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Showing posts with label Housing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Housing. Show all posts
Thursday, September 3, 2026

Mike's Minute: Fast-track needs to get back to infrastructure, not housing

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The prediction we made some weeks back over fast-track housing is starting to come true. Fast-track in and of itself is working. The Taurang...
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Sunday, August 2, 2026

Mike's Minute: The housing developments and fast-track conundrum

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We can end the week by adding another example of angst and anger to the fast-track pile. We have talked about Delmore and their 1200 houses ...
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Vance Ginn: The Poverty of the UN’s Degrowth Agenda

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The latest attack on economic growth comes wrapped in moral language. Its advocates promise less poverty, greater equality, and a safer clim...
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Thursday, May 28, 2026

Steven Gaskell: Colonialism Apparently Invented Mortgages

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According to the latest fashionable academic theory coming out of the University of Auckland, Māori housing struggles today can largely be ...
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Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Matua Kahurangi: A brand new home for unemployed immigrants while Kiwis rot on the waiting list

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Over the weekend, AppleBear on X shared an RNZ story meant to showcase compassion in action. Instead, it ended up highlighting exactly why ...
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Friday, February 20, 2026

Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: Chris Bishop's housing u-turn is basic common sense

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Well, finally Chris Bishop has done the right thing and made the u-turn on the two million new houses he had planned for Auckland. It’s not ...
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Monday, December 22, 2025

Dr Oliver Hartwich: From blueprints to building

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After many difficult years, 2025 felt different. It was not easier. The economy remained stagnant and the reform agenda demanded hard choice...
Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Dr Don Brash: At the end of year two, how are they doing?

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With less than a year to go to the next general election, polls suggest that the current Government could well lose to a Labour-led coalitio...
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Thursday, June 19, 2025

Bob Edlin: Govt favours farming over forestry....

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Govt favours farming over forestry – but is it giving a greater priority to growing cities than growing crops? Just a few days ago, Agricult...
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Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Tony Vaughn: Racial Romanticism Is Not Policy - The Cost of Coddling a Myth

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David Seymour committed the cardinal sin of contemporary politics - he told the truth! Race-based funding is racist. A statement so obviousl...
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Thursday, April 3, 2025

Mike's Minute: We are housing snobs

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A housing development for you. A housing development that once again shows how reality beats theory. Housing is a New Zealand obsession. We ...
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Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 28/1/25

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Simeon Brown steps out as Minister of Health Your PoO monitors of ministerial doings have noted that, since we last reported, Simeon Brown ...
Friday, December 6, 2024

Michael Reddell: Where were the central agencies?

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Back in early October I wrote a post “Public policy just keeps on worsening” , on the then newly-announced Residential Development Underwrit...
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Friday, October 11, 2024

John Porter: Why rob a bank when you can plunder the Treasury!

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On October 8th, Associate Minister of Housing and Hamilton West MP Tama Potaka announced a multi-million dollar housing project with Waikato...
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Tuesday, October 8, 2024

Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 8/10/24

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Reti is among ministers who are spending our money (but his injection for Palmerston North hospital is well below $3bn) The Government has b...
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Monday, August 12, 2024

Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 12/8/24

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You may have heard of “congestion charging” but buckle up and brace for “time of use” schemes The Government has announced it will soon intr...
Monday, July 22, 2024

Brian Easton: Flooding Housing Policy

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The Minister of Housing’s ambition is to reduce markedly the ratio of house prices to household incomes. If his strategy works it would tran...
Thursday, July 4, 2024

Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 4/7/24

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And when food-producing land makes way for housing, don’t fret – there’s plenty of kina to be harvested More regulations are being shredded ...
Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 18/6/24

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Good news for grannies and kiddies – but see what Woods didn’t mention when enthusing about $5.4m aero space boost Today’s news from our min...
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Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 11/6/24

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How the govt is balancing NZ’s delicate foreign relationships – by posting news of a Japan visit but not a China visit News of the PM’s plan...