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Wednesday’s Chorus: Arthur Grimes on why building many, many more social houses is so critical
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TL;DR: The election campaign took an ugly turn yesterday, and in completely the wrong direction. All three of the parties on track to win Government in 17 days time ramped up their policies to label and punish beneficiaries as undeserving bludgers.
Instead, they should have been proposing how to vastly increase the number of social houses in Aotearoa faster than our population is rising, and how to improve the healthiness, affordability and tenure security of our private rental stock. That’s evident in new…
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