Public Address | Cafe | Speaker: Crowding and displacement in Auckland

Sacha

Sat, 07 Jun 2014 19:24:50 +1200

it's our financial system's overseers over many years who are responsible for the housing bubble, not council planners. But carry on the supply-side nonsense if it brings you comfort.

Swan

Sat, 07 Jun 2014 19:10:20 +1200

"All roads, I suspect, lead back to the housing bubble and those who've wilfully cartelised it."

Agreed. Roger Blakeley being the ring leader of course.

Kumara Republic

Thu, 05 Jun 2014 16:51:48 +1200

All roads, I suspect, lead back to the housing bubble and those who've wilfully cartelised it.

Moz

Thu, 05 Jun 2014 15:44:41 +1200

need more houses in Auckland, fewer in job-poor provincial towns.

yes, but I thought the official plan was to remove state houses from where they're more valuable in favour of building a few where're they're lower value. Which I assumed meant in the job-poor areas with low land prices (because…

Brent Jackson

Thu, 05 Jun 2014 13:58:42 +1200

HNZ does seem to be making moves to turn at least some of their 3-brm houses into 5-brm ones by adding 2 attachment bedrooms to the back door.

Ian Dalziel

Thu, 05 Jun 2014 13:49:56 +1200

Laissez-faire, Lessee fear...
Privatise the suburbs !!
– as the Government moves to distance itself from social housing, could 'the Sir Owen Glen Innes District for Lessee Mortals' be just over the horizon?

Sacha

Thu, 05 Jun 2014 13:25:43 +1200

a high-employment region (where the houses are now) to a low-employment region (where the new state houses are)

other way around in our case, I believe – need more houses in Auckland, fewer in job-poor provincial towns.

Sacha

Thu, 05 Jun 2014 13:24:18 +1200

Doesn't this govt also have an explicit target of no more than 15% of residents of any place being state tenants? That means removing many from current enclaves.

Russell Brown

Thu, 05 Jun 2014 13:05:44 +1200

If the government was proposing to build more appropriate houses instead it would make a certain amount of sense. “move away for a year while we build a 1-bedroom unit here” would be fine. But they’re not even doing that, they’re just going to keep knocking them down and selling…

Moz

Thu, 05 Jun 2014 12:24:45 +1200

That is a really unfortunate juxtaposition, the two issues look bad when put together. Most blatantly, kicking one woman out of a three bedroom house so that a family of 12 can move into it, instead of the three bedroom house they have now, makes no sense. But that's not…

Public Address

Thu, 05 Jun 2014 12:24:45 +1200

Discussion from blog post.