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'Blaming poor people will get us nowhere,' Shamubeel Eaqub says

Growing support for Phil Twyford's housing report suggests the government can have a real impact on the crisis.

Nathan Smith
Thu, 22 Feb 2018

Economist Shamubeel Eaqub is having none of former MP Rodney Hide’s counterargument that poor parenting should be blamed along with government policies for the housing crisis.

“Rodney needs to get off this blinkered BS he’s been on for so long,” Mr Eaqub says.

“He needs to look at the

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Nathan Smith
Thu, 22 Feb 2018
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