ok, but now you are saying the market is primary. I'm not sure how you are using the term arbitrary. There's nothing random about the propose rent freeze and it has rationales even if you disagree with them. In the housing market, this would mean investors...
Perhaps because this sort of accommodation effectively creates ghettos, which are not good for social cohesion or development as is currently the case in the likes of Rotorua. See the bit in the post where I said the against use examples of badly designed...
Please explain how the San Francisco situation relates to Auckland (no, I'm not reading links to parse your argument, I've done enough research writing the post, the onus is on you to make the argument and readers can follow the links if they want more). I...
The esoterics of whether housing is a fundamental human right is really something for governments to consider at the social housing level. Why? You've essentially made the argument that people have more of a right to passive income than they do to a home....
I have read the article – and reread it. My thoughts went instantly to experiences in that period. 1982 rent 22% of income 1984 rose to 36% of income (after freeze came off) Why did rent as % rise to 36%? was it because rents were still rising? This is ...
eg why didn't the government buy up motels and hostels during the pandemic for emergency and interim housing? Use it later for worker accommodation too. These are failures of imagination fueled by ideological attachments to old ways of working that are ...
In your comments today, you've consistently argued a specific housing crisis ideology without reference to the reality for poor people. So, rental controls for a few is not that helpful if it means less rentals overall, and more poor people homeless as a ...
I thought you implied that any reasonable person wouldn't be willing to own a rental if the government controlled rents more than they do already. And you didn't give a rationale for that idea. You also yet again side stepped the issue of helping poor ...
Anyone else remember Muldoon's wage and price freeze of 1982-84? https://teara.govt.nz/en/cartoon/25623/the-wage-and-price-freeze-1982-1984 Lead to the dumping of the then ruling party (National) and made inevitable Rogernomics. the 2020 6 month rent ...
mod note.
Ad's story is about the difficulties of renting to people when they've got multiple other problems going on. I have no doubt that Ad helped those people by not increasing rents.
You don't seem to disagree with the proposition that supply is the problem. Actually, I completely disagree with this proposition. The problem is that we consider houses primarily an investment rather than a human right and a home. Which is why you are ...
I am not sure where we are in Christchurch now, so far as housing supply is concerned. But, I don't think there is an oversupply anymore. This is the point you are missing. I'm not talking about supply. I'm talking about the rent people pay each week and ...
However, on a macro scale, we can see what happened to the housing market in Christchurch. Eventually, the supply side increased so much that house prices were hardly moving for a number of years. I wasn't up to date with rental prices over that time, but...
As I have pointed out previously, price controls cause shortages. The problem with rental price controls in a housing shortage is that it doesn't increase the supply of houses, which is the current problem. In fact, it is likely to exacerbate the shortage...
Firstly, landlords would have become even more picky about who they took as tenants. Secondly, rentals would have been allocated in a way that was not optimal for the recovery. For instance, landlords may have preferred to rent their houses to high income...
don't think a temporary rent freeze would scare the horses enough to wreck that. The pandemic rent freeze ran from March - September in 2020, an election year that Labour did well in.
Written By: weka - Date published: 10:47 am, February 3rd, 2023 - 45 comments
Categories: climate change, housing, human rights, sustainability, tenants' rights
Tags: auckland, flooding, renters united
You know how people like the Greens and climate activists bang on about the connection between social issues and environmental issues? And why Just Transition matters? Well, here's New Zealand's first major example visible to the mainstream: the climate-…
how much support does he have from the councillors?
Needs to be New Zealand.
thing I want to know is if the effect is from Vit D irrespective of Vit D in the blood, or if they're using supplementation as a measure (presumably because it's easier than testing everyone). And whether this matters for NZ given that the health system ...
won't that be a full council decision?
another reasonably important system failure. I'm assuming the bus this morning wasn't in an emergency situation like on Friday?
I guess I'm also aware of the anti-Green sentiment on the coast, and the degree to which is it is conservative. Not everyone obviously and not all conservatives are climate deniers by any means. But people in conservative areas are voting in councils that ...
there are four councils on the West Coast https://www.localcouncils.govt.nz/lgip.nsf/wpg_url/Profiles-Councils-by-region-West-Coast These were a quick google. I just remember various events and responses in the news. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/416440/...
good lord, have to resort to TV news, https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/02/01/bus-driver-filmed-taking-on-auckland-floodwaters/
link not showing, try this, https://media.scribblelive.com/2023/1/31/4d8566b4-b65f-4215-9136-9a00c5b22918.mp4
Someone will have to explain this to me. Are the alternate bus routes not laid out? Or the authorities don't have a map yet of flooded routes? Because this looks dangerous in a number of ways. https://www.facebook.com/debbie.burrows033/posts/...
O'Conner's electorate, West Coast-Tasman, includes a bunch of hippy towns in the Nelson/Golden Bay area as well as the Coast. Look at the Mayors and Councillors on West Coast proper.
Beautiful. Boundaries ❤️
I've deleted your quote without the link. You can repost with the link if you want.
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