Mōrena. Long stories short; here’s my top six things to note in Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate and poverty on Monday September 2:
Wellington’s leaders are wringing their hands over an exodus of skilled staff and retail sales from the capital, driven by housing shortages that they appear reluctant to grapple with, and by the Government’s Budget and house-building cuts.
The Government’s decades-long underfunding of health in real and per-capita terms is cascading into a series of breaking points throughout the system that make running repairs even more difficult and expensive.
In solutions news, Canada has published a Public Land Bank identifying under-sued land that could have housing built on it.
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