Posts by Sacha
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Southerly: Liveblog: Moving House (Literally), in reply to Hebe,
Good point. However I doubt this is about mental health services other than (politically) low-impact ones. Plenty of less fraught services that would benefit from sharing infrastructure/admin and easier access to families.
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Capture: Howling at the Moon, in reply to Steve Barnes,
aargh, my eyes
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OnPoint: Student Loans are Loans (Duh.), in reply to Lucy Telfar Barnard,
Not exactly a "closing the gaps" type policy then.
It is consistent with the current govt's ideology to make sure most resource of any kind goes to those who already have more of it. The theory is that it's more effective for society to invest in the already-successful. These folk oddly look very much like the ruling class and who they hang out with. Any opposition movement who can't make hay from that..
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Southerly: Liveblog: Moving House (Literally), in reply to Ian Dalziel,
along with social services
Interesting. Co-location with school-based hubs has a lot to recommend it. However, this is bound to be a PPP under this government's thinking, so money will be siphoned away from actually providing services. And the contracts will make it very expensive for any future governments to change if they want to.
It seems to me that covenants are going to bequeath an urban planning nightmare to the future of Christchurch/Canterbury.
much tlike that, yes.
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Southerly: Liveblog: Moving House (Literally), in reply to Hebe,
On the convention centre: the Council is calling for submissions on the City Plan and asking residents to state which option they believe to be best
Why bother. Yesterday CERA announced Boffa Miskell and others as responsible for the master planning of such locations in the next couple of months.
snap, Ian
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Southerly: Liveblog: Moving House (Literally), in reply to David Haywood,
an interesting analysis of the covenants issue here:
Thanks. Eric is right to link this to the overall housing market, but his neoliberal ideology doesn't take him far enough. He settles for the fixation of Hugh Pavletich, the late Owen McShane and other fellow travellers on the notion that any planned urban limits are a blight on free markets. Which always work perfectly, of course, just like how that subdivision for relocated old houses has existed for ages. And how there are no homeless Cantabrians. Remember this is the guy who advocated doubling the price of petrol after the big quake as a rational way to eke out supplies.
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Southerly: Liveblog: Moving House (Literally), in reply to Hebe,
I think the answer lies with the city council approving subdivisions that impose restrictive covenants.
So true. CERA would quickly encounter legal resistance if they now tried unpicking hundreds of private legal contracts. And which parties do we reckon Fieldmarshall Brownlee would go in to bat for?
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Southerly: Liveblog: Moving House (Literally), in reply to Lilith __,
I boggle that he hadn't heard of David and Jen's struggles until now
Same. I'm just glad to see anyone commit to acting right away.
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Southerly: Liveblog: Moving House (Literally), in reply to Geoff Lealand,
some trees
coppicing was mentioned, I recall
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Southerly: Liveblog: Moving House (Literally), in reply to Jen Hay,
fits in really well already. onya