Category: Affordable Housing
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Is the Government’s infrastructure fund announcement enough?
National has announced at its Annual Conference new policy aimed at addressing homelessness. It is appalling that in a country such as New Zealand homeless should even be an issue, let alone a widespread one. At first glance the announcement looks interesting. But after checking out the detail I can’t help but think that the policy is…
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Why is Wilsher Village green not being used for housing?
I have been doing some door knocking lately. It is clear that housing is the issue that is most important to local people. And you would think that in these days of Auckland’s chronic housing crisis Auckland Council would be making sure that it can do everything possible to alleviate the hardship. One area I…
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The trouble with the Government’s National Policy Statement proposal
Housing is raging as an issue right now. And the Government is feeling the heat. Ordinary kiwis are becoming upset that in the land of milk and honey more and more are without access to shelter, that most basic of human needs. The Government’s approach has varied. For a long time it refused to accept that there…
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Labour’s Rural Urban Boundary announcement
The housing crisis has been at the centre of political attention for some time. It is clear that we have a crisis. There are too many people sleeping rough or living in their cars for it to be otherwise. This is not the New Zealand that we all aspire to live in. As David Slack elegantly…
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Commissioners for Auckland Council if the Unitary Plan is mucked up?
The politics of this has been simmering away for a while. There is a concerted battle between Central and Local Government to apportion blame for Auckland’s housing problems which are now a full blown crisis. The Unitary Plan debate is central. Whoever designed the system and the timeline was cruel. The job is immense, having to shoehorn eight district…