The Luxon-lead government continues its attack on anything that the Labour Party ever managed to do, with the release today of news about the Kainga Ora housing projects. Most of them, it seems, have been killed off. “Brakes put on more than 370 Kāinga Ora housing developments nationally”. While they are spread out around Aotearoa, most are in Auckland, while in Wellington they note the following…
Kainga Ora
You may have noticed that there is a general election coming up, and the amount of hot air increasing from all sides. Billed as the battle of the Chrises (Chris’s? Chrisis? Crisis?), I’d venture that it is a lot more serious than just a two-way stand-off of Chris H vs Chris L – its actually a Mexican stand-off with Chris B in it as well, and…
Although the news yesterday was full of journos saying that they had not expected Jacinda Ardern to announce her resignation first thing in the morning, in reality it was always going to happen. This is a blog (an out-dated concept, left behind in the maelstrom of the toxic twittersphere, I know) that usually confines itself to the somewhat drier, non-political subjects of Architecture, Urban Design, and…