Tag: mike lee
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The Mayoral candidates and the living wage proposal
Photo (c) Jason Fell I attended the Living Wage People’s assembly this week in St Matthews in the City. The idea behind the meeting was to get Mayoral and Waitemata ward candidates to express their views on the living wage proposal as well as improved public transport services and rental accommodation standards. The organiser was Living Wage…
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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…