HOUSING
Gordon Campbell: On the privatising of state housing provision, by stealth
Ben Thomas (Post): The scandalous, wasted opportunities of a spend-happy housing agency (paywalled)
Ireland Hendry-Tennent (Newshub): Chris Hipkins defends Kāinga Ora after scathing review, lashing from Christopher Luxon
Liam Hehir (The Blue Review): The Kieran McAnulty Paper Company (paywalled)
Tumamao Harawira (Te Ao Māori News): Concerns for most vulnerable following scathing Kāinga Ora report
Herald: Why are so many Kiwis sleeping rough? (paywalled)
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Housing Minister Chris Bishop admits Government scrapping First Home Grants unpopular, will 'cause some pain'
Luke Malpass (Post): Govt puts policy - and poorest - first in jettisoning First Home Grant (paywalled)
Molly Swift (Newshub): Labour leader Chris Hipkins says Government is 'smashing' first homeownership dreams if it scraps grants
Molly Swift (Newshub): Government announces immediate end to First Home Buyer Grants to fund 1500 social housing places
RNZ: Christchurch homeowner's house featured in social housing post
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): How much have First Home Grants really been helping buyers?
RNZ: Stringent criteria blamed for lower than expected uptake of first home buyer grants
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): The First Home Grant is gone, what will that mean for buyers?
Maddy Croad and Hanna McCallum (Post): First home buyer ‘let down’ by Government’s plan to scrap grants (paywalled)
Catherine Masters (One Roof): First home grant axed: What the Government changes mean for first time buyers
Katie Scotcher (RNZ): First homes grant scrapped: 'It sets you back'
Kerre Woodham (Newstalk ZB): Hardworking Kiwis deserve a reward too
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): Housing policies should address needs - not wants
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Social housing must take priority over the First Home Buyers Grant
RNZ: Government confirms First Home Grants to be scrapped
Felix Desmarais (1News): First Home Grant cut — 1500 social homes in its place
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Government scraps home grants but funds more places for CHPs - no new funding for Kāinga Ora
Dan Brunskil (Interest): Government scraps First Home Grant
Anna Whyte (Post): First home buyers’ grant scrapped
Liam Hehir (The Blue Review): The "tax cuts for landlords" canard
Annemarie Quill (Stuff): What you can rent for $300 pw in NZ's priciest region - must like dogs
FAST-TRACK BILL, MINING
Brent Edwards (NBR): Government has lost the narrative on its fast-track bill (paywalled)
Andrea Vance (Post): Shane Jones wants more mining – to save the planet (paywalled)
Nicholas Boyack (Post): Upper Hutt council’s fast tracking ‘schemozzle’ (paywalled)
Andrew Gunn: The Fast-Track Approvals Bill Explained By A Cow (paywalled)
ECONOMY, BUDGET, COST OF LIVING
Max Rashbrooke (Spinoff): The real meaning of tax relief
Chelsea Daniels (Herald): Budget 2024: What we know one week out and will Kiwis get the tax cut they were promised?
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Voters, including Wellingtonians and Labour and Green supporters, back spending cuts to fund tax plan
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Five data points that show the New Zealand economy may be in worse shape than you think
Richard Harman (Politik): Orr’s warning; three years of austerity (paywalled)
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Reserve Bank and financial markets at odds over timing of first OCR cut (paywalled)
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Reserve Bank considered lifting interest rates to offset a decline in productivity which is making inflation worse
David Hargreaves (Interest): Another hawkish surprise: RBNZ leaves OCR unchanged but increases chances of future hike
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): OCR unchanged at 5.5% but rate cuts may be further away than expected (paywalled)
onathan Mitchell (NBR: Hawkish RBNZ: Hike discussed, rate cut kicked down the road (paywalled)
Luke Malpass (Post): Adrian Orr vows that monetary policy will win the day (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Reserve Bank holds official cash rate at 5.5 percent
Rebecca Howard (BusinessDesk): The RBNZ turns more hawkish, still worried (paywalled)
Jonathan Mitchell (NBR): 12 months on: OCR stays on hold at 5.5% (paywalled)
MIchael Reddell: Reading the MPS numbers thinking about the fiscal situation
Amy Williams (RNZ): Dozens of free budgeting services face closure after missing out on funding
Ella Somers (Interest): KiwiSaver early withdrawals for home ownership fall while financial hardship withdrawals continue to rise
Ella Somers (Interest): Retirement Commission says no improvement to KiwiSaver gender savings balances gap as new research finds men have 25% more than women in their KiwiSaver on average
GOVERNMENT, DAVID MACLEOD UNDECLARED DONATIONS
Stuff: ‘Where did the money go?’: Unanswered questions about National MP David Macleod's political donations
Grant Duncan: How much money does a candidate need? David MacLeod's predicament
Laura Walters (Newsroom): Christopher Luxon the disciplinarian
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