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Padding pockets, not houses

Written By: - Date published: 12:45 pm, August 11th, 2009 - 44 comments

Just a month into the Government’s housing insulation programme and John Key has had to launch an inquiry into rorting by contractors who are taking the subsidy but also increasing their prices, and so pocketing a good part of the subsidy themselves rather than passing it on to the consumer as intended. That’s a bad …

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