Jim is back up in the bFM studios for another epic Greening Out! Today, he chats with Rosetta and Milly about the Plants For Palestine seedling fundraiser happening on Sunday November 16, and the latest news on Sanctuary Mahi Whenua gardens fight against developers. Whakarongo mai nei!
Jim is back for another year of stellar gardening chats, on Greening Out! Today, he catches up with Milly and Rosetta on all the latest happenings in his garden, and what is means to 'garden by feeling'. Whakarongo mai nei!
For our monthly catch up with The Green Party, Steve Abel joins Rosetta and Milly in the studio to have a kōrero about the draft Green Party delegate list, the Greens' proposed response to the fuel crisis, and the controversial Fisheries Amendment Bill. Whakarongo mai nei!
The first part of a look into Housing, Urban Development and Public Engagement in planning. Today, we have contributions from Housing Minister Phil Twyford, Opposition Spokesperson Judith Collins and Auckland Action Against Poverty Coordinator Ricardo Menéndez March on Kiwibuild, affordable housing and future reforms.
The waiting list for public housing continues to grow as nearly 14,500 households live in motels, on the street, or are close to losing their homes. The government's original target of 6400 state homes is simply not enough to meet the growing demand. Auckland Action against Poverty has called on the government to triple its state housing targets to match. Felix Walton spoke with AAAP Coordinator Ricardo Menendez March.
Louis talks to Hugh Pavletich, the co-author of the Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey, about the increasing unaffordability of the housing market.
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.
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