Posts Tagged ‘state housing’
The State Housing review
Written By: - Date published: 10:35 am, October 26th, 2010 - 20 comments
It’s not surprising that the Housing Shareholders Advisory Group came to the conclusions it did. Despite its name, the group included no state house tenants. It was a group packed with private social housing providers, hand-picked to deliver the conclusion that these groups should be given control of state houses.
A new state housing agenda
Written By: - Date published: 2:31 pm, July 21st, 2010 - 35 comments
The country is short about 10,000 houses and many of the houses we do have (mostly privately owned rentals) are unhealthy. The housing shortage was a driver of the last housing boom and is still keeping house prices excessively high, while poor quality housing means higher health costs, more sick days, and kids that are sick so often it disrupts their education. It would be sensible on every level to build the extra houses we need, and the government should take the lead role.
Don’t let State Houses become private slums
Written By: - Date published: 12:30 pm, October 16th, 2009 - 2 comments
The other day on Red Alert, Chris Hipkins related an interesting story about how National’s last round of State House sales went awry: Recently I went to visit a state house tenant in their home to talk about some problems they had been having with Housing New Zealand. They wanted their home heating and insulation […]
Sell state houses? Not like this
Written By: - Date published: 9:42 am, September 16th, 2009 - 25 comments
National has announced that it will begin offering to sell 3,800 state houses to tenants living in them on market rents. I don’t automatically oppose selling state houses but there needs to be four conditions: Housing NZ must use all revenue from sales to buy new houses – we don’t want the amount of housing […]
Welfare for whom?
Written By: - Date published: 9:28 am, September 11th, 2009 - 61 comments
Remember the iconic photos of the first Labour Prime Minister Michael Joseph Savage and his cabinet celebrating the introduction of State Housing by carrying furniture into the first home at 12 Fife Lane, Miramar? State housing in New Zealand was set up to provide relief for low income tenants, from insecurity and rack renting by […]
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