This week we have two nationally respected leaders of Community Housing providers, Cate Kearney or Otautahi Community Housing Trust (OCHT) and Jill Hawkey from Methodist Mission (MM). Both of the organisations they lead have been renting to low income member of our community for decades. In OCHT’s … [Read more...]
International warning on Climate Change:
International Scholars Warning on Societal Disruption and Collapse A public letter signed by over 250 scientists and scholars from 30 countries, calls on policy makers to engage more with the growing risk of societal disruption and collapse due to damage to the climate and environment. The … [Read more...]
Methodist Mission debate on the challenge to end poverty:
What will it take? What policies are needed?Is there the political will to make it happen? Hear and discuss the issues with our expert panel: Trevor McGlinchey (Ngāi Tahu), Executive Officer, NZ Council for Christian Social Services, and member of the Government's Welfare Expert Advisory … [Read more...]
The loss of democracy in Local Government:
Central Government politicians rarely understand Local Government. They like to blame Local Government for delaying housing permits, or whatever will get their names in the paper for looking like they are being strong. Every now and then parts of Local Government come unstuck, like Tauranga. … [Read more...]
The Mosque Royal Commission Report
In a fantastic report David Williams has summarised the Royal Commissions writing about the gunman. It finishes with this statement: …he committed cowardly mass murder, slaughtering unarmed and defenceless people, including a three-year-old, who were praying. He maimed, wounded and crippled many … [Read more...]
Here’s where New York was recently because of an ineffectual Covid 19 response…
It’s so easy for us to become complacent in our Island state, surrounded by water and isolated from the world. As a group of us celebrated a difficult year passing in a restaurant recently, we rejoiced that we could actually all be there together. This photo from New York taken recently reminds us … [Read more...]
The City Councillors who are leading action on Central City aren’t getting it right
I, like most of Christchurch ratepayers, are getting fed up with large property owners in the middle of our City holding us to ransom with their properties lying fallow. I applaud the City Council pushing for the properties to be used properly. It’s time for property owners to be taxed for … [Read more...]
How the rest of New Zealand housing compares with Greater Christchurch:
Just last week this interesting article on Canterbury’s housing was produced by Andy Fyers for BusinessDesk: How Canterbury built its way to affordable housing As surging property prices spread across New Zealand like wildfire in the past decade, even to lowly populated regions like … [Read more...]
Could an Independent Housing Commissioner be the Housing Jedi Knight that New Zealand needs?
Housing ideas from Brendon Harre: Brendon is currently overseas and has written this article on some ideas on housing. Read more here Could an Independent Housing Commissioner be the Housing Jedi Knight that New Zealand needs? I think it could be if the independent Reserve Bank governor … [Read more...]
Democracy and STV – why it is important
Nathaniel Herz-Edinger is part of a group in Christchurch who are getting signatures on a petition to get Christchurch City Council to hold a poll to consider changing our voting for CCC to STV. He explains his motivation here... Scroll down to how you can be involved A Story... Once upon … [Read more...]
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