People who rent their home shouldn’t have to get sick or complain before the safety of their home is tested and guaranteed.
Written By: weka - Date published: 8:26 am, April 17th, 2024 - 85 comments
Having a decent home is a human right
Written By: weka - Date published: 6:10 am, July 3rd, 2023 - 66 comments
“Right now, the rental market more closely resembles a game of monopoly than a public good – and it’s landlords who hold all the cards. This didn’t happen by accident. For decades, governments have made rules to prioritise those who own property and failed to protect people who rent.”
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 11:01 am, June 30th, 2023 - 127 comments
“All four residents came down sick within the week and stayed sick until we moved out. Three of us could not move out until the end of the lease, which took two months. Two of the residents had throat swabs done, both coming back with lung infections of bacteria primarily found in the intestines.”
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:10 am, July 23rd, 2021 - 118 comments
People who rent their home shouldn’t have to get sick or complain before the safety of their home is tested and guaranteed.
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:05 am, September 4th, 2020 - 17 comments
Currently your politicians do NOT represent people who rent. But you all have a choice to vote for solutions that do!
Written By: weka - Date published: 12:27 pm, March 7th, 2020 - 163 comments
Changes to the Residential Tenancies Act have a few landlords threatening to quit the business.
Written By: weka - Date published: 10:27 am, November 18th, 2019 - 97 comments
The only way out of the housing crisis is for the state to mandate the right to a home.
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:15 am, September 26th, 2019 - 11 comments
Marama Davidson: renting has to be a valid way of life.
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:47 am, September 19th, 2017 - 29 comments
People who rent should have security so they can put down roots and benefit from being able to participate in their community.
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 12:51 pm, March 27th, 2017 - 58 comments
While much of the coverage of the housing crisis focuses on buyers, the situation facing renters is just as bad. Last week The Spinoff ran an excellent series on renting in NZ: “It’s getting desperate out there”.
Written By: Guest post - Date published: 8:11 am, March 12th, 2017 - 198 comments
“And when I saw that article in the NZ Herald this morning , in light of whats been happening to so many New Zealander family’s having to sleep in cars and the like over the past few years – I thought ”FUCK IT !!”… Im going to say something.”
Written By: Marty G - Date published: 11:11 pm, May 16th, 2010 - 71 comments
The tax changes that will soon be announced are characterised even by the Government as a ‘tax swap’. They are fiscally neutral. The tax burden will not fall. All that will change is who it will fall on. Most people end up neutral or slightly worse off from the GST and income tax changes. The rich get huge cuts, which renters will end up paying for. Who are the renters? The census tells us.
The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on preferences of the population which do not seem entirely rational nor serving their longer interests. ...
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