from the sidelines, but the Foster family are nothing if not blue-sky thinkers.

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