Concrete production slumps to 2014 levels

The Kākā by Bernard Hickey · Feb 12, 2025 · 5m

Long stories short, the top six things in Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate and poverty on Thursday, February 13 are:

* The coalition Government’s early 2024 ‘fiscal emergency’ freeze on funding, planning and building houses, schools, local roads and hospitals helped extend and deepen the economic and jobs recession through calendar 2024, as evident in concrete production figures released yesterday, which showed output fell 7.7% over 2024 to a five-year low that is 10% below 2019 levels;

* Finance Minister Nicola Willis is expected to lay out the groundwork for a third…