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Chief Human Rights Commissioner To Speak On Human Rights Breaches In A Talk Entitled: “Housing As A Human Right”
Saturday, 10 December 2022, 5:53 pm | State Housing Action Network
The Chief Human Rights Commissioner Paul Hunt is the keynote speaker at a public meeting in Christchurch on Monday to discuss “Housing as a human right” (see poster below) The meeting is organised by the State Housing Action Network and takes ... More >>
Labour’s Disgrace – The Housing Catastrophe For Low-income Families Rolls On
Sunday, 10 April 2022, 6:29 pm | State Housing Action Network
The latest figures for the state house waiting list were released late last week and no amount of fudging or dissembling can hide the fact that Labour continues to preside over the largest explosion in the state house waiting list in the history ... More >>
Labour Government: Prioritising The Interests Of Middle-Class Landlords Over Struggling Working Class Tenants
Friday, 22 January 2021, 8:04 am | State Housing Action Network
Yesterday’s government announcement on new state housing is a pathetic response to the biggest housing crisis in New Zealand since the 1940s. At a time when the country needs an industrial-scale state house building programme, the government ... More >>
Housing Minister Away With The Fairies
Friday, 15 May 2020, 1:37 pm | State Housing Action Network
Housing Minister Megan Woods: “The very first time in a very long while that we have had a public housing build target that does match the current waiting list” Excuse us Ms Woods but the facts on planet earth are the following: The current state ... More >>
Budget 2020: State Housing Rebuild Deeply Disappointing
Thursday, 14 May 2020, 3:53 pm | State Housing Action Network
The budget announcement that the government will deliver 6,000 additional public houses (and 2,000 transitional houses) over the next four to five years is deeply disappointing. This number includes houses to be provided by private community housing ... More >>
Infometrics Is Right To Call For A Ramping Up Of State House Building Post Covid 19
Friday, 8 May 2020, 6:36 am | State Housing Action Network
The State Housing Action Network (SHAN) supports the call by the economics consultancy Infometrics for the Government to step up its state housing building program to 9400 over the next two years as part of its Covid 19 response package (1). Currently under ... More >>