PHOTO: ROSS GIBLIN/STUFF Porirua Mayor Anita Baker outside the new state housing development in Castor Cr, Porirua
A year on from the announcement of a billion-dollar-plus Porirua housing project, hoped-for new homes will not arrive this year.
It comes as some locals worry the project is the start of a middle-class wave washing the poor out of their own neighbourhoods in the city’s east.
When the $1.5 billion project, now dubbed The Porirua Development, was announced last November, the government said the first renewed state home would be ready in 2019, while the first Kiwibuild home would be ready in 2020.
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