NZers need to understand National doesn’t care about homelessness or housing affordability

1. It’s not just National. Just about everyone is LYING by saying it is purely a supply problem. They are doing exactly nothing to address the demand – largely driven by speculators and foreign investment – both of which can be trivially ended with legislation (a total ban on foreign buyers combined with a rise of interest rates and/or a capital gains tax would do the trick imo). Even the supply can be addressed to some extent by forcing the owners of the 33,000 “ghost houses” to either rent or sell their properties to people that actually want to live in them.
   http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11654495
   The fact that none of this happening means Bomber is exactly right to think that the government, the banks, or the owners are going to do anything about the housing crisis is a a pure pipe dream.

   • Correct Nitrium greed besets greed so as soon as these speculators taste greed they are corrupted and gone to key’s lot.

     It is just a rort to get folks buying into speculation simple as that.

   • Growth for growth’s sake is the first principle this government sticks to. And if there is little quality growth in the economy (i.e. more productivity through smarter, more sophisticated products and services being produced in a smart manner), then the next best thing is letting immigration and foreign investment continue, no matter what.

     So we have developers, speculators, investors all rubbing their hands, and new migrants come every day, increasing Auckland’s population, to some degree the rest of New Zealand (on top of natural growth).

     More consumers, more willing workers, more business investors, and some growth is created due to that, but GDP per capital only increased by half of a percent over last year or so.

     For the individual it means NO improvement, stagnation, and also more pressures on housing and incomes (wages).

     If only the average citizen would finally realise this and vote accordingly, but then even Labour is careful not to sound and appear “xenophobic”, i.e. too intent on capping immigration.

     And with needs for more infrastructure, housing, health services, education, social services and so on, we will all have to pay more in the future anyway, no gains at all, I reckon.

2. Milnes article outraged me. Don’t blame anyone, especially the bunch of crooks in this government. Fuck off Jonathan Milne, National are very responsible for this disaster and deserved to punished for the misery they have and are creating. Cut the propaganda, who wrote this shit, David Farrar?

   But lets look at Nationals failure list on housing, or successes if you are a National insider;

   Special Housing Areas. Cemeteries, non governmental land, probably the odd roundabout and cliff faces, what a poor joke. Few houses built with developers now pulling out of the meager few they committed to because Nationals approved Auckland Unitary Plan has done away with the need for SHA’s. To rub salt into the wound Nick Smith now claims this monumental failure always had a temporary shelf life. What fucking ever!

   Brightline test. God knows who gave it that meaningless name but 2 years was never ever going to be long enough and Key knew it. It did nothing.

   Minimum 20% deposit before a loan is approved. All it did and all it was probably meant to do was it took the “muppets” out of the market, that is first home buyers as one investor referred to people unfortunate enough to be born at a time that later in life aligned itself with the Key government being elected.

   IRD numbers for foreign buyers. The trouble with Nationals version of that is it didn’t include foreign buyers, you know the ones, students, work visa holders, property transfers, basically 40% of all buyers that is.

   None of this is an accident nor is it poor planning, it was a cruel charade to keep Nationals pollsters calm. But the victims of this government hidden policies and it’s voter base are piling up with each day that passes. And National have proven beyond a doubt they’re beholden only to big money, not New Zealanders!

   • we need riots

3. WE NEED TO SEIZE HALF TVNZ & RNZ TO TELL THE REAL TRUTH NOW AS THE MADIA IS HIDING THE TRUTH FROM THE PUBLIC MARTYN.

   COME ON PHIL TWYFORD GET LABOUR/GREENS/NZ FIRST TO SEIZE HALF OUR PUBLIC OWNERSHIP AS 50% OF THE VOTERS TO CONTROL OUR MEDIA AGAIN PLEASE.

   MARTYN IS RIGHT THE NZ PUBLIC ARE NOT HEARING THIS ISSUE.

4. Not only that.. I am a Boomer, and i have always voted against neo-liberal greed, except for that one time when i foolishly voted for Lange instead of Muldoon whom I detested. But you are now pissing me off, Martyn. Look at your own generation, and the younger ones. THEY are the ones also voting for National. They vote National just as much as any older generations. They vote National a bloody sight more than my old boomer friends do. So why not shut up about generational treachery?

5. I am a baby boomer and I would like to see housing price drop to 25% of income for those on low incomes.

   It is only by city council and central government working to redevelop city fringe areas into well designed apartments, with secure tenancy, mixed quality (to avoid ghettoisation) and income related rents. Secure jobs at the living wage would also help especially if families can make housing and employment decision without having to commit to travelling hours each day

   That’s the best solution to the problem my children have of avoidable housing. The other is for me to die young so that my modest property could supply the deposit on a home for each of them.

6. Maybe National is marking time waiting for the corporation TPP takeover of NZ and let US corporations OVERTLY run the country:
   https://www.rt.com/usa/357333-mcconnell-tpp-senate-vote/
   Same McConnell whose family was found to be involved with drugs:
   http://thefreethoughtproject.com/90-pounds-cocaine-cargo-ship-owned-anti-drug-senators-family/

7. News from our Trans Tasman neighbour, signs of times to come, well we are partly already there:

   https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/why-100-years-without-slum-housing-in-australia-is-coming-to-an-end-014857073.html

8. National, and most particularly its leader, are following the dictates of the bankster NWO. The 21 Goals of the Bilderberg (probably amended at this date as needed) say it all: http://educate-yourself.org/cn/johncolemangoalsofIlluminati.shtml
   Our stock market is rigged: http://nypost.com/2015/03/25/us-stock-market-is-just-way-too-riggin-easy/
   and the housing market (those in the West accessible to the NWO) just as dodgy: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-27/%E2%80%9Ci%E2%80%99ve-never-seen-anything-housing-markets-hamptons-aspen-and-miami-are-all-crashing
   Our Health/Educational/Sciences systems are all rigged.
   http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/cancer-forbidden-cures/
   http://www.spingola.com/new_world_order5.htm
   http://www.darkgovernment.com/news/tr-3b/
   There is to much info on the web to continue with our naivety and point the finger. Knowledge is power but we choose to “leave it to the politicians”. Until we stand up united as one and say no more, we will remain slaves and serfs. Hamsters on the wheel.
   Interesting, Martyn, that you chose the words “DRACONIAN welfare reforms” http://galacticconnection.com/veterans-today-subjects-and-serfs-of-the-lesser-gods-part-i/?mc_cid=5be9468d28&mc_eid=992f5a3916
   And if anyone thinks our misery is just a passing phase remember the Georgia Guidestone which state, inter alia, world population to be kept under 500,000,000. Hmm. I wonder if jonkey has to report to his Bilderberg superiors with the achieved mortality rate? Probably.
   Now that we know that one party is as bad as the other, isn’t it time we agreed to disagree but pull together? If we don’t, those that survive will die of boredom with the same old same old same old …..

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