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Another Nick Smith fail in Auckland
Written By: - Date published: 2:53 pm, April 13th, 2016 - 9 comments
How’s Nick Smith doing on the Budget plan to round up 500ha of Auckland land for housing? The answer won’t shock you!
2800 state houses “transferred”
Written By: - Date published: 10:10 am, April 1st, 2016 - 40 comments
Yesterday 2800 state houses in Auckland were “transferred” to a new authority, which plans to “reduce the number of people the State is supporting”.
House Tales.
Written By: - Date published: 3:01 pm, March 22nd, 2016 - 32 comments
If ‘home is where the heart is’ then what’s the story when everything’s heartless?
Here we go again – from leaky homes to porous pipes
Written By: - Date published: 12:32 pm, March 21st, 2016 - 24 comments
As if leaky buildings was not enough, New Zealand’s lax standards and lack of inspection may be contributing to new problems in the Building Industry.
Hickey on Auckland housing
Written By: - Date published: 7:32 am, March 4th, 2016 - 73 comments
Bernard Hickey’s piece from last Sunday on Auckland Housing is a depressing read.
Christchurch, keyisms and this state we’re in.
Written By: - Date published: 3:18 pm, February 24th, 2016 - 86 comments
There was a gathering in Cathedral Square in Christchurch on Sunday the 21st of February.
A one and a half hour recording of the event was put on youtube. Speaking begins at around 13min.
Is RBNZ ignoring deflation bogey?
Written By: - Date published: 6:52 am, January 29th, 2016 - 71 comments
Is Reserve Bank Governor Graeme Wheeler so concerned about the bogey of Auckland’s housing bubble that he is underestimating an equally nasty bogey – deflation? Deflation will certainly cure the problem of the property bubble, but that cure will be at a terrible cost.
Another housing policy screwup?
Written By: - Date published: 1:39 pm, January 22nd, 2016 - 38 comments
Bennet’s proposal to incentivise / coerce state housing applicants to leave Auckland for housing elsewhere seems to have hit a snag…
The problem with free market capitalism
Written By: - Date published: 11:16 am, January 9th, 2016 - 249 comments
This morning’s Herald contains a story about a young man who with a family gift has managed to purchase eleven houses over the past five years and can afford to pay World of Warcraft all day.
Treachery and silly season political snippets
Written By: - Date published: 7:41 am, December 23rd, 2015 - 61 comments
There’s still a few MPs “on duty”. Their function is to maintain the semblance of active government and to roll out a bunch of announcements they hope will escape full scrutiny.
The great future tide of homelessness
Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, December 3rd, 2015 - 156 comments
The Salvation Army, and not the Government, has pointed out some very worrying trends relating to home ownership in New Zealand.
How many prospective state house tenants hate birds chirping?
Written By: - Date published: 8:19 am, November 26th, 2015 - 46 comments
The answer is at least one.
Housing NZ refers homeless to CAB for emergency housing
Written By: - Date published: 1:30 pm, November 24th, 2015 - 28 comments
If this was not so tragic it would be absurd. Radio New Zealand has reported this morning that CABs are receiving referrals from Housing New Zealand of people requiring emergency housing.
Hikoi for Homes.
Written By: - Date published: 9:45 am, November 20th, 2015 - 12 comments
Saturday in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.
Homeless children
Written By: - Date published: 12:55 pm, November 18th, 2015 - 75 comments
RNZ covered a Salvation Army report on housing this morning. These figures are a national disgrace.
Paula Bennett and the social housing crisis
Written By: - Date published: 7:00 am, October 23rd, 2015 - 64 comments
Paula Bennett has uncovered the most significant risk that New Zealand faces. Or has she?
Pressure mounts to force Auckland to open up land
Written By: - Date published: 1:57 pm, October 22nd, 2015 - 45 comments
Serious Fraud Office, Productivity Commission, Council failings, under-supply of houses, Developer Greed… a recipe for disaster
Lucky Labour – disgraceful Speaker
Written By: - Date published: 7:01 am, October 16th, 2015 - 37 comments
Three of the four member’s bills drawn yesterday were sponsored by Labour leaders. What followed was one of the most disgusting maneuvers ever pulled by this government, justifying the headline – Nats play politics while Kiwi kids die in homes.
Labour to defy TPP on property ownership?
Written By: - Date published: 9:46 am, October 7th, 2015 - 165 comments
If this report is accurate it opens an interesting can of worms!
Housing Corp’s privatisation by stealth
Written By: - Date published: 7:47 am, September 22nd, 2015 - 15 comments
One News has discovered that over the past five years Housing Corporation has divested itself of 2,472 houses at the same time that the need for social housing has escalated.
The strip mining of Housing Corporation
Written By: - Date published: 7:53 am, September 9th, 2015 - 82 comments
At a time where the need for social housing has possibly never been greater the Housing Corporation is to pay the Government a dividend of $118 million, the third largest in the Corporation’s history.
In face of share market meltdown, Govt’s options limited
Written By: - Date published: 7:15 am, August 26th, 2015 - 55 comments
John Key says New Zealand has options in the face of a share market meltdown and is not like Greece (well that’s a relief). Simon Louisson asks how real are John Key’s options? Thanks to this Government’s profligate past spending, including irresponsible tax cuts, our options have narrowed drastically.
Housing selloff – obsessive secrecy and power
Written By: - Date published: 8:35 am, August 19th, 2015 - 21 comments
National’s selloff of our state houses is yet another example of its two main obsessions, secrecy and unaccountable power.
Look at the future of families
Written By: - Date published: 7:48 am, August 14th, 2015 - 51 comments
In South Korea the colliding intersection between economics, tradition and demographics is probably at its most extreme. However the same kinds of effects are being seen all over the developed world, and increasingly in parts of the underdeveloped world – and here.
Paula Bennett feeds raw meat to the base about Social Housing waiting lists
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, July 26th, 2015 - 65 comments
Paula Bennett wants us to believe that people on Housing Corporation’s waiting lists are choosy.
So much for the competitive market
Written By: - Date published: 7:02 am, July 23rd, 2015 - 18 comments
I love how right-wing ideology is just some thing that can be switched on and off at will. Case in point, ownership of state houses…
The great state house sell off – small groups need not apply
Written By: - Date published: 12:19 pm, July 21st, 2015 - 10 comments
Treasure has indicated that the sell off of State housing should occur in minimum lots of a hundred houses. Only large wealthy organisations need apply and claims that the sale was about the building of capacity amongst local social service providers cannot be reconciled with this.
NRT: Facilitating tax cheats
Written By: - Date published: 4:25 pm, July 20th, 2015 - 15 comments
I/S at No Right Turn on a reported rush in demand ahead of new rules for real estate transactions aimed at cracking down on tax cheats and speculators.
National doesn’t know what it’s doing on foreign buyers
Written By: - Date published: 11:41 am, July 20th, 2015 - 158 comments
National on a foreign buyers register: Smith says no, English says yes, Collins says maybe, Key says – bad Labour!
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