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Social housing debate: ideology and emotion trumping common sense

There is a lot of tangle around this issue on both sides of the debate.

Rob Hosking
Mon, 03 Nov 2014

You can't live on an accommodation supplement" one interrogator grizzled at Social Housing Minister Paula Bennett over the weekend.

As observations go, it is a true one  though not, perhaps, particularly insightful or useful. Mrs Bennett did get herself into a mild tangle over the issue of

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Rob Hosking
Mon, 03 Nov 2014
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