https://wellington.gen.nz/wellington-scoop+housing Items tagged with Wellington Scoop and Housing. https://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=164268 The Luxon-led government continues its attack on anything that the Labour Party ever managed to do, with the release of news about the Kāinga Ora housing projects. Most of them, it seems, have been killed off. “Brakes put on more than 370 Kāinga Ora housing developments nationally”. In Wellington the following projects are stopped: Arlington redevelopment and Evans Bay Parade, with other projects stopped in the Hutt, Naenae, Wainuiomata, and Porirua. The list says “paused.” But I know a dead duck when I see one. housing issues media Wed, 02 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=164268 Wellington Scoop 2024-10-02T00:00:00Z https://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=158786 It may not be dressed in fluoro lycra, but sometimes the furore over Wellington’s District Plan feels like the 80s all over again. Those who lived through those tumultuous times may see the similarities. In the 1980s, the Muldoon government’s efforts to control the economy were becoming increasingly futile – and on to the stage stepped a new class of bright young things pushing for radical change. housing issues media Mon, 11 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=158786 Wellington Scoop 2024-03-11T00:00:00Z http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=136763 The Wellington City Council made a peculiar decision last week, unanimously. In one resolution there was a good decision, and then a bad decision undermining the good decision. The good decision was that the Council supported advocacy to the Government for financial assistance for those most in need of rental relief through an income related rental subsidy (IRRS), available to state housing tenants, but denied to Council tenants. The bad decision was that it resolved to begin a process of getting rid of its exemplary award-winning Council housing and to start a distracting and entangled process of slowly but sur housing wcc issues government media Tue, 08 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=136763 Wellington Scoop 2021-06-08T00:00:00Z http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=129441 housing issues media Thu, 09 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=129441 Wellington Scoop 2020-07-09T00:00:00Z http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=127944 covid-19 housing health issues media Sat, 09 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=127944 Wellington Scoop 2020-05-09T00:00:00Z http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=41738 blanket-man housing people blogs issues media Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=41738 Wellington Scoop 2012-01-16T00:00:00Z