Following the release of a report that declares our housing crisis as a "human rights crisis", Ilena talks to Aaron Hendry, the youth housing team leader for Lifewise, and Michael Rehm, a Senior Lecturer in Property at the University of Auckland. They talk about what the implications of this declaration might be and what future action could look like through incorporating a human rights/Housing First approach and Te Tiriti principles.
This week on the Tuesday Wire, Milly has her weekly catch-up with the National Party's Dr Shane Reti, and speaks to him about Housing Minister Chris Bishop's most recent speech delivered last week. In the speech, Chris Bishop revealed a number of changes regarding legislation and policy to do with the current build-to-rent scheme, including changes to the Overseas Investment Act and to the Income Tax Act. Dr Shane Reti and Milly discuss the current issues to do with housing and the party's plans to help ease the pressure on the housing market.
For our weekly catch up with the ACT party Rawan spoke to MP Simon Court about some of ACT’s policies to battle the housing crisis.
They started off by discussing their incentive for councils to increase the building of residential housing, looking at why it's important and how it will work. This incentive aims to take a 50% GST from the revenue of new residential buildings and give it back to councils.
Simon then discussed ACTs plans to scrap the Resource Management Act, taking out what they believe to be an excess of consents and regulations and focus more on development. He also talked about the reforms they plan to make to the business ACT and how this links into the housing crisis
Last week, Housing Minister Chris Bishop announced six key changes to housing policy to "flood" the country with new homes. These include freeing up land for development, removing unnecessary planning barriers and relaxing standards.
Wire host Sofia spoke to University of Auckland senior lecturer of Architecture and Planning, Dr Elizabeth Aitken Rose, about the government’s plans to address the housing crisis in light of Bishop’s announcements last week.
She started the interview asking her what the key changes Bishop announced were.
In the aftermath of Cyclone Gabrielle, there was widespread damage to homes across affected areas in the North Island, with the housing market across the whole country facing massive subsequent reductions.
Around 170 homes were deemed unsafe to enter, with almost 5000 others facing other infrastructural damages.
Oto spoke to Maude Loutsch, a lecturer and PHD candidate in the Faculty of Law at the University of Auckland, to discuss the impacts to housing caused by Cyclone Gabrielle and Aotearoa’s preparedness for housing impacts in the event of natural disasters.
A study was recently conducted by Motu Economic and Public Policy Research comparing outcomes for children living in public housing with their peers living in privately owned homes.
The study found that children aged between 0-9 who lived in public housing faced a number of disadvantages, exhibiting higher levels of behavioural difficulties in early childhood.
Oto spoke to Dr Jaimie Monk, a research fellow at Motu, about the study and the links between public housing and children’s wellbeing
This week Pearl speaks to Andrew about Labour challenging the government to support a Bill that will allow for entry to the Pike river mine. They also chat about the PM’s skipping of Waitangi Day celebrations and Andrew’s own Waitangi Day plans. Additionally, Green MP Julie Ann Genter is contesting Jacinda Ardern in the Mt Albert seat, Pearl and Andrew discuss what will this will reflect about the Labour & Green relationship coming up to the election.
This week on the show, Metiria talks to Ximena about the Green Party's new water policy unveiled during their campaign launch in the weekend. The policy proposes an interim measure of charging bottling companies ten cents for every litre of water they intend to sell, as well as eventually putting in place a comprehensive commercial water pricing scheme over time. Ximena also asks Metiria about the fiery back-and-forth that unfolded between the Greens and NZ First during the weekend, raising the question of whether the two parties can put their differences aside and form a cooperative government if they come out on top in this year's election.
This week on the greendesk, Producer Jack Marshall speak with John Early from the Auckland War Memorial Museum about a new exhibition called the ‘Secret World of Butterflies’. The exhibit will open this Saturday to the public (Insider tip - Suzy Cato will be there MCing the launch - so you know it’s going to be good)
Before the doors open up, my producer Jack sat down with Mr Early to get the low down on the world of butterflies.
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