For an hour tomorrow, every professional firefighter in New Zealand will go on strike. It’s never happened before and is the low-point of ongoing conflict between FENZ and the union.
I'm a 69 year old woman, living happily and harmlessly on my boat. I have some money invested - nowhere near enough to buy a place in a retirement village, but enough to live simply on my boat. And yet I, and my friends in the same situation, all live with a constant dread as various council members stand up and decide we shouldn't be allowed to live this way and that Something Should Be Done to prevent people from living on boats.
They should be shaking us by the hand. Where would we live if we were thrown off our boats? Either on the street - or in subsidised housing because none of us could afford to rent, even if we could find a rental.
Councils' intransigence and insistence on gentrifying, refusing to allow tiny homes, etc is more than a little to blame for the sad situation of many of my peers and elders.
I'm a 69 year old woman, living happily and harmlessly on my boat. I have some money invested - nowhere near enough to buy a place in a retirement village, but enough to live simply on my boat. And yet I, and my friends in the same situation, all live with a constant dread as various council members stand up and decide we shouldn't be allowed to live this way and that Something Should Be Done to prevent people from living on boats.
They should be shaking us by the hand. Where would we live if we were thrown off our boats? Either on the street - or in subsidised housing because none of us could afford to rent, even if we could find a rental.
Councils' intransigence and insistence on gentrifying, refusing to allow tiny homes, etc is more than a little to blame for the sad situation of many of my peers and elders.