Locked out – fixing our housing crisis

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A generation of kiwis are being locked out of the kiwi dream by out of control house prices and rising rents. We are all being effected, so how can we solve Auckland’s Housing Crisis?

Attend this meeting to find out how you will be affected in the future and what you can do to have your say. Plus hear from a diverse panel of community leaders working to break down the barriers to affordable housing:

– Shamubeel Eaqub – Economist & author of ‘Generation Rent’.
– Alex Johnston – Auckland Council’s Youth Advisory Panel
– Yvette Taylor – Living Wage Aotearoa
– Phil Twyford – Labour’s Housing spokesperson
with comedian Guy Williams as MC.
This is your opportunity to show that you are concerned about Auckland’s very real housing crisis and that we need leadership now

10 COMMENTS

  1. Until the social evil of buying to rent for Capital Gain is eliminated it’s all just talk talk talk. There simply isn’t the political will anywhere to do this simple action. The Me! Me! Me! Selfish society has us in its vice like grip and no one has the courage to break that vice.

  2. This could have been a perfect opportunity for reasoned and balanced debate, but due to the organisers only inviting left-biased, peripheral speakers who will do nothing but complain about the gummint, this will no doubt end up being nothing more than a bitching session for hard left happy-clappers and pro welfare advocates.

    Shame. A lost opportunity.

    • Mike@nz – considering that National resists any meaningful changes that will dampen speculation-driven demand, I fail to see what practical suggestions the Right has to offer.

      And when you refer to “pro welfare advocates” (a red herring if I ever saw one), you’ve reaffirmed my belief that the Right have nothing constructive to offer except more market-driven “solutions”. And haven’t those “solutions” been a stirling success?

      • Convincing (or forcing) councils to release more land for development is hardly “nothing constructive to offer”.

        Auckland is having growing pains at the moment, it is obviously a desirable place to live. The market says so, there is a situation where demand exceeds supply. Auckland also has terribly restrictive and demanding zoning and development laws, brought about by a desire for the Auckland City Council to find someone else to pay for horizontal infrastructure and street development. In this case a market driven problem demands a market driven solution.

        If Aucklanders built and built until there were more houses available than there were people who wanted them, I wonder what would happen?

        • Councils will not fund the infrastructure because they would have to raise rates. That would be political suicide.

          Same thing with zoning and development laws. The Nimbys have a valid concern. They do stand to lose money if things change.

          Housing could only be considered a “market” problem if the “market” could control the arbitrary factors that affect demand. The Central government controls those.

          The housing crisis is a political decision, and addressing demand through centeral government is the only practical way of solving it.

  3. Jack Ramaka 5
    15 May 2016 at 12:47 pm

    The Auckland Housing Market is effectively a Ponzi Scheme driven by offshore money being fed into the marketplace via an Investment Category Immigration Scheme, whereby offshore citizens can gain residency by floating $$$’s into the Auckland Housing Market.

    There are virtually guaranteed capital gains as there is a limited supply of housing stock and ever increasing demand from offshore investors for houses.

    Also NZ is seen as a safe haven for parking $$$’s.

    http://thestandard.org.nz/tv3-the-hui-special-report-on-poverty/#comments

    • A “limited supply of housing stock and [an] ever increasing demand” you say?

      Quite right. See my comment above

      • Keith 5.2
        15 May 2016 at 3:54 pm

        Buy an “investment house” for capital gain purposes, claim a tax rebate on a percentage of the interest paid, claim on “depreciation” or loss and the coup d’etat, score the housing supplement from your tenant, he gets an accommodation supplement to pay your rent. At least 3 ways of paying less tax whilst bludging off the taxpayer, distorting the housing market extremely with all the others in the game and denying those who want to buy a house to live in the ability to do so, much less an affordable one. National not only love it, they encourage it!

        the standard.org.nz

        Who is a beneficiary again and are they going to crack down on these parasites?

        • Micky dosnt understand that there is no money for his imaginary Auckland suburbs.

          He reminds me of Hittler in his final days when he would manoeuvre his imaginary armies around.

          • Sammy, I beg to differ.

            Anyone who thinks its a good idea to spend $1m on an average weatherboard villa in an average suburb would certainly have the desire and wherewithal to buy a 400sqm section ($400k) and build a new house ($450k) in a new subdivision. Oh yes!

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