Joining us tonight to discuss the appalling homelessness and housing crisis impacting New Zealand
In studio,
Policy advisor to the Salvation Army and Child Poverty Action Group – Alan Johnson
Mangere Community Law Centre Advocate and organiser for the #Parkupforhomes event happening tomorrow night – Justin Latif
On Skype, Labour Party Spokesperson for Housing, Phil Twyford And Green Party spokesperson for the Homeless – Marama Davidson
It all comes down to National’s slavish market neoliberal faith: 1. Government is bad and its fiscal power should be drowned in a bath tub hence tax giveaways and a refusal to maintain the state housing system.Plus its purpose is to assist business not society.2. Welfare is bad chuck people off survival income for any technical reason. 3. Total refusal to stop the speculators for capital gain housing bonanza 4. The worship of wealth cult. 5. The dehumanisation of unfortunates in our society.6. National is the do nothing bare minimum party while its leader sells us out to the TPPA and flogs of our assets. And goes for yet another overseas jaunt.7. Basically they despise keeping the house in order for ordinary kiwis. they know the price in lucre of everything and the value of nothing like a healthy cohesive and happy society. They merely retreat to their gated communities.
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Sabine 9
16 June 2016 at 11:36 am
This is not a shambles, this is what it is supposed to be.
Economical cleansing.
http://www.newshub.co.nz/nznews/families-left-homeless-by-rising-housing-nz-rents-2016061509#axzz4BgKmKTnq
and again, smear those that provide help to the most needy as.
Quote: An Auckland advocacy group for the poor says it is dealing with an increasing number of Housing New Zealand tenants being evicted into homelessness.
But the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) says Auckland Action Against Poverty (AAAP) has been making “broad, uninformed claims without understanding the facts in each case and getting it wrong”.Quote End.
OF course it must be the fault of those trying to help, it can’t be the fault of those making the problem larger and larger by the fucking minute.
Rae 10
16 June 2016 at 11:39 am
Pop up HOMES? What? Pop up shelter, yes, but homes, not ever, never, not even, NO!
Who in the political arena is prepared to put a few things on the line?
Who is prepared to call all this rubbish for what it is?
Who is prepared to unequivocally state that housing is for people to live in, to make their HOMES in, and should be and will not be a means of speculating and/or “investing” on. Homes are places where people settle down, in their own HOME, bring up families, have pets, make gardens, hang pictures on walls that are painted a colour of their choice, contribute to the community, without, forever hanging over their head, the prospect of the house being sold out from under them as the owner wants to cash out.
I am saddened enormously there are people now who have not known anything else other than a precarious housing system, and that this kind of precarious living is now normal, and thinking of housing should not be the stamping ground of investors, strange.
Among the homeless, I now count reluctant renters, they may not be house or shelterless, but they, in fact, HOMEless. Let’s get really real about this, speculators just use tenants as a “gap filler” while they wait for enough profit to come off a property, then they are gone. That’s homelessness as far as I am concerned.
This is just about a terminal situation now, one way or the other. Leave the status quo, and it won’t be long before we are a majority of renters, people who will never be able to provide for their retirement as people who are into this “every man and his dog being a landlord” are currently. If we do what needs to be done to make a house purchase much easier, then it will probably require a fairly decent collapse in house prices, as waiting for wages to catch up will still see a couple more generations of renters.
I want now to see a political party who is prepared to lay it on the line, now, and say that tenancy laws are going to change to better resemble those of, say, Germany. The prime intent of any change must first and foremost be, that anyone who is renting is able to make a HOME of where they are. This will mean removing a lot of “rights” that landlords currently have, and will quite possibly turn many off the idea of being one in the first place, which will further make it possible for more homeowners to buy their own stake in the ground.
Whatever happens, it must be made utterly, utterly clear to all, that housing is NOT to be used as some sort of casino.
I would also make it quite clear that foreigners have NO part in our existing housing market, and I would make it illegal for them to be landlords. We are paying welfare to many of them via accommodation top ups. Those too, will require phasing out, with rent controls replacing them.
Refer http://www.thestandard.org.nz
Jeez, not just the social housing minister – the whole lot are a dysfunctional rabble under a leader too busy preening himself for the cameras to take any notice.
You can imagine what Rob Muldoon would do if he were still here, at the very least he would already have kicked some butts – very hard. He wouldn’t have tolerated what goes on in the National Party today under a dgaf leader.
“I don’t want to see Kiwi’s as tenants in their own land” J Key 2010.
Oh!!! I get it now.
So he throws kiwi’s out of Government rental housing and makes them not tenants any more?
“I don’t want to see Kiwi’s as tenants in their own land” J Key 2010.
Oh!!! I get it now.
So he throws kiwi’s out of Government rental housing and makes them not tenants any more?
Top class show Martyn you put on last night.
I see Paula Bennett was absent ay parliament at question and answer today whole Phil Twyford asked questions?
I wish New Zealand would adopt truly revolutionary new affordable housing ideas, such as these started in Chile:
http://www.shareable.net/blog/affordable-housing-innovator-alejandro-aravena-wins-top-architecture-award
http://citiesprogramme.com/archives/research/sustainable-affordable-housing
What we have tended to do is either let government or private enterprise do ALL the work and provide finished homes. That is ok to a degree, but it is a struggle often, as it is not that affordable, especially in an over priced market as we have in Auckland.
The smart idea may be, to incentivise those that have abilities to learn and do things, and do some work themselves, by adding to basic housing the state may provide. Allow them some space, give them some basic building and associate skills, that can also be used on the job market, and let them improve and add to the basic dwellings.
That means basically low start up investment costs, mainly for land and a basic home structure, which can be so designed that it can be added and and extended. Apart from disabled and sick, the remaining bulk of people that struggle to afford housing, could be helped to get the home they need and want, within certain guidelines and standards.
It used to be common in past generations that people built their own homes, here is the solution to go back to those roots, we can do it better than they do in Chile, I am sure, if only some smart people in Greens, Labour and / or NZ First pick this up and promote it as a government plan for the future.
This is the way to go for NZ –
Build the basic structures, on land the government buys or provides, and let the people do the rest!
http://www.curbed.com/2016/1/13/10847596/pritzker-prize-2016-architect-alejandro-aravena-winner
My brother built his home which he could never have afforded if he had it all done for himself and his family, by doing his bit in evenings and on weekends. We need to offer such solutions for those that are able bodied, and who can learn to use a hammer and some other tools, following building rules, to do their own share.
That way costs can be minimised, that is construction costs. Those unable to do so will still get basic housing, or have the state do the full job, but the ever growing number of people who have jobs and cannot afford their homes, they may find this a solution.
But this will also need to be accompanied by a smarter, more restrictive and better managed immigration policy, as it is not on, to simply fake economic growth by simply growing the population by allowing endless numbers of migrants in.
John Key and his government have failed us abysmally, they are like criminals, that took the crack, let it go rampant in housing and consumption on debt, and that will lead to a terrible breakdown and withdrawal for all of us. It is time we tell the people the damned truth, to pull them out of their drug addicted slumber, and shake them into reality. It will be our job, the ones fighting this government, to get us all back into reality and onto track.
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