Another ‘aggressive recovery’?

• Zetetic
• 12 years ago
• Categories: disaster
• Tags: christchurch earthquake, christchurch rebuilding

Key upbeat about quake recovery work – Headline

Man, if that guy was any more up beat, he would be speedcore. Well, here’s a couple of numbers that might sober Mr Smile and Wave:

• 28,200 fewer jobs in Canterbury now than a year ago. 1 in 11 jobs lost. More if you could exclude quake-related jobs.
• Net international emigration from Canterbury, 3,634 by December. That’s like a family of four leaving every eight hours for ten months.
• 5,086 building consents for new or altered homes in Canterbury in 2011 vs 6,088 in 2010. 100,000 houses damaged or destroyed.

If you want to see a real recovery, look at Japan. In Christchurch’s Red Zone, you can still see plates of food, abandoned in February.

Who remembers when those idiot rightwing economists were talking about the quakes as an economic boon?