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Hebe,
What would John Key's mother have done?
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The announcement by Housing New Zealand that it is closing all its client offices and will now require anyone in need of shelter to contact it by phone or internet – even though most of those in the greatest need have neither phone or internet access – is going to make it harder for people to get help with housing. That’s obvious.
Unpersons, much?
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Sam F, in reply to
What would John Key’s mother have done?
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The reason might be:
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Seems like McCully has closed his office and taken it one step further being out of touch completely.
Today, Key was asked why his minister won't front.
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From the link:
Housing Minister Phil Heatley was unavailable for comment today but he was quoted by local media as saying the changes were a part of a shift away from a "state house for life" housing policy, towards a new system designed to ensure those struggling the greatest were given priority.
Posted without comment, as my head is currently buried in my desk.
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Sacha, in reply to
What would John Key's mother have done?
cycled to her local post office #goodluckwiththat
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This report from the SST yesterday was very good.
A patchwork of voluntary bodies, raising funds from donations, trusts and philanthropists, fill the gap. Heatley says many of these organisations are "better placed" to holistically support the homeless than his department, Housing New Zealand, and suggests these faith-based groups "would consider it their core business, as being a Christian community" to offer that support.
Actually, it leaves Zussman depressed. "It's a vicious cycle," he says, "people say you are doing the work of the government, stop doing it, but that resolve of working for your fellow man doesn't let you do it, so we work bloody hard to let the government off the hook. It's a complete dilemma. But you sense that if you said 'here's the keys, we can't do it any more' ..." They would lock the doors and leave? "Yes."
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Edit: Redundant post removed.
Snap! What Giovanni linked to...
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James Butler, in reply to
faith-based groups “would consider it their core business, as being a Christian community” to offer that support.
"Faith-based groups" are often wonderful, but let's consider for a second the wisdom of offloading our social safety net onto groups whose "core business" is so open to wildly varying interpretations.
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Sacha, in reply to
Mission Australia, here we come. Should keep the Christian right onside for the 2014 election.
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JacksonP, in reply to
"Faith-based groups" are often wonderful, but let's consider for a second the wisdom of offloading our social safety net onto groups whose "core business" is so open to wildly varying interpretations.
Not to mention their roles as 'safety net' only exist as a result of societal failures. When giving a damn becomes the exclusive domain of faith-based groups, we are in trouble.
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Hebe, in reply to
When giving a damn becomes the exclusive domain of faith-based groups, we are in trouble.
Fracked eh.
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govt should not shirk their responsibilities to their people by letting charities do their work
this is simply not good enough
*please note my values are from a more people friendly recent past
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LET THEM EAT CAKE.
This is just nasty.
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James Butler, in reply to
Not to mention their roles as ‘safety net’ only exist as a result of societal failures.
I don't know about the "only". "Usually", sure. But I suspect that even in the best of all possible societies there would always be corner cases (by which I mean "people") who hit the net. Provided it's there.
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the changes were a part of a shift away from a "state house for life" housing policy, towards a new system designed to ensure those struggling the greatest were given priority.
So how does this give those struggling the greatest priority, exactly?
(And to descend to the trivial for a moment, who the hell subbed that syntactically appalling sentence?)
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Sacha, in reply to
Its another shift from universal (under)provision back to 'targetting' and pseudo-markets. Just like the 1990s (surprise). Being the current crop of clowns, that's unlikely to be driven by evidence; more a renewal of Victorian notions of the 'deserving poor'. And political advantage, naturally. At least this term there are more than one strong voice of opposition if they get their acts together.
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merc,
http://www.hnzc.co.nz/councils-and-community-organisations/community-groups/tamaki-transformation-programme/glen-innes-redevelopment
...when they kick in your front door, how you gonna come, with your hands on your head or the trigger of your gun, The Clash, Guns Of Brixton.
News on Concert prog this morning says prisoners on remand up 100% in 2 years -since (my opinion) privatisation.
Key's plan is pretty obvious...footnote, and creepy“Tamaki, where people thrive and prosper for generations, a place with a strong and vibrant community spirit, valued for its natural beauty and history”
...It is also an area ready for change. There are many houses in urgent need of repair and refurbishment. There is a high rate of unemployment, a lower than average household income, low decile schools and a high dependency on government assistance.http://www.hnzc.co.nz/councils-and-community-organisations/community-groups/tamaki-transformation-programme/tamaki-transformation-programme
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
govt should not shirk their responsibilities to their people by letting charities do their work.
Of course church-affiliated organisations are already an indispensable part of the welfare network in this part of the world - Presbyterian Social Services, for example, appears to be as big as the Salvation Army, though with a rather lower profile. While the ideological push to have them supplant the state's function has only emerged under the current Government, they'd sometimes become more proactive than the Government through sheer necessity in the Clark years.
It was the Christchurch Baptist City Mission that organised and delivered a petition for the Government to take action to curb the rapacious effect of loan sharks on the working poor. Chch Central MP Tim Barnett promised to bring it to Consumer Affairs Minister Judith Tizard's attention. And the Minister did absolutely nothing.
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It would be interesting to find out how much government money goes to 'faith-based', particularly fundamentalist Christian groups (as opposed to some milder ones such as Presbyterian support services, where being an active Christian isn't a job requirement). Many big Ministry of Health disability services contracts, and MSD contracts such as for parent education, and youth support already go to some major players (eg Open Home, Parents Inc).
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Ian MacKay, in reply to
I remember back in the 19th Century England how tough it was in the Poor House but that was my last resort. Mr Dickens spoke up for us but in vain. The Church and charities took me in when I was destitute because of course the Government was disinterested in we the fallen.
Now in 2012 Mr Heatly remarked that the Poor House was an excellent way to incentify those lazy bludgers to get off their butts and take care of themselves. After these remarks he climbed into his taxpayer funded BMW and was driven away. -
Rich of Observationz, in reply to
Wow. You must be what, 120? Glad to see such a wide age-range on here, congratulations, Sir!
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Even though many tenants will have no phone -- or only prepaid mobiles, from which 0800 numbers don't appear to be free calls
0800 numbers are free from prepaid mobiles. The called company may choose to block calls from mobiles, but HNZ don't.
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Dave C beat me to it.
In the meantime we can play guess the tunes they will play while you’re on hold. -
Martin Lindberg, in reply to
In the meantime we can play guess the tunes they will play while you're on hold.
Blondie - Hanging on the Telephone
Lionel Richie - Helloand from this century:
James Blake - Why Don't You Call Me
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