The NIMBYs say no densification AND no sprawl, but they quite like the population growth and the cheaper services that go with that. They just don’t want them living anywhere near them, or on land that grows their food.
So they end up in the backs of cars and in boarding houses and lodges. Five of them burned to death a couple of weeks ago in one of those lodges, which was approved by regulators as fire safe, even though it had no sprinklers and the front door was barred.
And Wellington City Council has just discovered there are 25 more of these high density boarding houses in Wellington, four of which aren’t even approved as fire safe or fit for human habitation.
What the Actual Fuck Aotearoa.
“The residents’ groups also called (in reports in The Press-$$$ and The NZ Herald this morning) for a halt to greenfields housing developments in our two biggest cities as well, saying there was plenty of land already zoned for housing”
