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Hot Topic Hawke’s Bay
Hot Topic Hawke’s Bay
Opinion
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‘Ghost house’ better than a trashed house

Hidesight: Auckland mayor wants to force empty-home owners to take tenants.

Rodney Hide
Wed, 05 Feb 2020

Auckland mayor Phil Goff wants to use government power to fill what he calls “ghost houses.” These are houses using next-to-no electricity, presumably because no one is living in them. 

Goff calls them ghost houses. We call them baches, houses we haven’t got around to doing up, apartments

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Rodney Hide
Wed, 05 Feb 2020
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