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Interview: Inside Wellington's local government democratic deficit
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TL;DR: Wellington City Council officials have repeatedly acted to block new housing supply, despite the express instructions of the majority of councillors in key votes last year and in the face of the desperation of young workers facing the most expensive and lowest quality rentals in Aotearoa.
I spoke to pro-housing councillor Rebecca Matthews last week about what it’s like to try to shift the centre of political gravity inside councils suffering from the sort of ‘democratic deficit’ diagnosed by the…
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