Yep.

Credibility outweighs integrity.

Had Danielle the appropriate degree or qualification...who knows?

The fact that what she does and how she does it works is immaterial...to many she'll be nothing more than a well intentioned amateur.

Likewise the Anglican Action…

I like that. And I can sympathise with having a dig at the pillagers.

One thing that still amuses me is "social justice warrior" used as a pejorative by mostly US geeky bigots. I always go…

Interesting speech at the March for Moko event in Hamilton yesterday from the missioner from the local Anglican Action. Karen Morrison Hume spoke about the "village" and the "village" being "pillaged" by material and corporate greed. She had more…

Translation "government funding to mitigate homelessness should go to wealthy parasites".

It's very John Key, isn't it. I have exactly the opposite approach when I donate to charity – I prefer…

I've been ridiculed, put down, advised by consultants that my trust is not corporate enough for government funding. But they just don't get it. Government should be funding these small grassroots trusts. They are the lifeblood of society.

The consultants want flash signs at the gate, a reception…

and Danielle's own homeless to advocate story.

Respect.

And passing through people on its way to the sea, where it poisons fish en masse. Humans really have been a shit addition to this planet.

Nah that's her deliberate ignorance and arselicking stupidity.
But nice of you to suggest she has a possible career after politics.

Wuchang rice.
jesuus! 9 million tons of plastic rice... and its getting eaten!

Or a bit of both. People start looking for excuses to claim that they…

If a bubble burst really is impending, I wager it'd be far too big to spin for whoever's in power. Either those who think "our PM is a…

But seriously I think they’re well past “the time a difficult or important decision must be made" and well into the phase where "an important change takes place, indicating either recovery or death" a "time of intense difficulty, trouble, or danger"…

"I would certainly not call it a crisis" she answered to a question by RNZ's Queenstown based reporter. She was there today, after avoiding RNZ and other media for four days, apparently not keen on answering any questions.

This time she…

http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/thepanel/audio/201801498/poverty-crisis-or-housing-crisis

'Poverty crisis or housing crisis?'

Economic commentator Grant Cleary saying it resembles the Irish bubble that burst.

It is out of control and will end badly is the assessment.

But it will offer little consolation to those already…

The Pukekohe area was the setting for many of the stories in Roderick Finlayson's unfortunately neglected Brown Man's Burden. The dispossessed Maori that Finlayson knew and wrote about in his…

We stopped off at the petrol station in Pukekohe a couple of weeks ago. Lots of lush growth in the rich soil....but also lots of lifestyle blocks peppering the foothills.

As an indication of the…

It's been said before, but much as a collapse would be Irish or Icelandic-level ugly, it's one of the few things not involving mass deaths that'll push Generation Rentier out of the housing market…

Would anyone happen to know of any…

Business as usual, and Key loves it, it is all going according to plan, fourth term ensured now.

All he has to do…

Not necessarily a bad thing if the results are good. But hey, who measures results? Too busy inserting caveats about intervention logics into purchasing agreements.

You have to run that through the bureaucratic anger translator to get the full impact of that. I'd guess at least three or four measured, cautious folk with eyes on what their bosses and minister would be prepared to accept wrote and reviewed that paper. Words…

Who knew markets wouldn't work in desperate asymmetric situations like emergency housing, eh?

It's starting to sound like they're stuck with policy settings that don't work. They have to go to the market and the market is enjoying a premium for taking poor people.

I suspect the current climate of woo over…

Work and Income are piss-poor negotiators, just like the current cabinet?

Once upon a time it…

What a shocking situation. Thanks for that link, at least that worked.…

Ditto, it seems, in Queenstown.

Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust 2016 renters' survey, in which 92 per cent of renters said housing affordability was a barrier to their long-term commitment to the area.
The full results were published yesterday.
Problems highlighted include crammed…

http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/mnr/mnr-20160519-0715-more_views_on_the_akl_land_issues-00.ogg

?

"seems bad" or is a "disaster" depending on where you sleep – in or out of doors.

The State House next to my Mum’s place sat…

Also "incoherent" and "unfair".

Bennett and Bill English. We don't know that they actually did nothing, but what they have been doing is starting to look like a policy fuckup of…

It seems WINZ do under this government drive people into poverty. Also did the New Zealand Herald reveal this a while…

If there ever needed to be an example of a government driving revenue to business at the ultimate expense of poor and…

I suspect John…

We live in “strange times”.

Who is that Minister for Broad-(Bored) Casting again?

Joining the queue at Work and Income: Where no one seems happy.

That was weird. While I don't want to contribute to any conspiracy theory, the sound didn't cut out abruptly... it was faded out by someone. Much strangeness.

A Work and Income employee gestures to a woman to come forward. Here, in front of the rest of the queue and anyone in the waiting room, her anguish must be laid bare. Pain…

It just seems so stupid that people eligible for social housing are being instructed to borrow money for paying what's apparently the full commercial rate…

By sanctioning green-field (as opposed to brown-field) housing development, Twyford and his colleagues are now free to draw forth from Labour’s honourable past the sort of planning ideas which, had they been implemented at the time they were developed (the late-1940s) would have…

Marc C...did you catch this on Natrad this am?

Around about 4.35 onwards....fella starts speaking about Wellington having to step up and deal to the speculators…

Seems a better payoff for any support you can offer them to do their work. No wonder donations and volunteering are declining for some political parties.

I'll bring my knitting.

We can sit there, like a couple of old crones.....cackling away...

http://www.ferdyonfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/tspimpernel011-e1354496778337.jpg

http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2016/05/a_great_policy_from_labour.html

Good grief, what is left of our "opposition"?

“Housing in Auckland is a complicated issue, but one things clear – urban sprawl is not the solution. We would encourage the Party to take a sensible approach to housing in Auckland by supporting the…

Messers Cesspool, Sewer and Associates
Excremental blockages eliminated, manure spread liberally...

That's a very good piece from Vernon Small.

I wonder if Messrs Hosking, Williams, Henry and Smith have invested in a new business venture?

Here it is.

The Christchurch City Council (CCC) is the second biggest landlord in NZ (after the State). So, any changes with…

Petition to forgive WINZ motel accommodation debt

Petition demanding government policy to specifically address homelessness

Possibly when the middle classes start sleeping in cars or otherwise losing jobs en masse. In any case, my idea of pitching tent cities in the leafy…

Good journos even.

I am sure…

That there's a newly created vacancy for the position could have something to do with it.

A lot of people have been saying they had no idea.

We need a credible alternative.

"Emergency housing beds gave 'false hope"

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=11640573

The Budget 2016 will have to be carefully dissected by the opposition, as it will again show, that most will be nothing more than rearranging the deck-chairs, by robbing Peter to pay Paul,…

Twyford has apparently been telling a public event this eve that his answer is yes to both.

The strategic geniuses that surround him seem utterly ignorant about what will happen when they join the govt…

the really obscene thing is that it was deliberately cut *below* that level by Ruthless Richardson, then not fixed for the nine years Labour were subsequently in government. Shame on both their houses.

"We've had decades of people thinking it's a home for life," she said.

So people who aren't rushing to leave their fixed rents in favour of a…

Leighton Smith used to be someone worth listening to, a long time ago now. I'm not unconvinced they're screwing with his meds…

And water's wet.

It is Newstalk ZB koolaid they drink every day you know.

Sorry just reread your comment – just a little frustrated at what seems to me like a lack of accuracy in the way Labour are operating at the moment (possibly related to lack of funds and resources), and also…

20,000 fewer state houses (per capita) than in 1991. 34,000 ppl in severe housing deprivation who need c.20,000 homes. You do the maths.

Response from Grant Robertson:

and they are more difficult build/obtain than sell. Nats sold 13,000 odd in 90s, we built/obtained 10,000ish…

This. It's a lovely demonstration of the gentle art of letting the Government off the hook.

Yes, I agree and sort of said…

What would happen if all that accomodation supplement money was redirected…

1. A journalist visits the household and speaks to…

He says:

1. We shouldn't build public housing and we should sell off what we have.

2. The accommodation supplement is awesome and solves all our problems.

3. We should build lots more public housing estates.

4. The accommodation…

Whereas your competingly cartoonish take on events keeps you trapped behind a goofy pseudonym. Pot-kettle.

Conclusion: Lee's a sellout and Smith is a raging hypocrite.

I think there is a place for a subsidy for single people in particular needing a…

Last night I worked till about 1.20 AM – I got up at 6.30 AM made daughter breakfast and her lunch – she then got ready for school –…

Is this the same house John Campbell and Labour MP Jenny Salesa talk about visiting (but don’t shown…