Community Housing: Access to finance is a major impediment for the amazing groups involved in community housing. There have been two significant moves in the past few months where new ethical funds have moved into community housing. One is ACC has invested in CERO housing in Auckland and they … [Read more...]
This Week: Paul Cottam on Housing
We are starting to head toward February 22 2021. The 10th Anniversary of the earthquake which killed so many people. We want to travel down a positive path to discuss/debate future options for Greater Christchurch, and the South Island. We are now working our way through the list of issues … [Read more...]
Healthy Homes – Hovel Ready Homes
The National Party has announced that it will scrap the “healthy homes” initiative. The Green Building Council has objected to this calling the policy a “hovel ready plan”. Here’s what they wrote recently on this topic: The Green Building Council have called National’s reported … [Read more...]
What happens to political parties when they get into power:
This week there was a Webinar organised by the Community Housing Sector. All the political parties were invited to discuss Community Housing policies. They were all there; except Labour. Before the last election it was my job to arrange for all of the political parties to speak about Community … [Read more...]
Garry writes about housing…
I have written many times about housing. It’s because I think we should all be passionately committed to housing for all. It is a human right to have a home and we could, in this country, achieve this goal. If we had a will. There are many aspects to the housing market, and who provides these … [Read more...]
John Key is wrong about wealthy overseas investors being able to buy NZ property:
It’s understandable that the former PM was campaigning for his old Party when he spoke in Auckland last week. However, when he was also attempting to prop up property values so that the Bank that he chairs, ANZ, doesn’t have its investment portfolio collapse on them. His argument of wealthy … [Read more...]
The Christchurch community won’t thank Govt for proposed Urban Policy:
The Government announced a proposal for Urban Planning during the week. Here is an article which describes what is being … [Read more...]
Let’s make Housing an election issue:
I’m fed up with the two biggest political parties playing games with housing. I say this to them both. Stop it. Stop the pettiness. Be brave. Change your dialogue. Give the little person a fair suck on the sav. It is possible for us to achieve, with a population our size, decent housing for all. … [Read more...]
Otautahi Community Housing Trust new construction of units:
It was great to read this article in the Press about the opening of new units by Otautahi Community Housing Trust on Friday https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/residential/122023384/whats-a-new-social-housing-unit-really-like-in-2020. I have a conflict of interest on this Trust, as my … [Read more...]
Government intervention in the “market” could address housing challenges
The Government assisted the housing market post Christchurch earthquakes. It interfered with the market. Have a look at the gap between our housing affordability and the rest of NZ on the graph below which was in Newsroom this week. We always had a slight margin but this graph shows that it … [Read more...]
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