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Mike Hosking reckons: Minimum wage increase will be terrible for everyone

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:55 am, April 9th, 2018 - 159 comments

Mike Hosking reckons that an increase in the minimum wage will increase housing unaffordability and cause job losses and business closures.

Labour ban letting fees

Written By: weka - Date published: 6:33 am, March 23rd, 2018 - 134 comments

A good start from Labour on rent reforms, but will their bigger plans be enough?

Collins: No one cares about National’s abject failure over housing

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:42 am, March 16th, 2018 - 111 comments

Judith Collins thinks that no one cares that National oversaw the creation of a significant housing crisis.

Housing needs a builder not a crusher

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:11 am, March 12th, 2018 - 82 comments

Phil Twyford has the perfect response to National’s claim that Judith Collins’ appointment as Housing Spokesperson would cause him to lose sleep.

Special laws for rich people

Written By: weka - Date published: 1:19 pm, February 24th, 2018 - 47 comments

Queenstown Lake District Council wants to protect the uber wealthy from Labour’s new overseas house buying ban.

Fletcher Chair resigns but directors retain huge fees despite staggering loss

Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 4:34 pm, February 14th, 2018 - 123 comments

Fletcher announces more huge losses but directors still laughing all the way to the bank

The Housing Crisis.

Written By: Guest post - Date published: 10:43 am, February 11th, 2018 - 154 comments

Can politics deliver?

The Froth Comes off The Beer

Written By: advantage - Date published: 8:00 am, January 5th, 2018 - 77 comments

Auckland appears to be following the trend set by Melbourne and Sydney of a softening in expected prices for selling houses.

The failure of “right to buy” policies

Written By: Matthew Whitehead - Date published: 3:03 pm, December 11th, 2017 - 19 comments

Not only did National’s policy to sell off state houses fail, but now we’ve found out a similar Thatcher policy in the UK just handed many social houses to private landlords. Should we consider making it harder to sell off state houses in New Zealand?

Nine years of National rule brought us …

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 11:01 am, December 11th, 2017 - 56 comments

One of the worst consequences of nine long years of National rule presented by that well known left wing periodical the Financial Times.

Twyford reverses National’s flawed methamphetamine housing policy

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 6:29 am, December 9th, 2017 - 71 comments

Phil Twyford has shown this new Government has a brain as well as a heart by halting National’s ridiculous state house methamphetamine policy where the presence of minuscule traces would result in eviction even though there was no proof the tenant was responsible and he has apologised to Robert Erueti for the harm caused.

“Such inexcusable neglect”

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:13 am, December 8th, 2017 - 39 comments

The Auckland housing crisis in graph form.

Phil Twyford: the future of housing in New Zealand

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:30 am, December 3rd, 2017 - 190 comments

The text of an important speech from Phil Twyford where he talks about the 6th Labour Government’s plans for housing.

The NZ Government passes Health Homes Guarantee Act

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:15 am, December 1st, 2017 - 119 comments

“Every New Zealander deserves a warm, healthy home to live in, and the Health Homes Guarantee Act will help ensure that”

Revisiting the Chinese-sounding-names story

Written By: weka - Date published: 6:15 am, November 25th, 2017 - 249 comments

Data journalist and former Herald reporter Harkanwal Singh talked recently about data literacy and diversity.

Bourgeoise meth

Written By: advantage - Date published: 7:44 am, November 21st, 2017 - 157 comments

The release of new valuation figures yesterday reinforced how addicted householders are to increasing real estate valuations, no matter what the cost.

Home Sweet Home

Written By: koreropono - Date published: 11:52 am, November 4th, 2017 - 23 comments

The changing face of New Zealand.

So there was a housing crisis after all

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:05 am, November 4th, 2017 - 403 comments

The briefing to incoming Housing Minister Phil Twyford shows clearly that a crisis in housing developed under National’s watch.

Labour plans to stop overseas purchases of residential properties

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:41 am, November 1st, 2017 - 192 comments

Labour has announced plans to prevent foreign residents from buying residential homes in New Zealand.

The mess that the new government inherits

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 11:47 am, October 23rd, 2017 - 51 comments

This post is too long to read. Its purpose is to serve as reference material, a “one stop” snapshot of where we are as a country. The mess that the new government inherits. The consequences of the nine long wasted years of National. The magnitude of the challenge ahead of us.

Books but no beds

Written By: Mike Smith - Date published: 6:11 pm, October 18th, 2017 - 19 comments

Most viewed story on the Guardian website today: “New Zealand library cracks case of missing books.” Turns out some of Auckland’s 23,000 homeless were hiding bookmarked books in odd places so they wouldn’t lose their place. The library will now keep their books safe. Good on them. Finding homes for homeless must be a high priority for Aotearoa’s next government.

Donkey Dick Duncan

Written By: Bill - Date published: 11:34 am, October 9th, 2017 - 318 comments

Gross political incompetence, not immigration, is what lies behind and beneath New Zealand’s infra-structure problems. Only a excited donkey’s dick waving in a stiff breeze might point accusingly towards immigrants and immigration as the problem.

“The Green Party is committed to reforming renting so that every house is a home”

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.

Bryan Bruce’s documentary ‘Who Owns NZ Now?’

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 9:33 am, September 13th, 2017 - 27 comments

Reviewed on Stuff: “Who owns New Zealand now? The NZ On Air-funded documentary that screened on Three on Tuesday, September 12 confronts the housing crisis head on and it’s an eye-opener.”

Stupid myths on immigrant construction workers

Written By: lprent - Date published: 9:16 am, September 8th, 2017 - 31 comments

One of the dafter myths about the current burgeoning immigration industry is that we need skilled immigrants for the construction industry. As usual the talkback idiots are wrong. We don’t get many. We need more. We need to get rid of the migrant dross to get them. A Kiwibuild quota is a good idea.