The Hoon: On the China Tightrope; Cycleways vs drivers
TLDR: The week’s news in Aotearoa’s political economy I covered via The Kākā for subscribers included:
* The Labour Government’s announcement it would share the costs with councils and insurers of buying back about 700 now-uninhabitable homes (~$1 billion) and protecting another 10,000 at-risk homes (un-estimated) from extreme climate events after Cyclones Hale and Gabrielle, but couldn’t say how much it would or could pay, and how much it expected or would force councils and insurers to pay; Friday’s email
* Data this week from CoreLogic, Realestate.co.nz and Barfoot and Thompson showed a…
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