Rather than just a minimum set of rights, we need to be organising towards the right to have genuine individual and collective bargaining of conditions for tenants.
Looking forward to this event! 🙂
Kind regards,
Simon
We need an “Auckland Housing Authority” (AHA) akin to the Auckland Transport Authority, with the fundamental mission of making Auckland the most livable city in the world.
The AHA will be responsible to make sure that all residents of Auckland have affordable, quality housing, whether it is to rent or to buy.
The ATA will have powers of enforcement with respect to WOFs on rental accommodation and building standards.
The ATA will act to identify and remove systemic impediments to the construction of high-quality, affordable housing.
The ATA will oversee all ordinary rents in Auckland, to ensure that they are “living rents”, that is, rents that permit people to live without exploitation by the rentier class.
The ATA will work with central government to restore living pensions to New Zealanders, to reduce pressures on residents to speculate on property in order to secure their retirement.
The ATA will ensure there are sufficient green spaces in the city, as well as linking up residential areas with public transport to create an environmentally sustainable city plan that reduces the need for car ownership and more road building.
The ATA will provide zoning plans, regulations, and recommend changes that are “binding” on council in the same manner as transport plans are “binding” on council.
The ATA will also have powers of resumption, like AT, to acquire land to provide housing, and to summarily acquire under-utilised (“land banked”) properties.
The ATA will operate a Land Trust similar to those in other parts of the world, owning the land, but selling the houses on that land to first home buyers at significantly reduced prices.
The ATA will introduce a Land Tax to further reduce speculation and land banking. The Land Tax will be graduated upward, based the value of all residential properties under the control of any single entity, to break up large holdings and prevent monopolistic control. The proceeds of the Land Tax will be used to further the mission of the ATA.
The “free market” is incapable of limiting its own avariciousness and greed. Property has and always will concentrate upward into the hands of a few unless that tendency is positively counteracted by good democratic government.
The argument must be made to the present propertied class that the alternative to benign regulation by a central authority is a political revolution in the near-term. It is wiser to make some concessions now, than to face much more severe terms in future, at the end of what will surely be a bitter political struggle they cannot hope to win in the long term.
Editor: Please delete this accidental post. The post below is the correct version.
We need an “Auckland Housing Authority” (AHA) akin to the Auckland Transport Authority, with the fundamental mission of making Auckland the most livable city in the world.
The AHA will be responsible to make sure that all residents of Auckland have affordable, quality housing, whether it is to rent or to buy.
The AHA will have powers of enforcement with respect to WOFs on rental accommodation and building standards.
The AHA will act to identify and remove systemic impediments to the construction of high-quality, affordable housing.
The AHA will oversee all ordinary rents in Auckland, to ensure that they are “living rents”, that is, rents that permit people to live without exploitation by the rentier class.
The AHA will work with central government to restore living pensions to New Zealanders, to reduce pressures on residents to speculate on property in order to secure their retirement.
The AHA will ensure there are sufficient green spaces in the city, as well as linking up residential areas with public transport to create an environmentally sustainable city plan that reduces the need for car ownership and more road building.
The AHA will provide zoning plans, regulations, and recommend changes that are “binding” on council in the same manner as transport plans are “binding” on council.
The AHA will also have powers of resumption, like AT, to acquire land to provide housing, and to summarily acquire under-utilised (“land banked”) properties.
The AHA will operate a Land Trust similar to those in other parts of the world, owning the land, but selling the houses on that land to first home buyers at significantly reduced prices.
The AHA will introduce a Land Tax to further reduce speculation and land banking. The Land Tax will be graduated upward, based the value of all residential properties under the control of any single entity, to break up large holdings and prevent monopolistic control. The proceeds of the Land Tax will be used to further the mission of the AHA.
The “free market” is incapable of limiting its own avariciousness and greed. Property has and always will concentrate upward into the hands of a few unless that tendency is positively counteracted by good democratic government.
The argument must be made to the present propertied class that the alternative to benign regulation by a central authority is a political revolution in the near-term. It is wiser to make some concessions now, than to face much more severe terms in future, at the end of what will surely be a bitter political struggle they cannot hope to win in the long term.
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Awesome,
Rather than just a minimum set of rights, we need to be organising towards the right to have genuine individual and collective bargaining of conditions for tenants.
Looking forward to this event! 🙂
Kind regards,
Simon
We need an “Auckland Housing Authority” (AHA) akin to the Auckland Transport Authority, with the fundamental mission of making Auckland the most livable city in the world.
The AHA will be responsible to make sure that all residents of Auckland have affordable, quality housing, whether it is to rent or to buy.
The ATA will have powers of enforcement with respect to WOFs on rental accommodation and building standards.
The ATA will act to identify and remove systemic impediments to the construction of high-quality, affordable housing.
The ATA will oversee all ordinary rents in Auckland, to ensure that they are “living rents”, that is, rents that permit people to live without exploitation by the rentier class.
The ATA will work with central government to restore living pensions to New Zealanders, to reduce pressures on residents to speculate on property in order to secure their retirement.
The ATA will ensure there are sufficient green spaces in the city, as well as linking up residential areas with public transport to create an environmentally sustainable city plan that reduces the need for car ownership and more road building.
The ATA will provide zoning plans, regulations, and recommend changes that are “binding” on council in the same manner as transport plans are “binding” on council.
The ATA will also have powers of resumption, like AT, to acquire land to provide housing, and to summarily acquire under-utilised (“land banked”) properties.
The ATA will operate a Land Trust similar to those in other parts of the world, owning the land, but selling the houses on that land to first home buyers at significantly reduced prices.
The ATA will introduce a Land Tax to further reduce speculation and land banking. The Land Tax will be graduated upward, based the value of all residential properties under the control of any single entity, to break up large holdings and prevent monopolistic control. The proceeds of the Land Tax will be used to further the mission of the ATA.
The “free market” is incapable of limiting its own avariciousness and greed. Property has and always will concentrate upward into the hands of a few unless that tendency is positively counteracted by good democratic government.
The argument must be made to the present propertied class that the alternative to benign regulation by a central authority is a political revolution in the near-term. It is wiser to make some concessions now, than to face much more severe terms in future, at the end of what will surely be a bitter political struggle they cannot hope to win in the long term.
Editor: Please delete this accidental post. The post below is the correct version.
We need an “Auckland Housing Authority” (AHA) akin to the Auckland Transport Authority, with the fundamental mission of making Auckland the most livable city in the world.
The AHA will be responsible to make sure that all residents of Auckland have affordable, quality housing, whether it is to rent or to buy.
The AHA will have powers of enforcement with respect to WOFs on rental accommodation and building standards.
The AHA will act to identify and remove systemic impediments to the construction of high-quality, affordable housing.
The AHA will oversee all ordinary rents in Auckland, to ensure that they are “living rents”, that is, rents that permit people to live without exploitation by the rentier class.
The AHA will work with central government to restore living pensions to New Zealanders, to reduce pressures on residents to speculate on property in order to secure their retirement.
The AHA will ensure there are sufficient green spaces in the city, as well as linking up residential areas with public transport to create an environmentally sustainable city plan that reduces the need for car ownership and more road building.
The AHA will provide zoning plans, regulations, and recommend changes that are “binding” on council in the same manner as transport plans are “binding” on council.
The AHA will also have powers of resumption, like AT, to acquire land to provide housing, and to summarily acquire under-utilised (“land banked”) properties.
The AHA will operate a Land Trust similar to those in other parts of the world, owning the land, but selling the houses on that land to first home buyers at significantly reduced prices.
The AHA will introduce a Land Tax to further reduce speculation and land banking. The Land Tax will be graduated upward, based the value of all residential properties under the control of any single entity, to break up large holdings and prevent monopolistic control. The proceeds of the Land Tax will be used to further the mission of the AHA.
The “free market” is incapable of limiting its own avariciousness and greed. Property has and always will concentrate upward into the hands of a few unless that tendency is positively counteracted by good democratic government.
The argument must be made to the present propertied class that the alternative to benign regulation by a central authority is a political revolution in the near-term. It is wiser to make some concessions now, than to face much more severe terms in future, at the end of what will surely be a bitter political struggle they cannot hope to win in the long term.
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