This is a strange place
You get a bit of time to think walking these Litre Metres. Now I’m lucky to rent in a pretty nice neighbourhood, and I was wondering to myself, how much do all these houses cost, that I walk around each day? So with a lil help from handy GIS, I found a number.
$863,170,000 NZD
Thats eight hundred and sixty three million, one hundred and seventy thousand New Zealand Dollars, if you had trouble reading that many numbers. That equates to an average of $3805 NZD/m2, and these numbers exclude the price tag of the numerous luxury cars parked out front.
Take a short bus ride to the CBD down Queens street and back up Hobson street and you will see people camped out in every second store front, and people packed in like sardines on mattresses under the awning of the Auckland City Mission. This society is broken. How did this kind of disparity develop and how do we continue to allow it?
There is more than more than enough to go around, why is it so hard to share so that all can live with dignity. No self-respecting community should ignore people in need. We don’t even smile as those living rough as we pass them, because we are crippled by our collective shame in knowing this problem could easily be fixed.