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# Guest Post: Asian Parents Give Lie to the NZ Narrative
- URL: https://goodoil.news/guest-post-asian-parents-give-lie-to-the-nz-narrative/
- Published: 2021-05-17T21:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-05-17T04:36:52.000Z
- Author: Reproduced with permission
- Tags: NZ, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:14

**Lindsay Mitchell**  
[bassettbrashandhide.com](https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/guest-post-asian-parents-give-lie-to-the-nz-narrative?ref=goodoil.news)

*Lindsay Mitchell blogs [here.](http://lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com/?ref=goodoil.news)*

The non-challenged New Zealand narrative is that housing costs are a major driver of child poverty.

Rents are unaffordable, houses are damp and mouldy, and children go hungry and ill as a consequence.

Consider these newly released graphs from the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC) as part of the [Child Poverty Related Indicators Report May 2021](https://childyouthwellbeing.govt.nz/sites/default/files/2021-05/FINAL%20CPRI%20Report.pdf?ref=goodoil.news):

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/media/7b14b8_500f8dcc59774f7da3405163a5db4991~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_565,h_474,al_c,lg_1,q_90/7b14b8_500f8dcc59774f7da3405163a5db4991~mv2.webp)

Asian children live in homes with the highest ratio of housing- to- income costs.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/media/7b14b8_bd6e5eeb2c834831842685e7e38b1291~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_526,h_449,al_c,lg_1,q_90/7b14b8_bd6e5eeb2c834831842685e7e38b1291~mv2.webp)

Asian children have the lowest experience of damp, mouldy homes.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/media/7b14b8_3d72c55eb8414045976603644b01d19b~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_658,h_422,al_c,lg_1,q_90/7b14b8_3d72c55eb8414045976603644b01d19b~mv2.webp)

Asian children are the least likely to go hungry.

Looks a lot to me like Asians prioritise renting or buying at the limit of their capability; that they seek better properties and better neighbourhoods and take responsibility for any damp or mould; and that even on tight budgets they know how to feed their kids.

Asian parents give lie to the New Zealand narrative.

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