On Fri, 24 May 2024 12:41:01 +1200, Crash <
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wrote:
This cannot come soon enough:
https://tinyurl.com/2dlplcuu
Behind a paywall - you could have inserted a quote from the article -
your comment means little without being able to read the article
There is at least one comment about a Kainga Ora purchase in Kerikeri,
for an amount that homes.co.nz shows as demonstratively excessive,
robbing a charitable trust of land to expand the only community-owned >retirement village in town.
It seems certain that this level of spending has been repeated
elsewhere.
It has. The $274,000 so far for the report by Bill English is less
expensive than the work Steven Joyce is doing - he is being paid
$4,500 per day; Bill English only $2,500.
From one of the other stories linked from that page, it is interesting
that they took the money to pay English from money set aside for
''provision of transitional housing places"
https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/05/23/govt-paid-kainga-ora-reviewers-out-of-urgent-housing-fund/
"Transitional. Housing.
The urgent housing for people with nowhere to go, the budget for some
of the motels that governments have had to use for years, the funding
line to community providers to take in those on the edge.
The HUD website defines transitional housing as providing �temporary accommodation for individuals and whanau who don�t have anywhere to
live and urgently need a place to stay. It also offers tailored
support to help these individuals and whanau into longer-term
housing�."
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