Posts by Joe Wylie
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Polity: House-buying patterns in Auckland, in reply to Andre,
dealing with foreign owners who are non-resident
It seems that the landlord is too cheap to engage a letting agent, who once upon a time would have been a tenant's first avenue of recourse. While it may be of little comfort to tenants, a high profile neglected property sometimes engages the interest of the media. If this ongoing mess is any indication, it then becomes a race (no pun intended) to claim the moral high ground by accusing your opponents of racism.
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Envirologue: Swamp Monsters – the…, in reply to Alfie,
Christine Murdoch from July 6.
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Speaker: Identification strategy: Now…, in reply to Katharine Moody,
Kan. My bad.
Katharine, I'm not taking sides on this. I'm simply dismayed that Kan, a writer I generally admire, joins so many others in ignoring the growing proportion for whom, regardless of ethnicity, home ownership is a fading dream. If his message goes 'over their heads' it's because it's irrelevant to their situation, not because of any intellectual shortcomings on their part. If I've made that a little clearer then I regret not having said so sooner.
BTW I've been a homeowner. I even had a stake in a modest commercial property once, but sometimes these things don't last. While it might not be the commonest set of threads in life's tapestry, IMHE there's a bit of it about.
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Speaker: Identification strategy: Now…, in reply to Katharine Moody,
So you are part of this group - but you're smarter than most of them? Is that what you mean? Who's Khan?
Raybon Khan. As for the rest of your questions, bothering to answer them would have about as much point as asking you whether you really are running for village idiot around here.
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Speaker: Identification strategy: Now…, in reply to Katharine Moody,
Seems like another example of typecasting to me? Just what category do these "significant and growing proportion of NZers " belong to? As it seems to me you have 'profiled' them into some kind of homogeneous grouping that are supposedly less intelligent than you (because the post referred to did not go over your head)?
As a non-property owner and longtime renter I happen to be very much a part of this group - not that that's any of your goddam judgmental business. When Khan reduces his case to what one might be prepared to pay for the 'privilege' of living in one's homeland, he's blissfully ignoring the reality of those who are simply unable to pay.
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Speaker: Identification strategy: Now…, in reply to simon g,
(I liked Raybon Kan'http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-identification-strategy-now-its-personal/?i=100#post343710s piece, although (because?) it clearly went over lots of heads).
I'd say it went right over the heads of the significant and growing proportion of NZers whose names don't, and probably never will, appear on a property title deed.
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OnPoint: My last name sounds Chinese, in reply to Q Williams,
I just find it hilarious personally that suddenly a lot of those on the right are suddenly falling all over themselves defending minorities in NZ. How unusual....
There were a few examples turned up in Dirty Politics. Donning the sheep's clothing must seem like a splendid wheeze at the time one does it.
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Polity: House-buying patterns in Auckland, in reply to Swan,
It is only bad for would be property investors, but is that policy relevant?
As long as you think of aspiring first-time homeowners as schmucks who failed to get with the brave new agenda, no problem.
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Polity: House-buying patterns in Auckland, in reply to Stephen Judd,
questioning the underpinnings of our current economic arrangements can only be done in the gentlest way before you're considered crazy.
Or you take the path of terminal political geekery. Why Barnett's bizarre brainfart generated so little reaction compared to Twyford's own goal is outside of my limited comprehension. As far as I know, it's not something that Barnett's resiled from yet.
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Polity: House-buying patterns in Auckland, in reply to Sue,
Nobody questioned whether or not this tower of shit stuck on shit was a shitty thing to do.
Now every time there's an attempt to flush the damn thing someone thinks they've spotted a piece of Lego embedded in the muck.
