Stephanie Rodgers

Feminist, leftie, green māmā from Te Whanganui-a-Tara

Category: Housing

  • In defence of actually standing for something

    Rob Salmond has a post up at Public Address, In defence of the centre, to which Mike Smith has written a response at The Standard. It’s an argument I’m a…

  • Costly government

    I wrote yesterday about our heartless, penny-pinching government, which emphasises Getting To Surplus at all costs even if that means kids dying in cold state houses. This is the true…

  • Heartless government

    A few stories of recent weeks which show exactly what kind of government we have. Last August, Emma-Lita Bourne died of pneumonia because the state house her family lived in…

  • Healthy, safe housing is a basic human right

    [Content note: death of a child] The Greens have been calling for a “Warrant of Fitness” on all rental properties for a while, and the need for one has been…

  • Campbell Live on the Christchurch quake recovery

    Continuing my commemoration of Campbell Live’s commitment to serious investigative reporting of New Zealand current affairs, instead of watching goddamned Road Cops. Tonight: here’s to John and his team’s unwavering dedication…