Posts by Sacha
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If community organisations, councils and iwi lock up their own limited capital in housing, the main harm is them not being able to invest in other more productive things like local business, training and community development actitivies.
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And does the Housing Minister really think the likes of the Sallies have the dosh to take on such big housing assets?
No, he’s counting on them having to partner with organisations with capital to invest.
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Hard News: Housing, hope and ideology, in reply to Lucy Telfar Barnard,
because the existence of the supplement would make investment in new rental stock more attractive, or some such BS.
And we're getting the same fact-free rubbish this time around. The new wrinkle is that PPPs between community organisations and financiers will add some rigour to the business model of subsidy-guaranteed income streams and untaxed capital gains. And somehow magically incentivise building new stock (even though rents will stay higher if supply stays below demand).
Both English and Key are not stupid enough to actually believe this, so it seems more like another dishonest ploy to both reduce the size of government in our economy (as is their declared goal ) and to funnel more public money into the pockets of the global finance sector.
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for new developments including multilevel places to include a percentage of low cost/social housing
A notion our freshly re-elected PM described as “economic vandalism” when planned for the current Hobsonville Point PPP. Don’t hold your breath on that front.
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Thank you Craig. Can it apply to social movements rather than professional orgs?
(Sorry the Reply linking system is broken at the moment for me).
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occupational culture
can you explain this further for me – not a term I’ve seen.
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Hard News: The uncooling of the inner West, in reply to Tinakori,
Current prices are probably more a function of various planning policies and transport issues
And fiscal policy settings.
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Hard News: The uncooling of the inner West, in reply to BenWilson,
think there was a real dynamism, a sense of people actually in control of their society and shaping as they liked. They consciously chose to live in poor areas and improved them because the liked something fundamental about the character of the areas, as well as liking the prices.
I don't know how the change came about, though.
Houses went from being mainly homes in a social setting to mainly investments in a portfolio. Financialisation.
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Access: Some aspects of New Zealand’s…, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Hope more people dive in and have a go at writing their versions/stories
Same. Thank you for getting us started.
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The performance of regulatory agencies is part of it, contract obligations are part of it, but more broadly there is a curious passivity not obvious in other disadvantaged groups. A high value placed on being a good boy lest matron withdraw privileges, that sort of thing.
So I'm not confident better advocacy is simply a matter of structure or funding. Community culture needs to change. Fortunately younger generations have different expectations.
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