Central Otago is critically short of affordable housing
- The median house price in Cromwell is $825,000, and in Wanaka, $1,752,750 (Crux.org.nz 22/01/2022)
- CIAL will object to new subdivisions within their noise exclusion zone
- Airport workers’ commuting distances would be more than 50km
Most airport jobs are low-paid (<$30 per hour)
- The graph at left shows the number of jobs (vertical axis) against pay rate ($$/hr) for jobs advertised over a 2 year period on the website seek.co.nz, using the search ‘roles Christchurch Airport’
- On these wages, workers cannot afford a $600 per week house rental
What sorts of jobs?
Titles of jobs advertised on the website are shown below. Colour shows the salary band as on the previous graph. Jobs in the centre are the lowest paid – the red and yellow/green colours show job titles paying $10 – $30 /hr. The few jobs at > $60 / hr are around the edge in purple.
Sustainable Tarras 