As I biked past the old St Luke’s site in Manchester Street the other day I spotted a sign advertising the site for sale. I looked up the advert for the property and read this: Deadline Private Treaty 28th Feb 2023 16:00:00 (Unless sold prior) This prime land holding has been owned by the … [Read more...]
Housing Intensification – a call to get this right, not just for homeowners, but for young people…
On March 1st Council are voting on Housing Intensification. Four young candidates who stood in the local elections last year (Finn Jackson, Cashmere Community Board; Hannah Watkinson, Heathcote Community Board; Benny Gilling, Spreydon Community Board; and Harrison McEvoy, Innes Community Board) sent … [Read more...]
Housing Dec 2022
Between now and the early parts of the New Year we will carefully analyse how we got to our current disastrous situation with housing. This week I will set the scene by mercilessly stealing from this magnificent article on housing by Rebecca Macfie … [Read more...]
Housing as a Human Right
This is the first notification about the public meeting with the Chief Human Rights Commissioner which will be held in Christchurch on 12 December at 7pm at the Transitional Cathedral. Next week I will write an article on Housing. … [Read more...]
This weeks top links 8 November 2022
Complex conversations on complex questions - deliberative democracy in practice An excellent audio - "how the techniques of deliberative, as opposed to participatory democracy can be used to close the gap between public perceptions of major issues and their potential solutions. The discussion was … [Read more...]
Saving our food growing land from development..
Great to finally see some regulation around protecting valuable food growing soils. Here’s what RNZ has produced on housing: https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-detail/story/2018859038/the-councils-pushing-back-on-housing-density-rules Here’s what Bernard Hickey wrote in Kaka this … [Read more...]
Last week’s speakers – Community Finance initiatives…
Last week James Palmer and Paul Gilberd gave us a finance 101 talk on the clever structure, Community Finance, they have developed to assist community agencies obtain finance to build homes for the poor. This organisation, which complies with financial regulations, has developed over the past few … [Read more...]
This week’s speakers: James Palmer and Paul Gilberd
This week we have a return of two speakers who have spoken to us before - still on ZOOM. They are from Community Finance, an organisation which has grown impressively over the past few years financing community agencies which are working to house the poor in New Zealand. Community housing agencies … [Read more...]
3 Storey Housing as of right Bill
The Parliamentary Select Committee has reported back on submissions on this Bill. The length of the consultation process was a farce and Eugenie Sage deserves our congratulations on even getting anything through. Newsroom reported: The committee, chaired by Green Party MP Eugenie Sage, has … [Read more...]
Labour and National parties 3 storey housing proposals have mostly been badly received
Remember a few weeks ago how Megan Woods and Judith Collins stood proudly, side by side, and announced a Bill which would be promoted by both the Labour and National. This would allow three storeys of housing on a site as of right? Well, the Bill is now in parliament, and it has been slammed by all … [Read more...]
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