A bid to get $50 million added into the city council's budget for social housing has failed amid concerns about the council's spiralling debt. The push to get the money added into council's Three Year Plan (TYP) was led by Cr Yani Johanson, who argued the money was essential to ensuring the council could fix all its quake damaged housing stock. He told councillors that putting money into social housing had to be the council's top priority "ahead of building things like a rugby stadium''. He acknowledged that...
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