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Duncan Disorderly
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Suburban disorder: Can’t beat ’em, join ’em?

OPINION: Auckland is repeating the leaky building crisis and building tomorrow’s slums.

NBR columnist Duncan Garner speaks with Calida Stuart-Menteath

Duncan Garner Tue, 01 Nov 2022

I’m starting to hate Auckland, I really am.

There’s a war going on in our suburbs. Heavy machines turn up and a day later they’re gone and so is the house that has sat there since day dot.

Decades in the ground, moments to destroy and demolish. Only a handful recycle any of the materials.

The

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