Platforms like Airbnb have been blamed for reducing the rental housing supply and pushing up rents. But investors seeking more security might now want to offer their properties to long-term renters.
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If you know your own personality traits, you might then be better placed to resist your worst unthinking impulses in a time of high anxiety.
The media is regurgitating an international narrative that may not be fit for localised purpose.
Countries have tried a variety of approaches to contain the spread of COVID-19 – except a coordinated one.
With social activities shut down across the country, many are wondering: how long will people stick to the rules, before they get complacent?
Improving the housing conditions of the most marginalised people among us is an important biosecurity measure for the whole community.
New Zealanders are preparing to stay at home for four weeks to stop the spread of COVID-19. Under existing laws, people who flout lockdown rules could face fines or six months in jail.
Overjoyed. That’s not a word epidemiologists normally use, but that’s how I felt after hearing Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s announcement of New Zealand’s COVID-19 lockdown from Wednesday night.
More than one-in-16 people in New Zealand is a migrant without residence status. For everyone’s sake, to contain COVID-19 we need to ensure those 300,00 people can access health and social services.
Many people don’t realise high-income earners are the biggest users of public transport in Australian cities, but it’s still low-income earners who are most vulnerable to service disruptions.
The policy of self-isolation fails to take into account the fact that many poor and low-income people cannot afford to do it.
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