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Elizabeth Sisson – Paying the price for unhealthy homes

December 16, 2008

So there’s this house in Flaxmere. It’s an older home in a street of older homes. A single mother –  call her Ms. Jones – and her three young kids live in the house. Next door is home to a large, friendly, extended family of Pacific Islanders. And across the street an elderly woman lives [...]

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Elizabeth Sisson – Homeless in Hawke’s Bay

November 13, 2008

In the hierarchy of human needs, a place to live is right up there. A country as focused on the well-being of its residents as New Zealand should put a high priority on housing for everyone. So how’s it going in Hawke’s Bay in the current global economic downturn? First, if you don’t have a [...]

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Elizabeth Sisson – Coping with an economic slump

September 19, 2008

Much of the news about the global economy is bad, and pain certainly is being felt here as Hawke’s Bay people check out of supermarkets, pay for petrol and buy fertilizer. The elderly and others on fixed incomes, people lacking skills and education, the unlucky in real estate and other ventures are the worst off, [...]

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