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Kōrero: Housing

Wheel estate

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Wheel estate

In the early 2000s house prices rose to such an extent that they became unaffordable for many first-time buyers. This 2007 cartoon satirises the situation as a wheel or vicious circle in which first-time home buyers become luckless victims of a housing market that favours property speculation.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: DCDL-0004711

by Mike Moreu

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Ben Schrader, Housing – 21st-century challenges, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/cartoon/38668/wheel-estate (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Ben Schrader, i tāngia i te 3 December 2012.