Insulation Fund To Go
November 12th, 2008
$1bn of insulation retro-fitting for low income and elderly NZers’ low quality housing is almost certainly for the chop. The policy has unimpeachable long-term public health benefits because warmer, drier homes prevent asthma and other respiratory illness. However, the package was the price of the Greens’ support for Labour’s Emissions Trading Scheme, itself an early casualty of the change of Govt. National still proposes some, just far less, investment in improving NZ’s low quality housing stock.
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