Bishop blocks funding plea from Community Housing Provider for 42 social homes in Hamilton as $100m capital fund was 'used up', despite Govt spending $4b each year on rent subsidies and grants
In the community housing sector, two organizations represent disparate community housing providers. One is Community Housing Aotearoa, and the other is Te Mata Pihi (for Māori providers). They have each received until now $1.2m to bring together community agencies to make it easier for the government to provide cohesive responses and policy. The latest proposal is that they will receive $1m between them. According to my math that's not a 7.5% decrease. It's also not "supercharging the community housing providers". Maybe the wording not stated was that support will only be "supercharged" near to, or in, marginal National seats? Is that where this government is heading. Waiting for Bill English's report to give them permission to break up State Housing in NZ and shafting the community housing sector? Let us see.......
Bernard, are you in a position to press the Minister on point #1? Is it one way of digging into ‘the deficit myth(s)? I wonder if the 380, and much of the media, confused personal and public interest leaving RNZ as the last line of defence.
Thank you Bernard, a lot of not good news to digest today. I would like this to be opened up to the public, perhaps as a tribute to the journalists who were cast adrift yesterday
Thank you Bernard, your words are definitely appreciated.
I wrote an email to mr bishop as a result of reading your newsletter with a please explain, regarding the abysmal funding for the development of social housing. Do I expect a response? Well no, I'm not that hopeful, but at least it felt a little better to waggle my finger at these ridiculous decisions being made by supposed grown ups 😖
Clearly digital advertising revenue is explosive, but that of tv is still significant at 500 mill and may interest investors to save and maybe enhance Newshub. Excellent news presumably increases the specific ad value assoc with the programmes involved. We desperately need retention of this or similar. I think we are recognising a Joni Mitchell 'you don't know what you've got till it's gone' moment. In combo with a govt riding roughshod over normal rules and regs with public interest clearly not paramount in primary areas the significance is multiplied.
Re 5. Commiserations and Kia kaha to personnel affected by media reforms. Some opinion equates it to market failure contributing to tragedy of the commons but isn’t it obvious that having information media owned by American corporate propaganda organs already a tragedy of the commons.
The lack of critical nz journalism regarding the Gazan genocide and Palestinian occupation reflects the woeful state of nz news media.
I was simply dumbfounded by the performance of the Broadcasting Minister (or whatever she calls the role these days) last night. She was 11th on the National list (although has never held a constituency seat). Her communication of what the government was planning/looking at in Cabinet was "a secret". This resulted in her sounding very insincere. She almost said at the end of one interview (in my mind) that there probably wasn't much need for this whole Ministry in the future. It will be interesting to see how they address the TVNZ loss next year
Some good news! 🤷♀️ That humble dandelion is your friend 🌬🌱
In support of growing biodiverse-rich urban gardens (that complement and do not compromise surrounding native habitats) 💛 dandelions in you backyards.
Dandelions provide food for insects - both native and introduced. Butterflies, bees, hoverflies, beetles.......
Our native bees and hoverflies are forced to compete for food with introduced wasps and bees, so a no fuss addition food sourse for introduced foraging insects is good gardening.
As soil structure and vegetation matures, dandelions will make way for other intended plants.
But until then, the dandelions tap root brings valuable nutrients up from deep within the soil structure.
They're even an excellent source of nutrition for humans. The leaves, flowers, root, seeds and stem are all edible.
"dandelions have more vitamin A than spinach, more vitamin C than tomatoes, and are a powerhouse of iron, calcium and potassium"
And they bring joy - make a wish 🌬
But if you're still not convinced...
Dandelions need sunlight to grow - leave your grass longer.
The optics of the Housing Minister's comments are appalling, he really should get PR help because not doing what was a key plank in their policy this early in the term is the stuff of Kiwibuild legend. It all boils down to "we like to say stuff that makes us look good and wins votes but we didn't mean we'd actually do it and we certainly don't want to spend money on it"
It is a very sad day when so many people are losing their jobs. It was terrible when the minister was interviewed and she had a chuckle, which I think was an expression of nervousness yet still, not a good look.
I have a subscription to Netflix because I can watch with no commercials and also with subtitles. I wouldn't mind paying such subscription to TVNZ if I could get the same (excluding the subtitles in different languages. I get that that one is not an easy ask). I think I'm not going to be the only one. The money raised can go towards paying for news.
Going for growth? Only if you are talking about growing the already rich at the expense of the rest of us.
Let's make this free to view. Good graph on advertising revenue.
In the community housing sector, two organizations represent disparate community housing providers. One is Community Housing Aotearoa, and the other is Te Mata Pihi (for Māori providers). They have each received until now $1.2m to bring together community agencies to make it easier for the government to provide cohesive responses and policy. The latest proposal is that they will receive $1m between them. According to my math that's not a 7.5% decrease. It's also not "supercharging the community housing providers". Maybe the wording not stated was that support will only be "supercharged" near to, or in, marginal National seats? Is that where this government is heading. Waiting for Bill English's report to give them permission to break up State Housing in NZ and shafting the community housing sector? Let us see.......
Bernard, are you in a position to press the Minister on point #1? Is it one way of digging into ‘the deficit myth(s)? I wonder if the 380, and much of the media, confused personal and public interest leaving RNZ as the last line of defence.
Thank you Bernard, a lot of not good news to digest today. I would like this to be opened up to the public, perhaps as a tribute to the journalists who were cast adrift yesterday
Please open up. Am aghast at the numbers now unemployed due to this current government.
Thank you Bernard, your words are definitely appreciated.
I wrote an email to mr bishop as a result of reading your newsletter with a please explain, regarding the abysmal funding for the development of social housing. Do I expect a response? Well no, I'm not that hopeful, but at least it felt a little better to waggle my finger at these ridiculous decisions being made by supposed grown ups 😖
Clearly digital advertising revenue is explosive, but that of tv is still significant at 500 mill and may interest investors to save and maybe enhance Newshub. Excellent news presumably increases the specific ad value assoc with the programmes involved. We desperately need retention of this or similar. I think we are recognising a Joni Mitchell 'you don't know what you've got till it's gone' moment. In combo with a govt riding roughshod over normal rules and regs with public interest clearly not paramount in primary areas the significance is multiplied.
Re 5. Commiserations and Kia kaha to personnel affected by media reforms. Some opinion equates it to market failure contributing to tragedy of the commons but isn’t it obvious that having information media owned by American corporate propaganda organs already a tragedy of the commons.
The lack of critical nz journalism regarding the Gazan genocide and Palestinian occupation reflects the woeful state of nz news media.
I was simply dumbfounded by the performance of the Broadcasting Minister (or whatever she calls the role these days) last night. She was 11th on the National list (although has never held a constituency seat). Her communication of what the government was planning/looking at in Cabinet was "a secret". This resulted in her sounding very insincere. She almost said at the end of one interview (in my mind) that there probably wasn't much need for this whole Ministry in the future. It will be interesting to see how they address the TVNZ loss next year
Some good news! 🤷♀️ That humble dandelion is your friend 🌬🌱
In support of growing biodiverse-rich urban gardens (that complement and do not compromise surrounding native habitats) 💛 dandelions in you backyards.
Dandelions provide food for insects - both native and introduced. Butterflies, bees, hoverflies, beetles.......
Our native bees and hoverflies are forced to compete for food with introduced wasps and bees, so a no fuss addition food sourse for introduced foraging insects is good gardening.
As soil structure and vegetation matures, dandelions will make way for other intended plants.
But until then, the dandelions tap root brings valuable nutrients up from deep within the soil structure.
They're even an excellent source of nutrition for humans. The leaves, flowers, root, seeds and stem are all edible.
"dandelions have more vitamin A than spinach, more vitamin C than tomatoes, and are a powerhouse of iron, calcium and potassium"
And they bring joy - make a wish 🌬
But if you're still not convinced...
Dandelions need sunlight to grow - leave your grass longer.
Dandelions find crevices - avoid digging.
Wind disperses dandelion seeds - remove seed heads. (eat them)
And no harmful sprays.
Happy gardening for biodiversity everyone 🦋🌱
The optics of the Housing Minister's comments are appalling, he really should get PR help because not doing what was a key plank in their policy this early in the term is the stuff of Kiwibuild legend. It all boils down to "we like to say stuff that makes us look good and wins votes but we didn't mean we'd actually do it and we certainly don't want to spend money on it"
It is a very sad day when so many people are losing their jobs. It was terrible when the minister was interviewed and she had a chuckle, which I think was an expression of nervousness yet still, not a good look.
I have a subscription to Netflix because I can watch with no commercials and also with subtitles. I wouldn't mind paying such subscription to TVNZ if I could get the same (excluding the subtitles in different languages. I get that that one is not an easy ask). I think I'm not going to be the only one. The money raised can go towards paying for news.
Going for growth? Only if you are talking about growing the already rich at the expense of the rest of us.
Bernard, do you know where the 100 million for community housing was allocated?
Many thanks to paying subscribers. We got over the 100 likes threshold. So I've opened this up for full public reading, listening and sharing.
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