Posts by Sacha
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Access: Some aspects of New Zealand’s…, in reply to
That there are not other groups of disabled people with high needs. Discussed on a previous thread.
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The idea that the government cannot build enough housing for everyone is garbage. Of course they can. What it will mean is that the public deficit will explode, but it can be done.
Didn’t Labour have their decade-long building programme fully costed as part of their detailed election policy? Can’t be any less affordable than giving ongoing top-skewed personal tax cuts and other things govts choose to invest in.
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the HIGHEST care needs
As I've said before, I’d caution against that assumption. It certainly doesn’t help collective action.
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Hard News: Housing, hope and ideology, in reply to
the survay places shoe ownership as an important poverty assessment tool
Decisions like that are professionally statistically validated and compared with similar government hardship surveys around the world (fact, based on having done some work with the people who made that survey).
I reckon they get some things wrong, but that's not one of them (opinion).
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Hard News: Housing, hope and ideology, in reply to
by linking to that survey, as if it equals a point, rather than giving his point of view
Fact, not opinion. People here can follow sources themselves. We all get things wrong from time to time, no need to get defensive about it.
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I welcome any history of the experience of the families and carers of disabled people over the timeframe Hilary covers here. Huge change from families being expected to support disabled relatives on the farm to putting them in state institutions.
Next chapter is the transition out of that, and yet to be written by us is the full flowering of our contribution.
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Hard News: Housing, hope and ideology, in reply to
Poverty sucks. And by the way, it has almost nothing to do with children rocking up to school in barefoot.
That is however one of the official measures in the ELSI living standards survey.
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Access: Some aspects of New Zealand’s…, in reply to
He's a hero
Indeed. Tried to buy copy online but defeated by website.
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Hard News: Housing, hope and ideology, in reply to
she a gold-diggeur
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Hard News: Housing, hope and ideology, in reply to
they who has the gold makes the rules
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