'Bar owners offer to hold proceedings for mediation (Scoop.co.nz) The Oxford Terrace bar owners in dispute with the Christchurch City Council over the process used to set the outdoor-dining rental rates, have made an offer to hold legal proceedings if Councillors will reconsider the bar owners call to go to mediation.
'Home-rental market in a jam, study says (The Philadelphia Inquirer) More Rental housing is being demolished than is being built each year, putting the squeeze on millions of American families for whom renting is the only option. That's one conclusion of a study released earlier this month by the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University.