Let them rent hotels! Housing Crisis – what housing crisis?

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Martyn Bradbury
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The utter denial the Government are in over the housing crisis is becoming absurd.

‘Let them rent hotels’ seems to have replaced ‘Let them eat cake’ as a housing policy.

National can not admit there is a housing crisis because then they would have to solve it. They would have to solve state housing crisis, then the affordable housing crisis and the vast housing speculation.

National have no interest in doing any of that because they need the property bubble to create inflated GDP numbers.

The question is will NZers let Key get away with such denial.

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21 COMMENTS

  1. Of course New Zealanders will let them get away with it at the ballot box. National voters are property owners and transnational capital property speculators. We do not have a country, Bomber. Wake up. You may have a mortgage and/or children and therefore feel that you cannot take up arms against the state of “No” Zealand. Fortunately, and most-assuredly, there are a growing number of patriots with absolutely nothing to lose in fighting a civil war. The only way to stop the overlords is to execute them for treason.

    • Yes Martyn Key is a grubby little worm using our taxes to dangle a carrot over the poor and extract money from them at the same time to feed their rich motel owner mates at the same time as we all see.

      Castro’s right, it’s time for executions here by property seizure or worse.

      All words are over, now let the court of public opinion execute the orders to these creeps, that kick down and injure those who are needy and cant afford any motel paid rooms but a state house after national sold them with criminal intent all just for a pittance.

  2. I heard a rumour that National plans to sponsor a bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics, probably by Auckland.
    That would surely keep the building bubble soaring big time, which is what they desperately want to happen.
    Just imagine the hotels and villages that would be needed to house the teams. And of course when it is all over the homeless have somewhere to go, if they can afford the rent of course.
    That will solve the housing crisis in about 8 years time, just have to put up with your cars, garages, tents and sheds a few more years people.

  4. Andrew Little’s speech outlining areas of concern to most NZer’s , people such as Gareth Hughes of the Greens with his extraordinary speech , NZ First with its concerns of unbridled immigration policy , picking up the provincial vote , and many many more examples … are going to add to the grinding down process of this immoral govt.

    I don’t believe it will come in the form of any one major scandal. Kiwi’s are just too stoic in approach for that.

    It will come in the more mundane issues that will cause a gradual dissatisfaction with the way things are being handled . However ,… all these scandals are having a cumulative effect regardless… they have added weight in and of themselves. We can see this happening now. The TTPA, the Panama Papers … are causing suspicions in the minds of many.

    The 2017 elections are a ways off yet. But this hammering of the govt and keeping them on the back foot permanently on these basic issues is imperative.

    Also imperative is a close working together of Labour, Greens and NZ First. Firstly, to wage an effective campaign that does not work at cross purposes to each other . And secondly , if they are going to become an effective coalition govt… they need to be liaising now and setting those foundations – not just for them , – but for the general public as well.

  5. They realise that to the voters, the distinction between stating facts and spouting platitudes has collapsed. There is simply no need to tell the truth – it takes too much time to verify/disprove and by then the shit has stuck.

    Beneath contempt.

  9. New Zealand politics will change when extremely desperate people vastly outnumber ‘security forces’ and ‘security forces’ lose the battles for the streets.

    That day is coming but is still several years into the future.

    Europe is a closer to revolution than NZ but still has a way to go; at the moment ‘security forces’ still keep winning the battles for the streets:

    ‘The demonstration was called by the workers’ and trade unions under the slogan “enough is enough” to protest against what they dub “antisocial” government policies, which cut into the foundations of the country’s welfare system.’

    https://www.rt.com/news/344210-police-clash-protesters-brussels/

  10. Paula Bennet states that the housing problem is due to P cooking. I have inside knowledge that states there is under 1% of state homes affected by this. She is full of shit.

  11. The Nats have simply got this one wrong. They need to eat humble pie and get on with developing a solution.

    • They wont… they are trapped by their own neo liberal ideology .

      The whole ‘ market knows best ‘ ideology is about to be shown up for what it is:

      A LIE.

  12. What I find interesting is the brinkmanship going on. Who’s gunna blink first? Will kiwis think, ‘oh yeah, they are right, there is no crisis, it’s all just my imagination’, or will they go “holy crap, we have been lied to! Off with their heads!’
    And whats even scarier, is that I can’t tell which of those two responses kiwis will make. Because, ya know, we might just be really bad at caring about each other. Maybe it’s that simple, and that sad. We need to be better than we are.

  13. I trust tomorrow morning TDB will publish a post on the 5,000 dollars homeless bribe that Bennett came up with today. Not even her senior fellow Minister English knew about her “cunning plan” to give up to 5,000 bucks to homeless in Auckland, or those in state houses, who would be prepared to pack their bags and “f*ck off” out of the Metropolis, so the government will have fewer to worry about.

    And for the rest, they are in desperation now, having no solutions, it is spoiling them their budget fanfare, the budget will come and pass, and the MSM even may hardly report much on it, and continue presenting more horror stories about homeless sleeping rough, about families raising kids in cars and about WINZ beneficiaries living in expensive motels of rip off business persons, accruing thousands of debt that they will never be able to repay.

    John Key sounded like he had run out of answers this morning on RNZ’s Morning Report, he was so incoherent and full of vague excuses and explanations, it was the worst interview I ever heard anyone have with him.

    The man looked rather angry and stressed in Parliament too today, during question time.

    So perhaps tomorrow he may lose it again during the budget debate, and scream “where’s your guts?!”, “get some guts” and so forth, I can already hear and see it.

    The man is going towards his political sunset days now.

  15. As long as New Zealanders keep voting National, we will have more and more social dislocation. It happens as surely as day follows night when we elect Tories to govern.

  16. Why not set up trailer parks for the poor, homeless, beneficiaries and anyone else not part of Key’s “Brighter Future”??

    It could be fenced in, to keep the occupants from escaping, er, I mean wandering away.

    And the Nats can put a nice, big, sign up over the gates. Something like, ohm, I dunno, “WORK WILL SET YOU FREE” is kinda catchy.

    Is the slogan copyrighted? Has it been used before?

  17. This is disgusting on so many levels. I do not see why $5000 would be beneficial to the homeless, who as they dont have an address, are not eligible for any living assistance, nor any of those struggling with poverty, it will not sustain them but yes they will take this ‘hush money’. I had no idea this is the type of solution Paula Bennet, aka Queen hypocrite, has come up with. As many of the struggling are in extreme need and many of those in poverty, state houses or without homes have obvious obstacles to work, such as impairment, physical and mental or infants to care for these people are the most vulnerable of New Zealanders, and National know this. The obvious solution in my opinion would be to finance very low outlay for earthship type homes, mostly made of recycled materials, and very strong these homes are extremely cheap to make and also generate their own insulation, electricity and water, they also have built in glass houses for year round produce. This type of accommodation as well as wrap around support from various agencies and guidance into re education or any other type of appropriate confidence building initiatives would be the way to help people. I am alarmed that New Zealand wouldnt want to lead the world with this innovative solution to a global situation. The Nationals need to live in their cars, without their wallets or technological devices in New York for at least one month each.

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