カテゴリー: Communities
A year on from devastating floods, a renowned architect is leading a project to build affordable and sustainable homes while empowering communities in the processA year ago, Shani Dana’s mudbrick house was swept away in the worst floods on record to hi…
Cohousing offers a vision of connected, community-based living – but the path to realising the dream can be far from smooth “Welcome to the site of hope and heartbreak.”With these words Bronwen Newton greets visitors to a quarter-acre gravel carpark be…
Tinder profiles reveal desperate reality of trying to buy a home as survey shows housing is the number one concern for Kiwis, ranked above Covid“It is a truth universally acknowledged,” Jane Austen wrote in 1813, “that a single man in possession of a g…
‘Operation warm welcome’ for 20,000 Afghans could come unstuck for lack of suitable housing, campaigners warnThe government last night unveiled “operation warm welcome” for the thousands of arriving Afghans, but campaigners immediately expressed concer…
Government urged to provide more funds so new arrivals can access accommodation and other supportCouncils across the UK have said they are happy to provide accommodation for people fleeing Afghanistan but say they do not have sufficient housing stock t…
Crisis has been marked by escalating rents, high rates of homelessness and substandard conditions New Zealand’s housing crisis has become a “massive human rights failure”, the Human Rights Commission has said, as it launches a national inquiry into the…
Activists were shot and beaten at demonstration to stop property giant Bahria Town building on indigenous land they say was taken with forceMuhammad Anwar was not aware of any danger when he took the day off work to join his friends at a demonstration …
Jacinda Ardern announces more support for first homebuyers and measures to dampen property speculation but admits its no ‘silver bullet’The New Zealand government has announced a series of billion-dollar measures aimed at tackling the country’s housing…
Kavita Puri’s Three Pounds in My Pocket is an extensive oral history of the lives of Indian and Pakistani migrants and their families, from partition to Cornershop“A lot of them had survived partition, they were living in difficult conditions, working …
Owner of a home that measures just 8m by 3m wins high profile three-year legal battle with government over rates and regulationsYachts and caravans have all served as home for Alan Dall but it is his tiny house in Canterbury that has finally claimed hi…
The independent Ilkhom theatre in Tashkent opened under Soviet rule in 1976A cherished independent theatre in Uzbekistan is fighting eviction after realestate developers in the booming capital selected its historic location for a new business centre.Th…
Superintendent says after two shootings in the North Island on the weekend that officers alone can’t tackle growing problemIn a part of New Zealand where escalating tension between gangs has erupted into violence, police say the matter is well beyond t…