Under half of Kāinga Ora's 8,000 'new' houses are actually new, yet Govt is squeezing funding for community housing providers who lease existing homes; Covid pushes 15,000 more kids in poverty: CPAG
Sad but true ... if it wasn't for my marriage 'I too' just like the movement would probably be homeless and as every middle age attached women who isn't strong enough or the other half of an emerging aristocratic class power couple fully knows she runs the gamut and concludes that she hopes like hell she 'just' outlives her spouse/husband and might just do the Zsa Zsa Gabor I'm a Good House Keeper without the divorce. Please forgive the heterosexual context as I'm sure similar economic co-dependancy arrangements would also hold true in LGBTQ but the wake really is about classism and inequality ultimately. The movie 'the Hustler' with Jennifer Lopez depicted the classism model very well with women in different stations.
1. The impact of poverty on food, clothing, shelter, education, etc is felt by anyone who does not have the required resources. By using that obnoxious phrase “especially Maori and Pacifica” you are only propagating racial profiling. Highlighting ethnicity with every negative statistic only victimises people more and tars them with a condescending colonial brush.
It does not help them in any way. Hunger affects everyone. ‘They’ are us. So, stop racial profiling.
2. Kiwis in general and the media in particular seems to be fixated on a ‘feed the hungry and move on’ approach. If we want to eradicate child poverty, house the homeless, employment for all and such noble-sounding mediaspeak, doing more of what hasn’t worked before i.e. endless freebies, is no solution.
Why don’t we also hear about efforts to help individuals and families help themselves. Successes and failures of such programmes, analyses of factors, experimental solutions which have worked elsewhere, etc.
Sad but true ... if it wasn't for my marriage 'I too' just like the movement would probably be homeless and as every middle age attached women who isn't strong enough or the other half of an emerging aristocratic class power couple fully knows she runs the gamut and concludes that she hopes like hell she 'just' outlives her spouse/husband and might just do the Zsa Zsa Gabor I'm a Good House Keeper without the divorce. Please forgive the heterosexual context as I'm sure similar economic co-dependancy arrangements would also hold true in LGBTQ but the wake really is about classism and inequality ultimately. The movie 'the Hustler' with Jennifer Lopez depicted the classism model very well with women in different stations.
1. The impact of poverty on food, clothing, shelter, education, etc is felt by anyone who does not have the required resources. By using that obnoxious phrase “especially Maori and Pacifica” you are only propagating racial profiling. Highlighting ethnicity with every negative statistic only victimises people more and tars them with a condescending colonial brush.
It does not help them in any way. Hunger affects everyone. ‘They’ are us. So, stop racial profiling.
2. Kiwis in general and the media in particular seems to be fixated on a ‘feed the hungry and move on’ approach. If we want to eradicate child poverty, house the homeless, employment for all and such noble-sounding mediaspeak, doing more of what hasn’t worked before i.e. endless freebies, is no solution.
Why don’t we also hear about efforts to help individuals and families help themselves. Successes and failures of such programmes, analyses of factors, experimental solutions which have worked elsewhere, etc.