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    House-price shame

    Dec 27, 2020 4 minutes

    Shame on me that my hardworking grandchildren are confronted with house prices (Editorial, November 28) that are a hundred times what their grandmother and I paid for our first home in 1967. We have brought this about by declining to train our own people while building a derisory number of homes.

    In Blenheim, we’re erecting a palatial $20 million library when what we needed was satellite housing on less-expensive land in nearby Seddon, which, crucially, is linked to us by rail. This would have revitalised one of our rural communities so it could regain a post office, police station and other essentials

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