Posts by Amanda Wreckonwith
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Hard News: The uncooling of the inner West, in reply to Jack Harrison,
first three huge apartment blocks must be in Epsom because that’s where populace needs to be to service Auckland’s economy
Why?
Again this seems to assume that the CBD is the centre of all activity in Auckland. I wish people would have a good drive around all the outlying suburbs and see the vast numbers of small businesses that surround us. Sure, they are mostly SMEs but the numbers of employees must be staggering when totalled up. All the roads around Auckland are jammed at rush hour - not just in and out of the CBD -
Hard News: The uncooling of the inner West, in reply to Russell Brown,
and I think I’m entitled to a view that it’s going to make my ’hood less interesting.
And I agree with and welcome your opinion - it's just that your tone reminded me of my fuddy-duddy parents bemoaning the fact that their new neighbours lead a 'different' life to theirs. They will probably vote for UKIP next year. Can't pick family...
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Hard News: The uncooling of the inner West, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
and it hasn’t changed much in seven years
Maybe it will and maybe it won't. If you can make a foolproof prediction then you should be a developer. I was told the same thing about Kingsland in 1996. Russell's Point Chev took from 1984. Perhaps Onehunga needs a few more years.
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Hard News: The uncooling of the inner West, in reply to Russell Brown,
I don’t see how placing even fewer limits on capital gains is going to ease the housing bubble – quite the reverse, in fact. And allowing rental agreements to be even looser in the landlord’s favour is the opposite of the kind of long-term occupancy Sam was talking about.
Try the other end of that stick Russell. I want more restrictions.
The problem with lots of apartments being built is that the majority are bought by landlords rather than owner occupiers. The high density housing that you favour in central areas will likely remain to of the reach of the market you would target. Those new 1 and 2 bedders in Grey Lynn could hardly be called starter homes for a young family.
Change may come in many forms. Perhaps satellite communities on the North Shore, South and West Auckland will spring up that will foster the cultural phenomena that happened in Ponsonby/Grey Lynn. Society is fracturing so holding on to some old paradigm of a minimum size for a viable community seems less valid. I'm hardly an expert on NZ music scene but isolation and a cheap cost of living didn't seem to serve Dunedin too badly in the past. Maybe the Ranui Sound is the next big thing.
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Hard News: The uncooling of the inner West, in reply to Steve Barnes,
decided to build more state houses.
They don't even have to be state houses. We just have to make sure the restrictions placed on landlords, rental agreements and capital gains are conducive to a rental culture.
The fear of a 'feral' future life is one of the drivers of the crazy price spiral.
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Hard News: The uncooling of the inner West, in reply to bob daktari,
inner city refugees
- and aren’t these ‘refugees’ akin to the ones that traditionally gave us the diversity that we are seeking? Alternative and marginalised folk are the progenitors of the ‘culture’ that sprang up in Grey Lynn, Ponsonby and elsewhere.
Culture is organic. It thrives on change not stagnation.
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Hard News: The uncooling of the inner West, in reply to Russell Brown,
hoping for policies that will bring in more young adults to live in my neighbourhood.
But you presumably moved to Point Chev as it was affordable and moderately central. Other people found the same and joined you. The area developed a culture that you were a part of. That culture and a convenient location made the suburb desirable. The price of property rose. Young people were dissuaded from the moving to the area. Barring some control on the price of those properties, I can't see any way that could have been prevented.
Holding on to the past is unlikely to succeed. Rather than developing policy to bring more young people into your area, why don't you follow the young people to the suburbs that they are moving to? Why can this culture not develop in those areas like it did in Grey Lynn, Ponsonby and Point Chev?
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Hard News: The uncooling of the inner West, in reply to Samuel Scott,
UKIP is not a fair comparison
Yes - the hyperbole was uncalled for. The comparison is a tad stretched...
I still think that the post is a paean to past. The writing was on the wall when I lived there in the mid 90's. Your sad fact of economics was inevitable.
The young population has moved. The culture you seek and want to be part of will accompany them. Just let me know where you settle so I can get in early with the real-estate purchase. And so it continues...
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Hard News: The uncooling of the inner West, in reply to Samuel Scott,
But The Hutt is changing for the better very quickly and getting really nice.
Yup. And my point is about Russell regretting change. Just like the whines from UKIP.
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'A whole set of cultural assumptions about about these places – diverse, bohemian, liberal – seem likely to have gone with the young adult population.'
Damn. As an old person I will have to forego those possible attributes then. It's a good job I live in a rural area where I'm free to be illiberal...
Come on Russell - this reads like a UKIP post in the Torygraph - Oh No! things around me are changing!
Maybe it is time to act like you did in the mid 80's and think outside the square. Life outside of LuvieLand is not as bad as you may suppose .