https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2512/S00082/new-poll-shows-78-of-new-zealanders-think-the-government-should-be-building-state-housing-at-scale.htm

Hoping this 78% vote accordingly

#nzpol #housing #statehousing

"It has become a truth universally acknowledged, at least on the left, that the last time National was in power, its only interest in state houses lay in selling them off. But did it really?

For a long time, the actual facts were obscured by a fog of data uncertainty.
...
Now, in response to Spinoff enquiries, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has produced official data that allows the question to be resolved."

#NZPol #StateHousing

https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/25-09-2023/did-national-really-just-simply-sell-off-state-houses

@dubh

My neighbourhood in 1947, the first state houses are built around the school here. Our house will be built in the fields to the west of those houses in a couple more years.

via https://www.flickr.com/photos/dccgis/25834720594/in/album-72157667048586901/

#liberton #dunedin #aotearoa #nz #statehousing