Talk Wellington / October 2023
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Listening recommendations! Housing and climate
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- Two killer podcast recommendations: a great myth busted, and some hard facts reiterated Both of these deserve their own “Review” post so if you’re keen to pen something please sing out! The great housing supply myth Also known as the conventional wisdom of “housing is incredibly expensive because there’s a supply shortage so we just need...
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A tool to prevent gentrification?
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- Everyone wants their neighbourhood to be a better place to live, but how do you avoid the fundamental laws of the market forcing people out who’ve often lived and loved there for generations? One tool can help… Gentrification. It’s one of the few genuinely bad things about the otherwise process of making nicer places to...
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City future-making: get amongst it this Thursday!
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- Another great local thing to light up your post-election world Every election season, regardless of your views of the parties, it’s easy to feel a bit disempowered: it’s all about the Heavy Hitters making grand gestures about how they’ll change our country. So it’s worth remembering that whatever the flavour of central government, the most...
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Vote your power for better urban New Zealand!
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- For your empowered voting enjoyment… We hear at Talk Wellington that you our readers appreciate us being really unequivocal and evidence-based about urban policy and whether it’ll make for fairer, more sustainable, more prosperous towns and cities and people. We’re into it, whoever’s proposing it! So, dear urban citizens of Te Upoko o te Ika and 84%...
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It’s a news roundup!
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- There’s just been a lot happening in the Wellington region in the last few weeks. Here’s stuff that may’ve slipped past your nose… In no particular order… It’s actually real! The Golden Mile revitalisation is officially underway! Cities and neighbourhoods: they’re complex ecosystems, they’re always changing – nice piece on incomings and outgoings in Te...
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City space: for some, for all, for a while: great event this Tuesday
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- LettingSpace was an extraordinary phenomenon and there’s now a book about it. So first: enjoy learning about LettingSpace, and then: go to the book launch! It’s good for everyone when street-facing commercial property in city centres is actively used – because vacanct premises are the lowkey Dementors of street life, chilling the soul and sucking...
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Taxes, rates, value and land: Common Ground Aotearoa
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- Rates, taxes and whatnots: are there better options than New Zealand’s current system of getting money to fund public services like pipes? Post from Common Ground Aotearoa, nerdy advocates for a better way Principles of taxation and how our rates system stacks up Principles of taxation When determining how to raise revenue, governments should try...
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