[This originally appeared in the Spinoff Ātea during their Rent Week series] It was reported in January that Tauranga now outranks Auckland as New Zealand’s most unaffordable city and in the city’s pressured rental market, landlords these days have their pick of tenants and of rental price. If those landlords track the national average, 80% of… Read More What it’s like to be a solo mum searching for a rental
At a Tauranga City Council Monitoring Committee meeting yesterday, the Bay of Plenty Times reported that the Greerton Village Community Association manager Sally Benning made particular note of “three or four gentlemen” who are homeless in the area and “two beggars” as causing “problems.” Apparently the problems include sleeping in the alcove of Greerton Hall… Read More Fear of a brown planet: running screaming from the homeless in Greerton, Tauranga
Paul Foster-Bell is not a name that should concern any of us. He is a list MP for National who has made no impact in the two or three years he has been in Parliament. Yes, he has been paid excessively for under-achievement, but that’s not abnormal in Parliament on all sides of the House,… Read More Paul Foster-Bell & how distant Parliament is from real human beings
‘When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, and he will put the… Read More The injustice of consumption: how Tauranga is consuming the planet and the poor
Tauranga City Council has just completed its latest housing valuations from which it will determine the rates we pay for the next few years. Our personal house and property value jumped a massive 22 percent from the previous valuation. Only 28 percent of that increase was improvements to the house; the majority can really only… Read More My (over-priced) house, my castle? Tauranga’s catching Auckland’s housing fever
If the admiring New Zealand Herald coverage given to Brandon Lipman’s ascension to his own property investment portfolio is anything to go by, the New Zealand mythology of the right to home ownership, the quarter acre section, has been decisively dethroned. The interregnum, a period of disquiet and uncertainty about the prospects for the middle… Read More A home is not an asset: the flawed belief of the property investor in selling our social housing
[Disclosure Statement: These are my views, not those of Tauranga Moana Safe City. I have never worked for Tauranga Moana Safe City; however I worked on joint projects with Mike Mills when I was the Manager of the Merivale Community Centre and when I was contracted to run the White Ribbon Campaign events in 2013.… Read More Council community development bureaucrats behead Tauranga Moana Safe City
I have not been in a kapa since before my eldest child was born and I have never been in a serious kapa. In part that is a matter of the time that is available with young children, but it is also because I am not particularly good. I seem to struggle to retain words, I get… Read More E ara e hika e! The Battle of Gate Pā and the battle to remember
Close to the time of his death, my ancestor, Tutereinga, was asked where he wished to be buried. He answered: E koro ana mate koe, e hiahia ana koe kia takato koe i te taha o mātua e moe mai rā i te tihi o Mauao? E kao, ēngari me moe ahau ki Tahataharoa kia rongo ai… Read More Developing injustice: Māori, land developers and the future of grievance
WARNING: This is not a positive feel-good Waitangi Day column. I begin as did Paulo Freire: To the oppressed, and to those who suffer with them, and fight at their side. This image appeared in the NZ Herald newspaper on Waitangi Day:Like others, I hope the use of a White Power image was inadvertent, though… Read More Waitangi: it’s time to break the leash
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