As New Zealand moves to alert level two, I wrote about life under lockdown in my neighbourhood for Al Jazeera English. #lockdownnz #COVID19nz

The sharp end of the housing crisis, at one emergency housing hotel, as told to me by the people who live there. Stuff Dom Post stuff.co.nz/national/12503…

I wrote a mostly true short story, set against the casual bigotry of an all boys' school, in which the narrator bunks class to go to KFC with their best friend. It's been published in the new issue of Landfall Tauraka NZ 🎉🙌 🎉 Big thanks to @EmEnSpace for giving the story a home

Very cool to make this elite squad. Especially considering the super talented writers in its ranks. Thanks Newsroom 📚

This is not my message. My message is that we are committed to city housing and we need to complete upgrades for all tenants. Government should help us out here with income related rent subsidies. stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/…

There is a little-known two-tier system within social housing. Thousands of tenants are paying the price. I looked into the needless complexities around the income-related rental subsidy, and the case for Wellington City Council tenants (and others) to have access. i.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/our-…

I spoke to Chamfy, @oscaroverflow (@CityAklccrg), Isla Stewart and Imagining an Alternative Approach to Housing about apartment living, and how dense developments along public transport lines are good for the environment🍃🌳🏠With special thanks to @eloise_gibson and The Forever Project stuff.co.nz/environment/cl…

Cut off from an income-related rental subsidy (IRRS), Wellington City Council housing tenants are less equal than other social housing tenants. I wrote about how that policy entrenches inequality, and how extending the subsidy – at only $13.2m a year – would change lives stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/1265…

My essay, White-Knuckled Guilt, has been commended in this year's Landfall Tauraka NZ Essay Competition — really stoked about that! Thanks to Landfall and outgoing editor @EmEnSpace, who judged the competition. Congrats to the winners and other commended writers 🤙otago.ac.nz/press/news/ota…

Christchurch people: Madeleine Ashton-Martyn and I are in the city today, and want to hit up your best second-hand bookstores. Pls give us your recommendations! (So far we’re planning to stop by the neighbouring bookshops on Ferry Rd.)

I followed five students, over several months, as they tried to find a flat in Wellington. Their options: take on thousands more dollars in student debt, settle for substandard rentals, couch-surf, or move into hostels. Some abandoned the city altogether. stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/1276…

Hamilton not just ahead of Tauranga Chamfy.... Great yarn on the front of Dom Post from Ethan Te Ora. Vic Uni hemorrhaging students thanks to high rents in Wellington (ironically 📈 rents partially driven by nimby advocacy from some of their academics!) i.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/1276…

Aaron Gilmore ran a small-scale hotel with the same kind of riotous entitlement that saw him booted from Parliament. Lies, post-dated letters, trespass orders, schoolyard insults, and—when those tactics failed—forced entry. I investigated for Stuff stuff.co.nz/national/polit…