housing Archive

  • frog

    Mortgagee sales in Auckland – graph



    Sayeth the NZ Herald: the number of mortgagee sales – where a borrower’s property is sold by the [bank] – reached the highest levels since records began They’ve only been keeping records since 1994 though At the end of the article there are some numbers, which I made a graph of Manukau (orange line) is pretty [...] read more
    March 4, 2010 5:06 pm - 6 Comments
  • Metiria Turei

    A money gobbling stadium or a productive tertiary asset?



    The Dunedin City Council remains committed to squandering a couple of hundred million dollars of ratepayer money on the white elephant Awatea Stadium while allowing a major tertiary investment to go down the tubes. Otago Polytech and the University were working together to develop a design institute that they would share. They were promised a [...] read more
    March 23, 2009 8:00 am - 16 Comments
  • frog

    Sue Bradford goes in search of National’s State Housing



    Green MP Sue Bradford  asks the Housing Minister: Does he see any opportunity to simultaneously deal with the job losses in the housing construction sector and assist the nearly 10 thousand people on the Housing New Zealand waiting list? The Minister manages to insult the former Minister, requiring an apology and withdrawal, then goes on to insult [...] read more
    March 6, 2009 2:02 pm - 14 Comments
  • frog

    The Best Place For Rental Shake-Up is Toi- let



    I and many other frogs out there am renting so I’m pretty concerned about National’s shake up of rental laws led by Housing Minister Phil Heatley. The reason given for the shake-up seems to be that the scales have swung too far towards the tenants. If so this will be news to a lot of [...] read more
    February 19, 2009 5:37 pm - 59 Comments
  • frog

    Moving the homeless out of sight



    It seems what Auckland City Councillor Paul Goldsmith really wants is a huge carpet at the end of Queen Street under which he can sweep all the homeless people.  (Well, at least they might be warmer). Since when did our collective response to homelessness and the associated housing poverty that accompanies it become to complain that [...] read more
    September 4, 2008 1:49 pm - 12 Comments
  • frog

    More than 3000 new houses a year



    Sue Bradford launched the Greens’ housing policy last night in Otahuhu.  The policy signals an important shift from seeing houses as an investment for landlords to a home for people in need.  The NZPA story highlights some of the key points including: raising the rate of building and acquiring state houses through Housing New Zealand Corporation [...] read more
    September 2, 2008 8:20 am - 38 Comments
  • frog

    $1 billion of warm homes



    The have been the usual voices in favour and against the Greens’ decision to back the Emissions Trading Scheme, and I’ll talk more about that later. But I also just saw a media release coming from a different angle from the Director of the University of Otago Wellington’s He Kainga Oranga/Housing and Health Research Programme [...] read more
    August 27, 2008 4:30 pm - 47 Comments
  • frog

    Buying your own state house



    It’s not often I agree with National on the issue of state housing but I reckon its policy as apparently described by Phil Heatley yesterday seems fairly sensible: Housing spokesman Phil Heatley told a Housing Institute seminar in Waitakere yesterday that National would give back to Housing New Zealand tenants the right to buy their houses. They [...] read more
    July 23, 2008 8:45 am - 22 Comments
  • frog

    Dropping a Brick



    In the US housing market, prices are falling faster than during the Great Depression. Goodness, I pray that doesn’t happen here! In an article last week, the Economist reported that: Unfortunately, new figures this week reveal that house prices have already fallen by more over the past 12 months than in any year during the Great [...] read more
    June 9, 2008 4:50 pm - 42 Comments