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  • Kyle Matthews,

    Of course the government endorsed the state house model building, they built thousands of them.

    That doesn't stop anyone else building anything different, any more than lockwood kitset homes stop you building something shaped like an igloo. You'll just pay more to do something different.

    Since Nov 2006 • 6243 posts Report

  • Shep Cheyenne,

    We've talking 1950s NZ.
    It was the difference between building and not building. And they would stop you from building an igloo to live in.

    http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/construction-and-sale-of-state-houses-1938-2002

    In addition to the capitalisation of the family benefit for a deposit. If you wanted to build your own you needed to follow the prescribed plan or your mortgage would not be approved.

    Since Oct 2007 • 927 posts Report

  • Shep Cheyenne,

    I knew the 80s were brash and tasteless but really...

    http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/rata-vine-drive

    Since Oct 2007 • 927 posts Report

  • Shep Cheyenne,

    I realise this just intrests me but here goes ...
    Otara St Fendalton State House is Jerry Brownlees office. Mandeville St was called Chinamens Lane and leads directly onto the new Buddhist Centre on Riccarton Road (great moon cakes & rose nip tea). This is the same street that the Asian student had the home invasion and got bashed up.

    http://library.christchurch.org.nz/Heritage/LocalHistory/Fendalton/statehouse.asp

    Since Oct 2007 • 927 posts Report

  • Kyle Matthews,

    We've talking 1950s NZ.

    In addition to the capitalisation of the family benefit for a deposit. If you wanted to build your own you needed to follow the prescribed plan or your mortgage would not be approved.

    OK, well I own a 1950s house, and it doesn't follow a state house model. Nor do thousands of other houses built around New Zealand at the time. My street actually has a number of ex-Railways houses on it. They didn't require consent for their houses at all - they had an exemption.

    Any modernist house in New Zealand was built in the era of state housing, and none of them are anything like state houses. Most of them would have been built with mortgages, and requiring normal planning consent.

    And making it easier for state house tenants to buy their homes, doesn't make it harder for other people to build their own. They've not being deprived of anything though state housing.

    Since Nov 2006 • 6243 posts Report

  • Shep Cheyenne,

    Kyle - An exemption is indicitive of the srtength of govt control. No mortgage required for a Railway house either.

    The diiference would be in the deposit you required and even the interest rate charged if going away from the State House Plan thus building your own home was out of the reach of many if not building to govt the prescription.

    Hmm what an egalatarian line...

    "Until the late 1940s Maori were excluded from mainstream state housing, on the grounds that their presence would allegedly 'lower the tone' of state housing communities and because few could afford the rent."

    http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/culture/we-call-it-home/outside-the-mainstream

    Since Oct 2007 • 927 posts Report

  • giovanni tiso,

    Now I'm looking forward to a cold, damp Aro Valley winter.

    So is that where the Library of Babel is located now? Cool. One hopes to bump into you, one does.

    Wellington • Since Jun 2007 • 7473 posts Report

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