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Covid 19 coronavirus: Anxiety high among South Auckland kids despite move to level 2
19 Feb, 2021 09:02 PM
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Auckland will move to alert level 2 at midnight tonight, the rest of the country will move to alert level 1.
Auckland will move to alert level 2 at midnight tonight, the rest of the country will move to alert level 1.
Local Democracy Reporter
While the level 2 announcement brought a sigh of relief for many across Auckland, as Justin Latif reports, South Aucklanders are still concerned about what this latest Covid outbreak may mean for the region.
Another South Auckland outbreak of Covid has community support workers concerned about the impact it s having on the mental health of its young people.
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Owning a home provides security that no amount of rental law cannot.
The trouble is that house prices do not reflect the cost of owning a home. They reflect the cost of the expected medium-term capital gains (post bright-line). It wasn t a problem when they reflected the expected gains upon retirement and downsizing, but now who honestly expects to be in that house for thirty years? Or do they
expect to flip it in ten years or so?
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Agree with the security bit. I ve seen the pro s and cons of home ownership debated at length in New Zealand literature. They re pretty even.