Steffen

Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 08:08 UTC

Looks ok at the minute, no weird posts or anything.

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 03:36 UTC

correction. lil lux.

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 03:34 UTC

I refused to call him his name anymore. Big Lux is a cooker.

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 03:31 UTC

This is what Bishy meant, yeah?

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 03:25 UTC

Let me build

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 03:23 UTC

Petition to start building a Kowloon Walled City inspired neighbourhood in Epsom.

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 02:57 UTC

I can definitely see it being an issue in a lot of major US cities. The NYC housing landscape is something I haven't delved into at all. Strikes me as immensely complex.

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 02:53 UTC

I only care about that if the market has somehow broken and affordable apartments aren't being built while massive units like this are. We are not there, though. Far from it.

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 02:52 UTC

I don't have a great understanding of things like autism etc that they had included in their bio so have tried not to read into why it was happening too much, but yeah.

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 02:39 UTC

There's something reassuring about people like you, Sarah, and @sjponeill.bsky.social commenting on it 😅

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 02:35 UTC

I heavily gave them the benefit of the doubt because of details in their bio and a level of trust granted by them being followed by people I respect. Still, it was like being hit by a whirlwind and then when I pushed back being accused of all sorts of shit. Head was spinning.

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 02:31 UTC

I've heard banks are sometimes reluctant to lend against dual key apartments, too. They're rental enshittification personified.

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 02:23 UTC

I don't know if this was behind the interaction I had earlier but it's definitely making me think about it.

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 01:28 UTC

Agree on the waffle maker. Is this a pokemon-specifc machine or does it do other shapes, too?

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 01:24 UTC

how

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 00:48 UTC

Too busy reading whatever self-help book Luxon prescribed

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 00:41 UTC

Think you're right on the maximum size self-regulating here, though. Not so much in other countries. We do have to keep an eye on it, and I can see how it might be useful in places like Queenstown if applied to housing more broadly.

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 00:35 UTC

OK, but there's a few things that make me tilt towards assuming the best here. Their bio, their obvious good intention in resisting limitless liberalism, and we have followers in common. Based on this I just choose to assume the best and that internet conversations are hard sometimes.

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 00:30 UTC

I think that's harsh. I put this interaction down to a difference in communication styles and perspectives. It's not so much politeness as an active effort from me to try to understand where someone is coming from and engage in good faith.

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 23:53 UTC

Haha, it's nothing that needs an apology! All good. It's a very splintered world in the post Musk Twitter era.

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 23:46 UTC

Again, I don't think that. I don't think you're stupid, I don't think you're arrogant, I'm genuinely just trying to understand a view that I truly don't think applies to the housing market here at the moment.

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 23:44 UTC

What? I haven't decided that at all. I'm not sure what's even happening here to be honest. I don't think you hold those views?

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 23:43 UTC

I wasn't trying to be snarky or have a dig at you, I just thought that might explain the difference in views here.

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 23:43 UTC

I don't think we're having the same discussion at the moment. We seem to be coming at this issue from completely different lived-experience. Your perspective might be 100% accurate in some countries/cities. It is not the issue facing Aotearoa.

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 23:41 UTC

You know I'm talking about Aotearoa (New Zealand), yeah? Where we simply don't have the issue you're talking about but absolutely have an issue with not enough apartments being built at all?

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 23:36 UTC

You have to be kidding

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 23:36 UTC

I'm not talking about 'on things'. I'm talking about apartment floor sizes. There's nothing wrong with building a four bedroom apartment. That's not what is restricting housing supply. Having a minimum apartment size limit *is* restricting supply.

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 23:33 UTC

Technically, yes, that's a policy choice. Practically though, defining a maximum apartment size would be either pointless or harmful or both. Removing minimum sizes adds far more housing than adding a maximum.

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 23:20 UTC

I also highly recommend giving @benakl.bsky.social a follow. He's a qualified, professional planner who does this stuff for a living and knows the fine detail.

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 23:19 UTC

Another concern people have is around protecting farming land. The trigger for this was Bish announcing councils wouldn't be able to set a hard Rural/Urban boundary anymore.

That's true, but there's far more to it than this line that some cities currently define:

bsky.app/profile/stef...

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 23:15 UTC

Thread here I made while reading through it. bsky.app/profile/stef...

Lots of folk still have trauma around leaky buildings but *nothing* in his announcement made leaky buildings more likely than they are right now.

Lots of NZ is intensifying rapidly already. This just makes that easier.

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 23:04 UTC

It's totally ok, no hard feelings at all. I've been posting *a lot* about this lately. I heavily agree with most of what Bishop announced in his speech this week. I heavily disagree with almost everything else he's done.

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 23:02 UTC

I'm also happy to repeat this until the cows come home, for what it's worth: this government is a band of crooks, Bishop is a prick, defunding KO is a crime.

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 23:01 UTC

Thanks. For the record, all it is a commentary on is a resistance to intensifying cities and increasing housing density. 'Don't let them build bland houses' is a common argument from people who don't want town houses or apartments in their neighbourhood.

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 22:52 UTC

You clearly don't have any idea what I'm referencing here so please don't come at me with this shit. Clue? It was nothing to do with the government or Bishop's speech.

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 22:51 UTC

You can throw TERFS in them

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 22:19 UTC

Important to avoid the accidental development of a chemical weapon

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 22:12 UTC

"Don't let developers build bland houses" because it's better to live in a Nissan than a boring house.

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Steffen @steffenrusten.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 22:11 UTC

Stealing this.

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