Need for government housing intervention an unlearnt history lesson

“The idea that the private sector would provide decent, affordable housing was really a bit of a myth, from the colonial period onwards.”

Nick Grant
Tue, 25 Oct 2016

Ben Schrader’s new book, The Big Smoke: New Zealand Cities 1840-1920, seeks to dispel the tenacious myth that this is a predominantly rural nation and put the country’s urban centres at the, well, centre of the nation’s narrative.

The book also suggests the government currently suffers from a

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