Stephanie Rodgers

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

Tag: state housing

  • Steven Joyce and policy-by-Twitter

    It would be a perfect episode of The Thick of It, but it’s real: today, the Minister of Fixing Things Steven Joyce fundamentally altered government policy by trying to get…

  • The government’s housing message dilemma

    John Key was across the media yesterday, trying to tamp down suggestions the Budget would do anything at all to address the housing “issue” which everyone else in New Zealand…

  • Our kids are still getting sick in unhealthy homes

    Andrew Little put the hard word on John Key over housing in Question Time yesterday: Prime Minister John Key implied that mould problems in some Housing New Zealand homes could…

  • 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…

  • Andrea Vance: five important unanswered questions

    Andrea Vance has posted five unanswered questions from the Beehive – click through for her answers: 1. When is an asset sale not an asset sale?  2. They won’t be…