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An industrial-scale state house building programme to end the housing crisis for citizens on low incomes 

  •  We’ve solved housing crisis’s  in the past
  • We know how to do it
  • It must be done again

The petition for an industrial-scale state house building programme is here

It is the first stage in a campaign to get the government to meet the housing crisis head on.

The petition can be signed by individuals and organisations.

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State Housing Action Network ~ Sale of 86a Beachville Road Redcliffs

 Letter To Christchurch City Council 

9 March 2022

The Mayor and Councillors

Christchurch City Council

mayor@ccc.govt.nz

councillors@ccc.govt.nz

Kia ora koutou,

Sale of 86a Beachville Road Redcliffs

At a time when the Salvation Army tells us we have a “housing catastrophe” it is barely believable that former council-owned land at 86a Beachville Road in Redcliffs is being sold by the Otautahi Community Housing Trust.

This is wrong headed at every level and we would like the council to insist that

OCHT withdraw this property from the market. The overall health and wellbeing of those struggling without warm, dry, affordable housing in Christchurch outweighs the niceties of who is responsible for this sale. The council must step on toes to have the sale halted.

We understand the reason the property is being sold is because there is “no demand” for public housing in Redcliffs and therefore the land can be sold and the money used to build houses in lower-income areas of Christchurch.

This is appalling reasoning. It is not accurate nor helpful and it is deeply prejudiced. There is the need for public rental housing in every suburb of Christchurch if we are to avoid the ghettoisation of public rental housing in the city.

We need affordable housing for the elderly and infirm, for tenants and families on low incomes and for those putting their lives back together. It must be a shared community effort without expecting low income communities already struggling to do the heavy lifting for the citizens of Redcliffs and other higher-income suburbs.

There is time to have this property withdraw from the market and we expect the council to do the right thing for all of Christchurch. 

We hope to hear from you shortly.

Ngā mihi.

Na,

John Minto

Convenor

State House Action Network

0220850161

johnminto@orcon.net.nz

 


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The rewards for forty years of economic and social dogma litter the landscape, from dilapidated and understaffed hospitals to the housing crisis.

From the asset stripping of the 1980's to the pursuit of a low wage economy in the 1990's an endless litany of destruction and waste pervades society - then the pandemic.
  • It was clear well before Covid 19 that “business as usual” had failed most of us
  • To go back to “business as usual” will simply carry forward the myriad of social and economic problems from the pre-pandemic era.
 
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