The Kākā’s Journal of Record for Monday, July 22

Biden steps aside; One in five NZers spend over 50% of income on mortgage or rent; Simeon Brown focused on potholes and bridge repairs; Peters gives major Pacific speech; Meridian opens wind farm

TL;DR: As of 7:00 am on Monday, July 22, the top six announcements, speeches, reports and research around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the last day are:

1. US President Joe Biden announced via X this morning he would not stand for a second term.

2. Multinational professional services firm GHD released research showing that one…