Sounds like HNZ should have rehoused her father long ago to more suitable accommodation, and freeing up a 3 BR house for a family that needed it. I wonder how much of the housing shortage is due to this mismatch in housing needs.
This is the sort of thinking that would pay big money for NZ native bones to be repatriated from overseas museums. The Pike River men are dead and entombed already. People need to not waste tax payers money on trying to retrieve inanimate objects. Human tissue is incinerated all the time after surgical procedures with nary a thought. There really is no difference.
The problem with lease hold land is that suddenly the land owner can decide to hike the rents up, and youre stuck because you have to move the house. Napier City Council is refusing to freehold leasehold land, and those owners in Cornwall Park had to abandon their houses because the land lease rose dramatically. http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/money/9024096/Another-Cornwall-Park-house-abandoned
Lets go the whole communist way shall we comrades? If you own more than one house, then all the others are forfeited to the state to give to others without housing. More than one storey to your house. Sorry, one storey is enough. Forfeit the other levels to homeless comrades. Thats what happened in China. Encroaching on private property rights is just one thin edge of the edge.This issue is easily solved. The government can rent these houses as long as it maintains them, and guarantees the rent and the property. People who damage publically managed housing get put into converted containers that they cant trash with prison type metal bathrooms. If you can prove you can look after property you get rewarded by an upgrade to your living conditions. People need incentives. If these measures were in place the housing problem would vanish.
Well the version of the golden plates I saw says that basket ball players are exempt from church attendance if practice is that day. But Ive got the revised edition that the angel Moroni personally showed me. Kid needs to get up to date.
Although doctors have ethical responsibilities to their patients, both alive and deceased, they have an even greater ethical responsibility to the community. Phillipa Malpas is correct that the police should have been informed once Shaun had died. And I would argue, the police should have been informed once he appeared to make a partial recovery as they were not in a position to determine he could not kill again.
Is there a plan in place for keeping all of our countrys social housing stock in good nick? And wouldnt turning off the toby be an easier fix if its just the overflow from the header tank? Or does the toby control the water to more than one flat? And when can someone come to my house to install free double glazing?
What a shame. As a Wellington Boys College student some 50 years ago we were expected to give up our seats to adults, or older forms if we were on the school buses otherwise youd get physically removed! Now that Im of an age that needs a seat, theyre going to take that privilege away :( I guess its time to drive the car to work instead.
I was trying to use a snapper card today on the machine in upper Featherston Street, and it wasnt working. A parking warden was looking over my shoulder and said not to bother as electronic payments werent working this morning, and I had to find something called coins.
We are in the end of three years for our prefabricated house. Due to innumerable delays with engineers, architects, and bad advice from the WCC, we have only just got the piles in the ground. Prefab is not a panacea.
The problem is, and has always been, political. Our grandparents and parents were taxed to build the dams, the power lines, the hydroelectric power stations etc. My relatives helped design the pylons that carried the electricity across the country. But who owns them and the power they generate now?Instead of spending tax payers money on token military upgrades we should be fixing the housing stock in this country to modern standards. Triple glaze every window and insulate for the benefit of future generations. But its going to cost $6k to retrofit just three windows in our flat. Impossible for most renters.
Air New Zealand should be applauded for offering choices even though its sad that the impossible burger is only available to Business Premier customers. If Winston chose to fly coach, he wouldnt be offended as that choice would not be available to him.
well, we need to look at the evidence. How many people have been injured while standing on a city bus. Note also that people in seats are also unrestrained
And thats the gap in understanding between those who have and those who dont. The haves are willing to make sacrifices in lifestyle so that they can have investment property.
Youre clearly not Kiwi enough. I remember the signs in Lambton Quay that said not to spit on the street, too many Kiwis used to do that. And try taking a bus and hearing metal music blasting from someones ear phones. Thats Kiwi too.
This is easy enough to solve. Ask Huawei to provide the source code to their equipment under a non disclosure agreement. Thats how Microsoft Windows got into the USSR ... they got the source.
Im not arguing for communism which doesnt work. Im arguing for a narrowing of the gap between the obscenely rich and the have nots. Too many of the latter leads to social unrest and revolutions. Or, in NZs case, an enlarging prison population as well as ingrained generational dependency.
If thats the case, it would be economic. Replacing an open fireplace with a retrofit clean burning wood burner is going to cost way much more than a $50 heater. Less for a heat pump but way more expensive.
Correction, Ive had Air NZ staff demand ID such as passports for domestic flights but only if Im checking in luggage. Thats happened at small regional airports.
The major component cost is not the glass, its the labour. So, if youre going to do it properly, then triple glaze when its appropriate. And in many parts of NZ where theres snow and ice in winter, triple glazing should be standard.
Nothing is fair in life and taxation is a part of that. What we should be doing is looking to create an equitable society where there is no unhealthy gap between the super rich, and the poor. Otherwise we end up with enclaves of gated communities amongst the poor with society the poorer on a whole. On one extreme we have communism like North Korea where wealth ends up concentrated in the hands of the political elite with no hope for those of wrong thought, and the USA where wealth ends up with the mega corporations or is inherited. Where is the balance?
We were advised by Wellington Water we could straddle the drains running across the property with a specified clearance on each side. Ready to go, and then they changed their minds and said that we had to dig the drains up, and resleeve them in concrete for them. That was going to be a mission since they were 3 m down with very limited access to the site for any heavy equipment. So, we had to move the house to avoid the drains.
I think this is simply resolved. If you want to pay for a seat, then do so. If you just want to stand, then pay for standing only. Gold card users can then upgrade to a seat if they want one. If you want a seat for your shopping then buy another seat. Everyone wins and no one has to be educated on manners.
Woman's request to swap her state house for childhood home declined
Sounds like HNZ should have rehoused her father long ago to more suitable accommodation, and freeing up a 3 BR house for a family that needed it. I wonder how much of the housing shortage is due to this mismatch in housing needs.
Real estate agent entered property without consent, made tenants beds
Can you come and make my beds too?
Andrew Little stands by comments on Australia's deportations after Aussie minister sledges him
This is the sort of thinking that would pay big money for NZ native bones to be repatriated from overseas museums. The Pike River men are dead and entombed already. People need to not waste tax payers money on trying to retrieve inanimate objects. Human tissue is incinerated all the time after surgical procedures with nary a thought. There really is no difference.
Mum mad at other woman for videoing her child's tantrum
Public location. Not much they can tell you not to do.
Petition to save Wellington CAB gets more signatures than council's Long-Term Plan
Lose two city council middle managers. Budget balanced. Easy.
Panic buttons, security staff considered for south Auckland bus routes after drivers attacked
Do what the australians do and put the drivers in secure cages.
Winston Peters wants affordable homes for those on living wage
The problem with lease hold land is that suddenly the land owner can decide to hike the rents up, and youre stuck because you have to move the house. Napier City Council is refusing to freehold leasehold land, and those owners in Cornwall Park had to abandon their houses because the land lease rose dramatically. http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/money/9024096/Another-Cornwall-Park-house-abandoned
Opinion: Tax ghost houses and pour the money back into affordable housing
Lets go the whole communist way shall we comrades? If you own more than one house, then all the others are forfeited to the state to give to others without housing. More than one storey to your house. Sorry, one storey is enough. Forfeit the other levels to homeless comrades. Thats what happened in China. Encroaching on private property rights is just one thin edge of the edge.This issue is easily solved. The government can rent these houses as long as it maintains them, and guarantees the rent and the property. People who damage publically managed housing get put into converted containers that they cant trash with prison type metal bathrooms. If you can prove you can look after property you get rewarded by an upgrade to your living conditions. People need incentives. If these measures were in place the housing problem would vanish.
HNZ tenants intimidating Northland residents
Rehouse these people next to Andrew McKenzie, HNZs CEO and see how long they last.
Solar panel heater made from empty cans costs almost nothing to run
There are lots of old cheap technologies like solar space heating that could be implemented. The interesting question is why it isnt.
Teenage Mormon basketballer dropped over Sunday morning training
Well the version of the golden plates I saw says that basket ball players are exempt from church attendance if practice is that day. But Ive got the revised edition that the angel Moroni personally showed me. Kid needs to get up to date.
A deathbed murder confession: Why doctors decided not to tell police
Although doctors have ethical responsibilities to their patients, both alive and deceased, they have an even greater ethical responsibility to the community. Phillipa Malpas is correct that the police should have been informed once Shaun had died. And I would argue, the police should have been informed once he appeared to make a partial recovery as they were not in a position to determine he could not kill again.
Housing New Zealand fixes 'swamp' state house after tenant raises voice
Is there a plan in place for keeping all of our countrys social housing stock in good nick? And wouldnt turning off the toby be an easier fix if its just the overflow from the header tank? Or does the toby control the water to more than one flat? And when can someone come to my house to install free double glazing?
Party for more than 100 teens at rented home angers owner
Thats a gross failure of Airbnb to authenticate the user. They should worry.
Dave Armstrong: Lets stand up for decency on the buses
What a shame. As a Wellington Boys College student some 50 years ago we were expected to give up our seats to adults, or older forms if we were on the school buses otherwise youd get physically removed! Now that Im of an age that needs a seat, theyre going to take that privilege away :( I guess its time to drive the car to work instead.
New ANZ braille bank cards put 160 Wellington parking machines out of action
I was trying to use a snapper card today on the machine in upper Featherston Street, and it wasnt working. A parking warden was looking over my shoulder and said not to bother as electronic payments werent working this morning, and I had to find something called coins.
Prefabs touted as way forward in cutting housing shortage say surveyors
We are in the end of three years for our prefabricated house. Due to innumerable delays with engineers, architects, and bad advice from the WCC, we have only just got the piles in the ground. Prefab is not a panacea.
Dave Armstrong: Lets stand up for decency on the buses
That clip around the ear would now get you in court.
New Zealanders hungry and cold in their own homes this winter
The problem is, and has always been, political. Our grandparents and parents were taxed to build the dams, the power lines, the hydroelectric power stations etc. My relatives helped design the pylons that carried the electricity across the country. But who owns them and the power they generate now?Instead of spending tax payers money on token military upgrades we should be fixing the housing stock in this country to modern standards. Triple glaze every window and insulate for the benefit of future generations. But its going to cost $6k to retrofit just three windows in our flat. Impossible for most renters.
Air NZ's burgergate shows change is coming
Air New Zealand should be applauded for offering choices even though its sad that the impossible burger is only available to Business Premier customers. If Winston chose to fly coach, he wouldnt be offended as that choice would not be available to him.
Suburban Wellington's sea of grey roofs is frightening, architect says
One should choose a bright colour to reflect the suns rays and not absorb them. Thats one small thing we can do to mitigate climate change.
Dave Armstrong: Lets stand up for decency on the buses
well, we need to look at the evidence. How many people have been injured while standing on a city bus. Note also that people in seats are also unrestrained
Landlords: How tough do they have it, really?
And thats the gap in understanding between those who have and those who dont. The haves are willing to make sacrifices in lifestyle so that they can have investment property.
Data shows costs rising for New Zealand landlords
So rents should double when prices fall?
Jeremy Elwood & Michele A'Court: Migrant values are Kiwi values
Youre clearly not Kiwi enough. I remember the signs in Lambton Quay that said not to spit on the street, too many Kiwis used to do that. And try taking a bus and hearing metal music blasting from someones ear phones. Thats Kiwi too.
Huawei for dummies: Chinas tech company and why its been banned by our spies
This is easy enough to solve. Ask Huawei to provide the source code to their equipment under a non disclosure agreement. Thats how Microsoft Windows got into the USSR ... they got the source.
Capital gains tax punishes hard work
Im not arguing for communism which doesnt work. Im arguing for a narrowing of the gap between the obscenely rich and the have nots. Too many of the latter leads to social unrest and revolutions. Or, in NZs case, an enlarging prison population as well as ingrained generational dependency.
New Zealanders hungry and cold in their own homes this winter
If thats the case, it would be economic. Replacing an open fireplace with a retrofit clean burning wood burner is going to cost way much more than a $50 heater. Less for a heat pump but way more expensive.
Why is it so expensive to change a name on a flight ticket?
Correction, Ive had Air NZ staff demand ID such as passports for domestic flights but only if Im checking in luggage. Thats happened at small regional airports.
New Zealanders hungry and cold in their own homes this winter
The major component cost is not the glass, its the labour. So, if youre going to do it properly, then triple glaze when its appropriate. And in many parts of NZ where theres snow and ice in winter, triple glazing should be standard.
New Zealanders hungry and cold in their own homes this winter
It really depends on where you live in NZ. If youre down south, then triple glazed IGUs are necessary.
Capital gains tax punishes hard work
Nothing is fair in life and taxation is a part of that. What we should be doing is looking to create an equitable society where there is no unhealthy gap between the super rich, and the poor. Otherwise we end up with enclaves of gated communities amongst the poor with society the poorer on a whole. On one extreme we have communism like North Korea where wealth ends up concentrated in the hands of the political elite with no hope for those of wrong thought, and the USA where wealth ends up with the mega corporations or is inherited. Where is the balance?
Prefabs touted as way forward in cutting housing shortage say surveyors
We were advised by Wellington Water we could straddle the drains running across the property with a specified clearance on each side. Ready to go, and then they changed their minds and said that we had to dig the drains up, and resleeve them in concrete for them. That was going to be a mission since they were 3 m down with very limited access to the site for any heavy equipment. So, we had to move the house to avoid the drains.
Security breach at Auckland Airport delays flghts
because they might have passed a weapon to an accomplice already screened.
Buses, trains, taxis, parking machines - nothing in Wellington seems to work
Its just observer bias. Wellington works well enough for we.
Landlords: How tough do they have it, really?
So, increase the rent by $3.50 + whatever the legal costs are for increasing the mortgage.
Dave Armstrong: Lets stand up for decency on the buses
I think this is simply resolved. If you want to pay for a seat, then do so. If you just want to stand, then pay for standing only. Gold card users can then upgrade to a seat if they want one. If you want a seat for your shopping then buy another seat. Everyone wins and no one has to be educated on manners.