Kāinga Ora selling Wellington land it once planned to build 320 homes on
In my Picks & Mixes: Kāinga Ora sells Wellington plots; Jacinda Ardern to appear at Covid Inquiry; US measles cases spread to Masterton; Big climate report recommends ending land buyouts
Briefly for paying subscribers at 7am on Wednesday, July 91, the key scoops, breaking news, deep-dives, Op-Eds, analysis and other news links in Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy around housing, poverty and climate are:
Kāinga Ora is selling two plots of land in Wellington it once planned to put 320 homes on, and is now building just 42 homes in a city with 640 families on the housing register, The Post-$’s Emma Ricketts reports this morning.
An official report into climate adaptation recommends ending land buyouts after a 10-year transition. A climate expert says that would be ‘morally bankrupt,’ RNZ’s Kate Newtown reports this morning.
A GP in Gore tells Associate Health Minister Matt Doocey doctors are sedating dementia patients because of a lack of local beds, the ODT-$’s Ella Scott-Fleming reports this morning.
The Local Government Commission has ordered an inquiry into combining all of Southland’s four councils, Matthew Littlewood reports for the ODT this morning, while David Hill reports for LDR via The Press that ECan wants to create a Parliament or Assembly for the South Island to lobby the Beehive.
Former PM Jacinda Ardern agreed overnight to appear before phase two of the Covid Inquiry, Stuff reports. Shayne Currie reports for NZ Herald-$ that a publicly funded movie about Ardern has been shut down.
Plans to introduce parking meters along Auckland’s waterfront have been cancelled after a backlash, Stuff reports this morning.
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