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Luxon's housing-market-with-bits-tacked-on moment
TL;DR: Aotearoa-NZ’s utterly broken, expensive and unhealthy housing market is at the heart of our economic, social and political problems. It distorts our behaviour, dominates our aspirations and complaints, and has again taken centre stage in our political economy in the most personal and stark way.
PM Christopher Luxon’s decision to claim $1,000/week in expenses from taxpayers for living in his own apartment in Wellington when he could have lived in Premier House has again illustrated how our society has become a housing-market-with-bits tacked-on.
Elsewhere in Aotearoa-NZ’s political…
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