This is a commentary  on the article "Breather for state housing tenants" published online six days after a massive earthquake struck the area taking numerous lives and destructing countless properties including those historical and treasured.

    With a population of just over 350,000 people, Christchurch is one of the more densely populated cities in New Zealand; 18,000 are living in state owned housing under Housing New Zealand. A quarter of these households have had their rent suspended due to a structural damages, some deemed dangerous and a handful uninhabitable and awaiting destruction. The government has given itself three weeks to access the damage, place a cash value on how much it will take to rebuild Christchurch. Like many housing policies around the world, New Zealand's housing policy is more about helping those who are having difficulty keeping up with certain standard of living as to governments looking to erase the slums that in no way are attractive to the eye. Countries like these face more problematic situations in disaster zones because there are issues with crime attached.

     The housing minister Heatley highlights the fact that those who are currently living in state houses are financially vulnerable and potentially at risk of falling deeper into financial difficulty. A portion of tenants who are in houses that are partially damaged are given the opportunity to be relocated to alternative sites or pay half the rent until services return. The three week relief period is hardly enough time to overcome the destruction of the city let alone the problems and damages aftershocks have caused. In numerous problem housing cases, it is not the property itself that is the source of the problem but more about the surrounding and the social status of those who are living in it.

     The article only addresses what Housing New Zealand is doing in response to the already vulnerable population but does not touch upon the thousands that have been affected by the earthquake but do not fall under the category- tenants in state owned houses. The people who are living in the unscathed properties could possibly be living in amongst broken down communities with essential nearby amenities destroyed at the same time, those who have no choice but to relocate could be offered houses that are either far away from the city center or in different towns altogether.   

     It is not unlikely to see an incredibly high number of people relocating to other cities or even leaving the country. Almost 5000 Christchurch  students have left the city opting to continue their education elsewhere. Not only does this affect the economic structure, it also means that centers for education could possibly become ghost towns. But those who are looking to relocate are almost rejected by Auckland because even though it is the biggest city in New Zealand, the housing issue there is already problematic enough so instead of residents moving to more developed areas, they could end up in the rural countryside. In essence, Housing New Zealand will not be able to fully address the housing issue now if it were to concentrate on those who are tenants. It needs to look at those who simply do not have the funds to repair and restore their private homes. There is also a possibility that external sources of funds will soon become limited due to natural disasters that have hit Japan. 

FUCK ARCHITECTURE

-you made me a binge eater / snacker

-you make me exhausted

-you make me think too much

RESPONSE

-diet

APPROACH

-Unknown

GOAL

-10 pounds before MARCH 19th 2011

RESULT

-Unknown

CONSEQUENCE

-Starvation

The feeling that one gets when talking to the person that they love with all of their heart and that person tells them that they are perfect

*I get butterflies whenever I see a box of Rice Krispies (not intended for all the understand) 

Butterfag:

a man usually above 18 that likes butterflies

Butterfetus

A hot pregnant woman

Butterfuck

A really girthy woman whom you enjoy screwing. 

to fuck somebody ugly in the ass with a stick of butter

Butterhogs

slang for female breasts. Not to be confused with milkwagons 

See, I've had an amazing holiday.

I went to Seattle, Portland, New York... I went to probably a million places which I don't feel the need to include. 

I am home. I walked through the door. I see my bed, I see my table, I even see my pot plant still alive. I don't know exactly what it is I am feeling at this moment, it's such a puzzling feeling. The atmosphere of my own home is confusing me. Is it possible that my 'home' isn't this little studio apartment? Is it possible that I just want to open the front door and see a 32 step flight of stairs to a long corridor with little dead insects in the corners to greet me? Is that the home I want to go to?

I began a sketch book. In fact I began three. I have this nice little book I've conveniently filled up with memories, with moments I can fly through inside my mind. Another notebook has sketches of the things in front of me, it has my desperate attempt to do a one day portfolio that will determine my studio group and the quality of my tutor (pray for me my darlings) what is also has is a nice sticker on the back which reminds me that I love my food and me. The third and not the last is a clean, beautiful sketchbook, I can see traces of where my writing will be, where I will plot my crimes, my victories in. 

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I am in a coffee shop. It makes me happy. Today i received an email from my professor asking us to prepare a portfolio that will be due on wednesday morning at 9am. It is outrageous that such an important part of my Spring 2011 life in the states will be compiled in roughly 36 hours. Not only is this not acceptable, it is also not acceptable to send students a message to their school email accounts asking them to fill out an application if they want to be considered for a class. It is not acceptable when that application is due within 12 hours of when it was sent out. This is the world. 

There is a pretty girl sitting across the table from me. She has dark brown hair, pinned back in a loose pony tail. A black and white stripped scarf and a black cardigan. The lady on my right has dreads. I am currently facing three aluminium mac book pros and one macbook. They look beautiful. The looks on people's faces. 

I am hungry. 

My schedule started off at 11am. 

11am- put in kitchen and toilet sinks in my rhino model
11:30am- make section cuts
12:00pm Separate plan of each floor and make 2D and colour code it so i wont be confused
12:30pm- Determine thickness of walls in 1:1 and then convert to quarter scale- attempt in autocad so i have measurements
1:00pm- Buy food -(i don't feel like that is going to  happen because San Francisco weather is finally what people say it is like. crazy downpour
2:00pm- Clean up section1 -(not detailed)
3:00pm- Clean up section2 -(not detailed)
4:00pm- Move back to school (not if the rain doesn't stop =])
5:00pm- Cut out floor plates for my model
8:00pm- make massed for stairs and elevator( to hold up model shape)
11:00pm- shelves (also to hold up shape)
xxxx- sleep

Heres the thing, I woke up and according to my phone it is 11am.. feeling like my schedule is impossible, I took a nice shower, did my laundry,
made a nice hot cup of coffee and finally opened rhino at 11:40 my time... around the same time my sweet roommate woke up and questioned
why her watch and phone had different times and began thinking of ways someone would have changed it.. obviously not me or her sleeping
self.. and then i realized my compute and phone and watch didn't have matching times. After a whole hour of wondering while working, we
got fed up and googled the time and was pleasantly surprised it is the end of day light saving and we are 1 hour younger!  

So here is my new timetable....
I can keep to my old one except I've already had my food =D i'm so happy  

    This is a commentary  on the article "Breather for state housing tenants" published online six days after a massive earthquake struck the area taking numerous lives and destructing countless properties including those historical and treasured.

    With a population of just over 350,000 people, Christchurch is one of the more densely populated cities in New Zealand; 18,000 are living in state owned housing under Housing New Zealand. A quarter of these households have had their rent suspended due to a structural damages, some deemed dangerous and a handful uninhabitable and awaiting destruction. The government has given itself three weeks to access the damage, place a cash value on how much it will take to rebuild Christchurch. Like many housing policies around the world, New Zealand's housing policy is more about helping those who are having difficulty keeping up with certain standard of living as to governments looking to erase the slums that in no way are attractive to the eye. Countries like these face more problematic situations in disaster zones because there are issues with crime attached.

     The housing minister Heatley highlights the fact that those who are currently living in state houses are financially vulnerable and potentially at risk of falling deeper into financial difficulty. A portion of tenants who are in houses that are partially damaged are given the opportunity to be relocated to alternative sites or pay half the rent until services return. The three week relief period is hardly enough time to overcome the destruction of the city let alone the problems and damages aftershocks have caused. In numerous problem housing cases, it is not the property itself that is the source of the problem but more about the surrounding and the social status of those who are living in it.

     The article only addresses what Housing New Zealand is doing in response to the already vulnerable population but does not touch upon the thousands that have been affected by the earthquake but do not fall under the category- tenants in state owned houses. The people who are living in the unscathed properties could possibly be living in amongst broken down communities with essential nearby amenities destroyed at the same time, those who have no choice but to relocate could be offered houses that are either far away from the city center or in different towns altogether.   

     It is not unlikely to see an incredibly high number of people relocating to other cities or even leaving the country. Almost 5000 Christchurch  students have left the city opting to continue their education elsewhere. Not only does this affect the economic structure, it also means that centers for education could possibly become ghost towns. But those who are looking to relocate are almost rejected by Auckland because even though it is the biggest city in New Zealand, the housing issue there is already problematic enough so instead of residents moving to more developed areas, they could end up in the rural countryside. In essence, Housing New Zealand will not be able to fully address the housing issue now if it were to concentrate on those who are tenants. It needs to look at those who simply do not have the funds to repair and restore their private homes. There is also a possibility that external sources of funds will soon become limited due to natural disasters that have hit Japan. 

FUCK ARCHITECTURE

-you made me a binge eater / snacker

-you make me exhausted

-you make me think too much

RESPONSE

-diet

APPROACH

-Unknown

GOAL

-10 pounds before MARCH 19th 2011

RESULT

-Unknown

CONSEQUENCE

-Starvation

The feeling that one gets when talking to the person that they love with all of their heart and that person tells them that they are perfect

*I get butterflies whenever I see a box of Rice Krispies (not intended for all the understand) 

Butterfag:

a man usually above 18 that likes butterflies

Butterfetus

A hot pregnant woman

Butterfuck

A really girthy woman whom you enjoy screwing. 

to fuck somebody ugly in the ass with a stick of butter

Butterhogs

slang for female breasts. Not to be confused with milkwagons