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A decade on, a tale of two cities

A decade on, a tale of two cities Newsroom 18/02/2021 © Provided by Newsroom Post-quake Christchurch has come a long way in 10 years, but is, in part, a confusion of contrasts and contradictions. Have our expectations been too high? David Williams reports Ann Brower doesn’t mind being in central Christchurch, which is surprising, really. On February 22, 2011, the bus she was riding along Colombo St was crushed by building debris – the parapet and façade of an unreinforced masonry building – after a 6.3 magnitude quake hit, killing 185 people. Twelve people died beside her. In Brower’s remarkable first-person piece from 2017, the University of Canterbury Associate Professor writes: “I’m the only one left, the lucky 13th.”

Judith Collins suggests National and Labour fix housing crisis together by copying Canterbury quake response

Collins is proposing a law change that would give the Government power to rezone council land, making room for 30 years worth of growth in housing supply, both through intensification - or focusing on compact urban growth - and building on land that has never been used, referred to as greenfield development.  The appeals process would be suspended so district plans could be completed as quickly as possible, Collins said. Requirements for infrastructure to be built prior to zoning would also be suspended. She said it would be a nationwide equivalent of the emergency powers put in place to get houses built in Christchurch following the 2010 and 2011 Canterbury earthquakes. 

Collins suggests National and Labour fix housing crisis together by copying Canterbury quake response

Collins suggests National and Labour fix housing crisis together by copying Canterbury quake response Newshub 26/01/2021 © Newshub Watch Judith Collins speech live. Judith Collins has suggested National and Labour fix the housing crisis together by passing similar laws that allowed fast-tracked building following the Canterbury earthquakes.  At her State of the Nation speech in Auckland on Tuesday, Collins said the time had come for an extraordinary solution to an unfolding emergency as house prices and rents continue to increase across New Zealand.  New Zealanders have had enough. It s time for the two major political parties to work together to fix this problem, Collins said. 

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