Why National’s $600m, 24 000 new homes in Auckland plan is pure bullshit

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After being in denial that there was ever a housing crisis, National have suddenly woken up to the fact that their carefully nurtured property bubble fuelled by mass migration and greedy speculators is damaging them politically.

To date the property bubble has been wonderful as it has guaranteed middle NZ will always vote National to protect their illusion of wealth, but the extremes in inequality, poverty and homelessness are now spooking those middle class voters who are flirting with Labour because Andrew Little dumped a capital gains tax.

This means National need to launch new $600m, 24000 new houses lie on housing. It follows previous lies by Nick Smith who wandered around Auckland with journalists promising new houses that never eventuated.

It follows lies on affordable housing plans that all fall over.

It follows lies on State Housing Privatisation that has seen less houses and more standing vacant.

It follows news that last year we had 3877 on the emergency housing waiting list and now have 5,353.

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It follows us topping the list of homelessness in the developed world.

The grim  truth about National’s latest lie on housing is just how utterly hollow the plan really is.

Firstly, a 3 year plan to build 23 000 houses when we need 42 000 houses in that time isn’t actually a solution at all.

Secondly, this $600million they intend to spend is from the $664m dividend stolen from Housing NZ.

That’s right folks. National are taking money made from beneficiaries paying rent to fund a hollow housing project that won’t even meet demand.

This is the standard of ‘leadership’ we get from National.

If his billboard was honest it would read ‘Delivering for Rich NZers and the uneducated white masses’.

 

14 COMMENTS

  1. If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times, his name is Bullshit Bill”

    The evidence…

    http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/93450365/pm-talked-of-major-housing-crisis–salvation-army

    and more…

    http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/93450365/pm-talked-of-major-housing-crisis–salvation-army

    and more…

    “Finance Minister Bill English says he appreciates the support he gets from taxpayers, which saw him claim nearly $1000 a week to live in his family house in Wellington.

    “Mr English today defended the payments, saying it was within the rules and was the same as other ministers were getting. He had made the best option for his family and the cheapest for taxpayers.”

    “The best option for his family” So that is why he needs to be careful when condemning Meteria.

    • EVERYTHING THIS GOVERNMENT DOES IS BULLSHIT.!!!!!!!

      SEE WHAT THE PM’S OFFICE SAID ABOUT A REPORTER WHO WENT TO TODD BARCLAY’S OFFICE TO SEE WHEN HE WAS AVAILABLE FOR COMMENT.

      LUCKILY (RACHAEL KELLY) THE REPORTER – SHE HAD A CAMERA RECORDING OF THE EVENT THAT PROVED THE BULLSHIT THE PM’S OFFICE COMPLAINED TO THE POLICE ABOUT WAS NOT TRUE AT ALL= NATIONAL AGAIN WAS CAUGHT IN ANOTHER LIE.

      http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/player?audio_id=201851765

      SOURCE WAS FROM;
      Mediawatch looks critically at the New Zealand media – television, radio, newspapers and magazines as well as the ‘new’ electronic media.
      Sundays at 9:05am and 10:12pm

      Email: mediawatch@radionz.co.nz

      Shooting the messenger hunting an MP gone MIA
      Media Politics
      9:10 am today
      A recording allegedly made in secret was the downfall of scandal-struck MP Todd Barclay, who has vanished from public view. Now another recording has rescued the reputation of a reporter accused of… Read more AUDIO

      No-one home: a staffer at MP Todd Barclay’s Gore office greets Fairfax reporter Rachael Kelly. Photo: screenshot / stuff.co.nz

      They weren’t the only ones leafleting on the issue. On Monday, The Southland Times said police had been called after someone stuck notices calling for the MP’s resignation to the windows of Todd Barclay’s electorate office in Gore.
      That wasn’t the only time police were asked to act on people rocking up there.
      Fairfax Media’s reporter in Gore Rachael Kelly called by with a colleague last week to find out what Todd Barclay had been up to since disappearing from public life – but she had no luck.
      Last weekend, Fairfax Media’s political editor Tracy Watkins reported this:
      “Kelly and a local cameraman have been accused of intimidating and threatening behaviour, even of being physically aggressive. And the allegations were made at the highest levels, from the Prime Minister’s office and Parliamentary Service.”
      That sounded bad. Something must have gone very wrong.
      “It was alleged Kelly and her cameraman “barged” into Barclay’s office and harassed and intimidated staff – even pursuing them to the back of the office, leaving the staff feeling threatened and under siege,” wrote Tracy Watkins, who also said the police had been alerted.
      Tracy Watkins said Fairfax Media’s South Island editor-in-chief Joanna Norris had phone conversations with a senior member of the PM’s staff – who was not named – and the head of Parliamentary Service David Stevenson.
      But Rachael Kelly’s colleague was recording the encounter in question for a video reportto accompany her “Looking for Todd Barclay” story for the stuff.co.nz website.
      It showed the pair at the office only briefly and after being told the MP wasn’t there, they politely departed. No aggro, and no barging or forced entry as alleged by the PM’s office.
      After the video appeared online, the Parliamentary Service and Police decided no further action was necessary.
      “If it had not been for Stuff’s ability to produce video evidence, the allegations would probably have stuck,” said Tracey Watkins, who reckoned the response could be part of a Trump-type strategy to undermine the press.
      Rachel Kelly was filming her routine door-knocking because it was part of the story about looking for Todd Barclay. It was quite likely to be the only footage she would get in Gore that day with anyone who knew his whereabouts. On any other occasion, there would be no reason to have the camera running.
      If journalists are going to face unfair claims of bad behaviour, they’ll be tempted to record all their dealings with political figures and their staff just in case. That won’t make it easy to form relationships that journalists really need to gather real news.
      And it’s deeply ironic that this matter was settled by a recording of an encounter with Todd Barclay’s staff coming to light. That’s something that hasn’t happened yet in the matter of the secret recording Todd Barclay’s alleged to have made on the premises last year which ended up causing his downfall.

  2. My first thought on hearing this was that it is vague on how many “affordable” houses will be built.
    Affordable houses are rarely built on prime agricultural land on a city’s fringes, that is a fact.

  3. So that is where they stole the $600 million from. I thought it would be previously announced money allied with empty promises of more money on the never never.

    The thing is, this money will in its most simplest terms go straight to developers and investors back pockets who will still sell a property for as much as they can get but with far less overheads.

    It will not provide affordable housing.
    It will not do anything for capacity in any meaningful way.
    It will keep the speculator bubble occupied however.
    It will fool some that National are doing something but are doing next to nothing
    It will create even more traffic mayhem south of Papakura and then south of Manukau and then south of Auckland’s CBD.
    No extra money will go to basic services like health, education or policing.

    But what this is, is pay back money for the donors.

  4. Am I ever sick of the Nat bastards? Fucking lying, narcissistic scum bags. I’m sick of thinking about them, talking about them, trying to find ever more creative ways to bring them down, seeing their fucking ugly faces sneering at me from every angle. If the pricks don’t go in Sept’ I’m going to have to reevaluate my thinking because this is getting weird and unhealthy. They’re so unhealthy and unsavoury on all levels. They’re dull and witless yet cunning as a shit house rat. They have ears and eyes everywhere and have turned our welfare mechanism into a torture chamber for the poverty stricken they manufacture. Homelessness in NZ is hilariously sick on all levels. The irony is such that it’s like getting a giggle out of watching ducklings get squashed by a logging truck driven by Donald Duck.
    If they’re not voted out in September I think we should take things to the next level.
    Red Dot anyone? Get your red dots here? Get ‘em while they’re hot. Talk about bringing down NZ’s fascist regime and you’re sure to get a nice red dot.

  5. There is no such thing in New Zealand, in the larger urban areas, such as Auckland as an affordable housing,.Unless there is a a major meltdown in the property market.
    Lànd will never be cheaper and material costs are not likely to drop in price,nor will the labour content costs likely to reduce.
    The whole concept of affordable housing is a nonsense and pure news speak.Unfortunately the centralisation of economic activities in the larger centres, high immigration rates and the low numbers of dwellings constructed over the past twenty old years have exasperated the inability to supply affordable housing.
    I don’t expect the situation will change, for all the political waffle.

  6. Instead of taking half (1/2) the Public Chamberlain Golf Course for housing they should take the whole thing as well as Western Springs Park after all there are Lake Views to be had for the New Chinese Owners and don’t forget the Peking Duck FOC ?

    • “$500-$600k Affordable Housing”

      Andrew Little said that. I heard him on the radio. It must be true… They certainly seemed to be figures he was prepared to accept, even after his expensive court case. But he’s not on the minimum wage or less.

      Anyone got a breakdown of the ‘costs’ of building a house in various parts of the country – with insulation and materials that don’t ooze chemical fug for years?
      Anyone asked probing questions? Asked why materials cost so much, for example? Asked why the tradespeople are living such peripatetic and insecure lives?

      Who has tunneled under the forever-parroted ‘unaffordable housing’ mantra to find out the why of it all? We’ve done the emotional bit – ‘the kids can’t buy or rent a house’. Now let’s dig into the ‘why’ which is more than stupid pollies, venal banks, and the short-sightedness of star-nosed moles (aka town planners).

      Is it more fun to weep and wring hands on the matter – or fix the systemic problems?

  7. Actually the billboard is spot on. Bill English and National are delivering low wage, zero hour contract jobs like pizza delivery guys… that’s their “delivering for New Zealanders”.

    Cronies and offshore buddies, that’s another story – delivering an entire country for sale, on the cheap!

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