I just had to share this bit of props to NZ.
Read this article on the state housing waitlist.
It's amazing that the waitlist for public housing is only 31 people long in our region, and what's more amazing is that it makes the news when it is. Given that I used to work for a provincial housing authority covering a population approximately the size of New Zealand with a waitlist that totaled over 10,000 people, I am impressed that the numbers are this low and that the wait is not so long that most people don't get the chance to be helped.
Say what you want about things being a bit old-fashioned or backwards here but they certainly seem to be able to approach need in a way that makes a difference. Even the welfare here is pretty reasonable for people, which is great - there is a student category of allowance too. New Plymouth doesn't have the same levels of poverty that we would see in Auckland but even there it's not so rampant as we've seen in other cities we've lived in.
Just the kind of things that we see in the news here. I know many of you still don't completely see why we want to live here but how the society operates in the realm of social support factors in - even if we aren't drawing upon it, we know it affects the overall happiness and goodness of the country.
We're not trying to be all high and mighty about where we live but sometimes it makes sense to share some of these little snapshots of life here beyond our bubble of work and friends and home renovations.
Read this article on the state housing waitlist.
It's amazing that the waitlist for public housing is only 31 people long in our region, and what's more amazing is that it makes the news when it is. Given that I used to work for a provincial housing authority covering a population approximately the size of New Zealand with a waitlist that totaled over 10,000 people, I am impressed that the numbers are this low and that the wait is not so long that most people don't get the chance to be helped.
Say what you want about things being a bit old-fashioned or backwards here but they certainly seem to be able to approach need in a way that makes a difference. Even the welfare here is pretty reasonable for people, which is great - there is a student category of allowance too. New Plymouth doesn't have the same levels of poverty that we would see in Auckland but even there it's not so rampant as we've seen in other cities we've lived in.
Just the kind of things that we see in the news here. I know many of you still don't completely see why we want to live here but how the society operates in the realm of social support factors in - even if we aren't drawing upon it, we know it affects the overall happiness and goodness of the country.
We're not trying to be all high and mighty about where we live but sometimes it makes sense to share some of these little snapshots of life here beyond our bubble of work and friends and home renovations.
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