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Rottenomics

Rottenomics

The Story of New Zealand's Leaky Buildings Disaster

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The Story of New Zealand’s Leaky Buildings Disaster

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ISBN: 9781869539986
Publisher/Imprint: David Bateman Ltd
Published: 4 Oct 19
Format: Paperback / softback
Dimensions: 160 x 240 mm
Pages: 192

Description

For over a quarter century our building industry, economy and Government have failed to provide this basic guarantee: new buildings will not rot.

For over a quarter century our building industry, economy and Government have failed to provide this basic guarantee: new buildings will not rot. Leaky buildings are the result of an unfortunate confluence of industrial, legislative, historical and cultural factors. Collectively, these elements stubbornly continue to defy a full and final resolution.

Featuring personal stories of homeowners faced with insurmountable repair costs of hundreds of thousands to their `dream home’, often leading to sickness, depression and financial loss. And revealed for the first time, a withheld government report from which the author extrapolates the total cost of leaky dwellings at over $47 billion.

Rottenomics is an engaging expose into a national crisis that refuses to go away.

Author

PETER DYER is a freelance journalist based in Wellington who has written for the Winters Express, ConsortiumNews.com, the Manawatu Standard and North & South.

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