Adequate housing
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Adequate housing
The housing crisis in Aotearoa New Zealand affects many people but especially those with low incomes. There is poor housing stock and what is available is unaffordable. Housing is difficult to find, and for homeowners, rates are becoming unaffordable. Extended families are living in cramped spaces. Heating poor housing is expensive. There is a need to fund papakainga (community housing for Māori on Māori land).
There’s a lot more to that [equity] than a healthy lunch - it's about poverty, it’s about the stigma of not having, which leads to social exclusion especially with kids. It also leads to not being able to learn when you’re hungry.
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There’s a lot more to that [equity] than a healthy lunch - it's about poverty, it’s about the stigma of not having, which leads to social exclusion especially with kids. It also leads to not being able to learn when you’re hungry.
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Rates - we pay $800+ per quarter cause there’s so few of us in the area, so our rates are really high.
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Price of accommodation is a huge concern, because it’s taking most of people’s income if they’re renting. Even the availability. There’s pockets of homelessness across Central Otago.
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We here in this team – we started a company to address the housing issues in Kaikohe. There’s been no housing developments here for 20 years.
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It makes my heart ache to see the people struggling. We ran a bed and breakfast in Cambridge — rented out rooms in the house and provided cooked breakfast. We came here and thought we’d find a house and do the backpacking thing but couldn’t find a property that didn’t need a lot of work or that was big enough, so we found the house we’re in now, and turned the downstairs into a self-contained one bedroom flat we’ll be renting out for people that need to make a home. I’m so aware of the effect that Airbnbs have had on residents here who have rented here and the homes are bought up by Auckland people, city people who have got X amount of money to invest - they’re buying up homes with nice views and developing them into Airbnbs and the other people have to move away from their families because they can’t find anywhere to live. And all those Airbnbs are sitting there empty, perfectly good homes, empty because they’re only kept for people on holiday.
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Homes here are old and run down and government is pouring money into organizations full of bureaucrats. They waste millions of dollars and repairing the houses is like putting sticking plaster on an open wound – the plaster comes off and the wound opens up.
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Government puts in heat pumps in broken old homes, and people can’t pay the electric, so the heat pumps don’t even get used.
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I’d like to see a world where inequality was broken down instead of created. Could be wrong, my idea would be through giving everyone, making sure everyone has a home, it should be mandatory, it shouldn’t be up to parliament, everyone should be allowed to have a home. They shouldn’t have to break the law to feed themselves.
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