Oscar Sims @oscarcsims Twitter profile

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Oscar Sims

@oscarcsims

5 months

You’re not a true rain enjoyer until you’ve experienced the 4pm rain in southeast asia. Is there a name for this phenomenon?

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5 months

About to lose the Malaysian followers I recently gained by being very mean about urban planning

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@gbrl_dick I do not have the secret to happiness but I do know ‘longform personal essay in The Cut’ is not part of the recipe

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5 months

@azarimy Here is a more cyberpunk one from the same area

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5 months

More cyberpunk Kuala Lumpur

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5 months

KL Monorail up there with some of the world’s great transit lines based on the quality of views alone. I think this is insufficiently factored into business cases (looking at you, ALR)

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5 months

No longer the world’s tallest, but still two of the world’s most iconic buildings thanks to outstanding architecture - we need to go back to the heyday of beautiful skyscrapers

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6 months

a really funny phenomenon is that landlords and investors will just straight up write what their risks are in disclosure statements and the financial press and a certain segment of the left will still go "no, they are wrong, the key to housing affordability is _______"

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2 years

An honour to have been selected last night as @nzlabour 's candidate for Auckland Central. We're going to run a relentlessly local campaign focussed on issues like the cost of living, housing, and public transport. I love this place, and I want to take my advocacy to Parliament.

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@oscarcsims

5 months

In the woke Republic of Singapore, where they have multilingual signage and cycle lanes inside shopping malls

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4 months

@nikicaga “Starmer paid £60 for extra baggage and priority boarding. Does he think he’s better than us?”

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@oscarcsims

2 months

Toulouse - a city slightly smaller than Auckland that most of my followers couldn’t locate on a map - blows NZ infrastructure out of the water. Imagine how powerful we could be.

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@oscarcsims

11 months

Creating a new “government department for making government smaller” is a fantastic bit

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5 months

@StuartBDonovan Yes this type of convectional rain is very common in humid tropical climates - was wondering if there was a local Malay name for it. It’s so regular you could set your watch by it!

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@oscarcsims

10 months

"That is as good as exclusion. It misses the point of community sport. Everyone should have access to social environments sports can bring." Everyone should have the right to be included in community sport in NZ!

Erin Reed

@ErinInTheMorn

10 months

Sad news out of New Zealand. The new government, which is more conservative than previous governments, announced that it will make a priority to ban transgender people from all publicly funded women's sports. A reminder that anti-trans panic is global.

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5 months

Good way to advertise cycling

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@oscarcsims

1 year

This tax policy is brought to you by Nord VPN. Use code FISCALHOLE or the link in the description to get 15% off your first three months.

Stuff.co.nz Politics

@NZStuffPolitics

1 year

It is the jewel in the crown of National's election promises for tax relief - but online experts say it will be very easy for gamblers - and operators - to get around geoblocking.

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Oscar Sims

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1 year

Just got off the phone with @_chloeswarbrick and gave my congratulations. She did the hard yards in this campaign and I’m excited to work with her on the future of Auckland Central!

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8 months

Coalition For More Homes

@morehomesnz

8 months

This is a huge deal. It should allow 'perimeter block' style housing that we've been pushing for since 2021. Read our original write-up from back during the MDRS process:

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5 months

This had the opposite effect - selamat datang new Twitterjaya followers. What are good things to do and see in KL and George Town?

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@oscarcsims

5 months

About to lose the Malaysian followers I recently gained by being very mean about urban planning

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1 year

Wikipedia editors are currently writing draft articles for candidates ahead of the election. I reckon they've nailed mine:

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7 months

Property manager sent me a notice of a rent increase, fired a notice to end the tenancy straight back. Felt good. (I am moving overseas next month)

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5 months

Goodbye KL, it’s Penang time! Just wanted to shout out all the new friends I made here for showing me around and giving me lots of interesting local housing and transport history.

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@oscarcsims

8 months

my reaction when new mixed-use apartment buildings are completed in auckland

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@oscarcsims

5 months

@slainthayer So what is the reason for the development pattern like this? I noticed on the way into town from KLIA that there seems to be pretty extreme variation in land use - dense townhouse developments and occasional high-rise residential in the middle of palm plantations

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5 months

@islandnear Imagining the alternative timeline where I stayed in Singapore long enough for my Singlish accent to persist into adulthood

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@oscarcsims

5 months

Did a throwaway tweet about a bad example of Malaysian urban planning on Thursday and ended up getting a full lowdown from some (extremely friendly) local urbanists over dinner last night. Despite janky management this is still the greatest website on the internet

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5 months

@acbnrff Truuu

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@oscarcsims

1 year

We can’t let our public housing programme slip. @nzlabour is the party of warm, dry, affordable housing.

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2 years

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@oscarcsims

1 year

Reminded of @HendoWest 's speech during the council's debate on the MDRS. This is what is at stake:

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Oscar Sims

@oscarcsims

1 year

Vehicle noise is by far the worst part of living in the city centre. I live next to a nightclub but the thing that wakes me up is motorbikes and cars with external speakers. Need law reform to make enforcement much easier

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Oscar Sims

@oscarcsims

11 months

In case of emergency, break glass, remove hammer labelled “IMMIGRATION”

Newshub Politics

@NewshubPolitics

11 months

'Labour opened the floodgates': Luxon says NZ's immigration system not sustainable

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@oscarcsims

11 months

I think if I was wrong about anything it’s that the street isn’t /that/ much wider - guess we need to go further

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@NzFubar

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@oscarcsims Get real.. go take a picture!

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@oscarcsims

8 months

Horrific news - he was an all-around super nice guy and was full of encouragement and advice on the campaign trail last year

1News

@1NewsNZ

8 months

#BREAKING : Green MP Efeso Collins, 49, has died after collapsing at a charity event this morning.

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@oscarcsims

1 year

One of the leading candidates in the Thai general election today was raised in NZ and got interested in politics by... listening to Jim Bolger's speeches on Parliament TV?

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Oscar Sims

@oscarcsims

6 months

@conradh23 @StuartBDonovan yes, which is exactly my point - we can guide housing affordability policy by which things investors say would cause drawdowns in their investments (freeing up urban land supply, reducing construction costs, tenant protections)

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@oscarcsims

7 months

Wellington people, why is there nowhere to buy your local public transport card at the airport

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Oscar Sims

@oscarcsims

11 months

When elected officials refer to my neighbourhood as the ‘CBD’ instead of the City Centre:

Christopher Bishop

@cjsbishop

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@benmackey Offensive and wrong

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Oscar Sims

@oscarcsims

2 years

look I realize that the public transport system is under strain right now but this is just ridiculous

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@oscarcsims

5 months

@ruSialGiMamp0s 1000% agreed

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Oscar Sims

@oscarcsims

1 year

The new housing development Te Mātāwai was opened this morning on Greys Ave. Fantastic development. Proud to be standing for a party building lots of new public housing – another 276 new homes in our community. 🏗️

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@oscarcsims

8 months

Crowds onto the street at the opening of Ockham’s Greenhouse development on Williamson Ave. Suggests there might be quite a lot of demand for new apartment buildings

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Oscar Sims

@oscarcsims

5 months

@ErnestOnPT To be fair I think the two extreme preferences of 'grounded single family home' and 'walkable mixed use urban neighbourhood' exist basically everywhere. But only one of them should be prioritised by policymakers

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Oscar Sims

@oscarcsims

2 years

The former Mayor of Auckland City calling for an inquiry into our infrastructure deficit:

RNZ

@radionz

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Former Auckland mayor Christine Fletcher is calling for a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the underlying infrastructure issues revealed by the floods.

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9 months

I’ll be speaking at @YIMBYtown 2024 in Austin, TX alongside @ajdlinux and @McReynoldsJoe in a couple of weeks on YIMBYism in the Asia-Pacific region. Come get the inside scoop on current and future New Zealand housing politics and policy!

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Oscar Sims

@oscarcsims

2 years

pink sky, pink path, pink census

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Oscar Sims

@oscarcsims

1 year

We are so back @morehomesnz

Finn Blackwell

@FinnBlackwell

1 year

Auckland Council adopts plan to intensify housing in existing suburbs

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Oscar Sims

@oscarcsims

1 year

Hi Twitter - I’m formally launching my campaign this weekend. If you’d like to come along, flick me a DM.

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@oscarcsims

1 year

Great to welcome the Prime Minister into Auckland Central this afternoon for the launch of our campaign slogan!

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5 months

@ajdlinux Haha yeah I should have known that complaining about poor urban policy is a beloved pastime everywhere

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@oscarcsims

8 months

I ❤️ the Accident Compensation Corporation

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Oscar Sims

@oscarcsims

2 years

New year, new NIMBYs. Me for @morehomesnz in the Herald today:

'Not in my back yard': Auckland residents fight housing intensification plans

Neighbours want to stop 467 new houses in Orewa and 81 in Beach Haven.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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@oscarcsims

8 months

Just got in the immigration queue at JFK and New Zealand looks like the perfect picture of efficiency and state capacity

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@oscarcsims

8 months

Unlike the right wingers, I have been negatively polarised against Taylor Swift for the right reasons (just spent over an hour in the security line at Auckland Airport)

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2 years

A bedroom commuter visits Beach Haven @morehomesnz

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1 year

Hoardings going up. Shout out to my team for helping with the most annoying part of any election campaign

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4 months

What I have learned while spending the last six weeks in 11 cities living out of hotels, hostels, and friends' couches is that small spaces are perfectly pleasant, especially if they are your own, and homelessness is a public policy choice

Sharon Murdoch

@domesticanimal

4 months

Farewell the Shoebox Apartment, Hello the Commodious Apartment. My #cartoon today #NZpol #Housing

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6 months

Pretty fun learning how to use my phone camera better

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Oscar Sims

@oscarcsims

8 months

Luxon scoffs at the hypothetical - but the difference between a govt bureaucracy and say, running the customer support function of an airline is that there are 10,000 of these edge cases and you have to deal with all of them instead of handing people off to a chatbot

Nick

@StrayDogNZ

8 months

Here's Luxon saying he believes that someone on the JobSeeker benefit, who has cancer, should still be looking to work 10 hours a week:

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Oscar Sims

@oscarcsims

3 months

Feel like it’s hard to go wrong with a policy of “just copy the Danes”. The architecture and the Copenhagen Metro are particularly outstanding

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Oscar Sims

@oscarcsims

1 year

Why does the top of this car parking building have one of the best views of Midtown

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Oscar Sims

@oscarcsims

3 months

The linked piece hits all the worst NZ talking points about rail: - Conflating the economics of intra- and inter-urban rail - Taking per-km costs as fixed and unfixable - Comparison to the "magnificent" (lol) London Underground

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3 months

While we’re all looking for a long term agreed infrastructure pipeline, leaving our “ideological” views on specific transport modes at the door, sadly the most intensely held ideological opposition to any transport mode is the obsessive opposition to rail.

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@oscarcsims

11 months

Cappuccinos with @ScootFoundation

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@oscarcsims

3 months

📍 Penang, Malaysia

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@nzsd

3 months

we should set up New Zealandtown ethnic neighbourhoods in major international immigrant destination cities, like New York and London, with pie shops and flat white cafes and dairies and other businesses providing things just like they are in the old country (New Zealand)

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1 year

This is good news but I think the framing of this underscores an important but very basic political goal I want to achieve: reminding people that tens of thousands of us actually live in the City Centre (which is no longer the ‘CBD’!)

Foot traffic bounces back, as Auckland's Queen Street slowly comes back to life

The Auckland CBD is coming back to life after years of pandemic slow down and disruption caused by construction works.

www.rnz.co.nz

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@oscarcsims

2 months

Auckland is more diverse, more culturally important, more economically important, and way more people want to live in Auckland than Toulouse. Yet we engage every day in self-sabotage

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@oscarcsims

4 months

Taking a daytrip with @islandnear to Tartu, we splashed out an extra 2€ for the fanciest bus seat I have ever had

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@oscarcsims

8 months

It’s so on

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1 year

I think tall buildings are neat.

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5 months

Cya later Singapore! S-tier infrastructure and food, could definitely see myself living here for a bit

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@oscarcsims

11 months

Happy birthday @ScootFoundation . Beers.

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@oscarcsims

1 year

beers??

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@oscarcsims

2 years

tweeting "we're so back" over and over until the newspaper columnists get the message

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@oscarcsims

1 year

African market day at Freyberg Square. Good public spaces are still extremely underrated

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@oscarcsims

11 months

WX1. Westgate is wild - massively car-dependent shopping mall surrounded by new terraced housing and duplexes. Contrast between new and old visions of Auckland.

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@oscarcsims

5 months

Singapore proves that very beautiful public housing developments are possible

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@oscarcsims

1 year

Still work to do to make the City Centre the best it can be, but live music and markets in one of our fantastic public spaces helps a lot!

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@oscarcsims

8 months

Am quoted in this piece today: "Sims said IHP members should be impartial arbiters operating at arm's-length from the issues at hand, free from actual and perceived conflicts." We hold our MPs to higher standards - IHP members should be the same!

Joel MacManus

@JoelMacManus

8 months

Members of Wellington's IHP failed to declare more than $7 million worth of property in the capital city - including some in areas where the panel recommended expanding character protections. Another cracking investigation from @dileepa_fonseka and co.

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@oscarcsims

11 months

An excellent legislative history of housing policy in New Zealand. Mandatory reading for journalists, politicians, and activists involved in housing policy

Works in Progress

@WorksInProgMag

11 months

And finally: New Zealand has recently passed some upzonings which have allowed many new homes to be built, and amazed the world, but which are poorly understood. Here is the full story, from @_westerlywinds and @markothoughts

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@oscarcsims

1 year

The Fan Festival in the City Centre is open and there’s a huge buzz. Great to see after a tough week!

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1 year

Fairly full house at Eden Park!!! USA v Vietnam #FIFAWWC

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Oscar Sims

@oscarcsims

2 years

Congratulations to my friend Helen White, the next Labour MP for Mt Albert. Great selection with two strong candidates. We will fight hard to re-elect a Labour government in October.

Jenna Lynch

@JennaLynchNZ

2 years

Labour has selected Helen White to contest Mt Albert

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@oscarcsims

2 years

shining like a strip cut from a sheet metal plate

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@oscarcsims

5 months

OK yeah, Penang. Go visit.

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Oscar Sims

@oscarcsims

8 months

Austin… Auckland… Australia… I’m bullish on ‘Au-‘ places

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@DocumentingATX

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Austin has changed so much in 10 years. 2014 to 2023 This is incredible.

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@oscarcsims

7 months

National integrated ticketing cannot come fast enough

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@oscarcsims

7 months

Wellington people, why is there nowhere to buy your local public transport card at the airport

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1 year

In conclusion, the inner suburbs are a land of contrasts

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Oscar Sims

@oscarcsims

7 months

this is why we ought to be skeptical about arguments around "30 years of capacity" without qualification

Malcolm McCracken

@urbanistfromwhk

7 months

ICYMI: "Auckland has enabled enough capacity to cater for projected housing growth over the next 30 years, However, if the goal is to improve affordability, we need to do more than meet these projections... this means creating more abundant capacity"

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@oscarcsims

1 year

One silver lining of losing an election: I have 7 months of unread issues of 'Money Stuff' to read this long weekend

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@oscarcsims

4 months

Finland time! 🇫🇮 I don’t regret coming to Hong Kong but I would not recommend it as a tourism destination. Go elsewhere in Asia.

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Oscar Sims

@oscarcsims

8 months

another pro-housing w. welcome to the 21st century wellington

Joel MacManus

@JoelMacManus

8 months

Wellington City Council has voted to reject the IHP recommendations on character areas. The character precincts will shrink from 306 hectares to 85 hectares.

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4 months

Most NZers per square metre at @islandnear ’s house that there have ever been in Estonia

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@oscarcsims

1 year

Lovely evening in the capital but I’m ready to give my verdict: you can’t beat Auckland on a good day

scoOoOot!

@ScootFoundation

1 year

Love this city

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Oscar Sims

@oscarcsims

8 months

defer tax hikes (but not stop them), a bunch of unfunded road projects that won't actually ease congestion, and cuts to decarbonization projects. brilliant, clearsighted leadership for the future 👍

Thomas Coughlan

@coughlthom

8 months

Draft GPS out - 12c fuel tax hike canned for this term, 22c hike planned next term - 15 RoNS planned (no costing) - New pothole fund - PT Infra cut by about $1b - PT Services cut by about $500m - Walking and cycling cut by about $490m

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1 year

Better protection of the Gulf has been a long-standing political ask in Auckland Central since the term of the last government. Labour is actually delivering.

Labour announces Hauraki protection plan covering 18 percent of Gulf

Watch: Chris Hipkins has spoken to media about plans for 19 new marine protection areas for the Hauraki Gulf under a Bill that would not pass before the election.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Oscar Sims

@oscarcsims

9 months

This feels significant. I don’t think we would have seen this level of consensus outrage 5 years ago

BusinessDesk_NZ

@businessdesk_nz

9 months

During a time of major political division, there seems to be one thing parties of both the left and right agree on: a new Wellington housing report has major flaws. @dileepa_fonseka and @OliverLewis report.

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1 year

Vibe check ✅

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1 year

It’s a beautiful afternoon in the City Centre!

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Oscar Sims

@oscarcsims

11 months

Possibly controversial around here but #KeepIt3

Adam Currie

@Adam_Currie_NZ

11 months

Incoming government has agreed to get a bill to expand Parliament's term to 4 years at least to First Reading by march 2025

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Oscar Sims

@oscarcsims

8 months

Morning NZ - am livetweeting housing stuff from Texas today:

Coalition For More Homes

@morehomesnz

8 months

We’re live from #yimbytown in Austin, Texas this week. Coalition volunteer @oscarcsims is speaking and will be bringing you the highlights from the sessions in this thread ⬇️

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@oscarcsims

5 months

Even when travelling I cannot resist looking at planning maps. NZ councils should invest in some of these big touchscreens instead of relying on massive printouts

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