Post AVjlsuKMIg5B2Epffc by sidawson@mastodon.nz
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 (DIR) Post #AVjlKtYydRe2oqS49Y by phil_stevens@mastodon.nz
       2023-05-17T05:30:46Z
       
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       Bernard Hickey is on fire today:"Last night the survivors of the fire slept in shelters, motels and in marae, if they slept. All their belongings are gone. They are there because our country has:- built the fewest new homes for every 1,000 new residents in the world in the last 30 years- the fastest rise in real residential land values in the world, along with the most expensive rents and homes relative to incomes in the world"https://thekaka.substack.com/p/the-fire-fueled-by-our-housing-and
       
 (DIR) Post #AVjlKveir3QfJF9gO0 by phil_stevens@mastodon.nz
       2023-05-17T05:33:37Z
       
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       and more:"the highest proportion of stressed renters in the world,  over 1/4 of renters paying more than 40% of their disposable income on rent- 24,030 households on the housing register for social housing- state spending on housing subsidies of $4 billion per year- 430,000 households receiving so little income for such high rents that they need Accommodation Supplement and special housing needs grants (HUD); and,- 480,104 households who needed to use food banks in March."Shame.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVjlsuKMIg5B2Epffc by sidawson@mastodon.nz
       2023-05-17T06:07:14Z
       
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       @phil_stevens Yeaaah. I earn reasonably well. We're looking at moving. It's going to be a _minimum_ of 50% of my net income. And that's for a shithole.NZ SUCKS re equality, and especially rent vs ownership of property.