Government will now arrest the homeless that they have created!
The Government’s move toward criminalising homelessness in New Zealand follows major cuts to emergency housing and welfare. Is this policy solving poverty — or punishing it?
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Wellington drowning in sh*t – how’s 3 Waters looking now?
Wellington’s sewage crisis reignites debate over scrapping Three Waters. Was ditching water reform ideological sabotage with real-world consequences?
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Celebrating 2 years of Chris Luxon as PM is a measure of how far we have fallen as a country
It’s been two years of Chris Luxon as Prime Minister and those 24 months have become a measure of how…
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The housing crisis: NZers deliver their verdict
New Zealanders appear to have rejected National’s on-going carping at the Coalition government’s ‘Kiwibuild’ programme.
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Children’s Commissioner Judge Andrew Becroft calls for a fairer, egalitarian New Zealand
This weekend (26/27 May), two disparate voices called for a more egalitarian society in our country. The voices of Children’s Commissioner, Judge Andrew Becroft, and Chief Executive of the Employers & Manufacturers Association (Northern), Kim Campbell, both made statements on TV3’s The Nation and TVNZ’s Q+A (respectively), that only a few years ago would have been heresy to neo-liberal orthodoxy.
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The Mendacities of Ms Amy Adams – 2,000 more state houses?!
Soon after criticising the Coalition for “hiding debt in SOEs” – a capital offense that National was guilty of in 2009, and which contributed to bankrupting Solid Energy by 2015 – National Party’s finance spokesperson, Amy Adams, was at it again.
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National’s housing spokesperson Michael Woodhouse – delusional or outright fibber?
The recent Housing Report reveals National’s ineptitude when it came to homelessness and housing unaffordability. Even retiring baby-boomers do not escape National’s incompetence when it came to unrestrained migration; insufficient housing stock; spiralling speculation; and poorly-planned infrastructure to cope with a rising population;
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***Update*** Family of five, including six month old baby – accommodation crisis
. . Hutt Valley, 29 June – As reported on Tuesday (27 June) a woman, “S” – and her family,…
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EXCLUSIVE: Message to Minister Adams: Family of five, including six month old baby – about to live in a van…
In 1 days’ time, a family of five in Upper Hutt will become homeless. They are in the final week of a 90 Day notice to vacate.
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National continues to panic on housing crisis as election day looms
National’s “grand plans” for 220 new social and transitional places remains woefully short of the 1,138 houses that National sold off to IHC’s Accessible Properties at the end of March. It is also unclear what is meant by ” transitional places”. Are these actual houses? Or motel units, à la Auckland-style;
