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Bernard’s Saturday Soliloquy for Feb 8
Long stories short, the top six things in our political economy around housing, climate and poverty in the six days to Saturday, February 8 were:
* The Government announced it was stopping building new state houses to reduce its deficit and cut $5 billion of borrowing, but the housing market remains in crisis and reliant on the private sector to flood the market with affordable housing, which it has failed to do for 30 years;
* Local business and political leaders are growing uneasy over the Government’s ‘going for growth’ strategy, which is reliant on population growth from low-wage…
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