At this time it is essential to focus on what makes up the housing system. The whole process from purchasing land to the family finally walking through a completed home. The system is unnecessarily complex and there are groupings within the whole system who have no financial interest in changing. … [Read more...]
Last Week – Community Housing
It was fantastic to have two leaders in the New Zealand Community Housing network speaking to the Tuesday Club. We are indeed lucky to have them both leading their organisations in this City. Their presentation was comprehensive and the conversation was supportive and encouraging. Maybe we should … [Read more...]
Otautahi Community Housing Trust responds to inaccurate Press coverage:
You will recall that last week there was a link in the Tuesday Club notes to this article 'I can’t wait to drop dead': Elderly couple desperate to leave freezing, mouldy flat | Stuff.co.nz. At the time I wondered if in fact this was an accurate article. This week Cate Kearney, who was one of the … [Read more...]
Garry writes 15 Dec 2020
As we gratefully head towards the end of a very trying year for everybody, I return to my quest to discuss the need for us to expect politicians to exercise courage in their deliberations. David Lange was a veritable mine of witty comments, every time he spoke. One I liked was when he … [Read more...]
This week’s speakers – Community Housing…
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...]
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...]
Garry writes 8 Dec 2020
I have been fascinated how the media has spasms of enthusiasm about topics, and then they move onto another. It’s all about one thing for a few weeks and then they move onto another. It’s often shallow analysis because they just don’t have the staff to do proper investigation. It’s clickbait … [Read more...]
There’s a worrying trend for communities to resist essential new public rental housing:
I commented recently on what I saw as a growing resistance to supporting new housing being in suburbs Housing challenges in suburbs: - The Tuesday Club at Smash Palace. I worry that this is going to be the latest “click bait” campaign for the Press. It’s just lazy journalism getting a group of … [Read more...]
Housing options which are tantamount to elderly farming:
While I’m on about housing, if there’s one thing which makes my blood boil it’s the growth of Retirement villages. It’s driven by greed and I welcome the report below sent to Poto Williams calling for a review of the conditions of entry, and exit, from these villages. People might query my … [Read more...]
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