Talk:State housing in New Zealand

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Stub with no references - one of the more important NZ topics. Richard001 01:51, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Last edited at 01:51, 13 June 2007 (UTC). Substituted at 06:56, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Requested move 15 January 2024

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved to State housing in New Zealand. (closed by non-admin page mover) – Hilst [talk] 13:53, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

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State housing → State housing (New Zealand) – "State housing" is a generic phrase, not one specific to New Zealand, and should therefore redirect to the corresponding broad-concept article at public housing. Sour789 recently tried to do this move, but it was reverted by Gadfium because other countries use the term "public housing". This is true in the sense that "public housing" is the more common name in the United States (or "social housing", "government housing", etc. in other countries), but not in the sense that "state housing" is a uniquely New Zealand phrase; a quick web search shows that it's also used by official bodies in Norway[1] and several US states[2][3], for instance. They're just plain English descriptions of the same concept. – Joe (talk) 12:26, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

• Agree. It is a generic phrase. Wainuiomartian (talk) 17:43, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
• Support quite a generic phrase, general searching for it gives multiple non-New Zealand entries. DankJae 01:10, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

  also support State housing in New Zealand alternative DankJae 17:35, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

• Support per nom. When I first came across this page a few months ago I thought that it was the general concept, not the one specific to New Zealand. —Panamitsu (talk) 03:07, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
• Support move to State housing in New Zealand per WP:NATDIS. JohnCWiesenthal (talk) 16:58, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
• Support move to State housing in New Zealand. Nurg (talk) 10:36, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
• Rename to State housing in New Zealand and redirect State housing to Public housing. Generic term. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:21, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

• Support, deepest apologies for not posting on the talk page for consensus before changing the name. But support for the same reasons as stated by the others above and as per my edit summary. Sour789 (talk) 15:37, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

• Support per above. --Yorkporter (talk) 21:41, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

Support suggestion from User:Necrothesp. Generic terms, with synonyms. Council housing, social housing, affordable housing. I guess there’s a bit of ENGVAR at play, but the varying terms are meaningful in many different countries. SmokeyJoe (talk) 13:29, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

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