Labour’s newly announced 4000 Mt Albert Kiwibuilds is a huge win for the new Government…
Housing Minister Phil Twyford has announced the first of the Government’s KiwiBuild homes.
It’s purchased 29 hectares of land at Unitec’s Mt Albert campus in Auckland, about 9km from the CBD.
Around 3000 to 4000 homes are expected to be built there.
…what this shows is that this Government is focused on cutting deals that will see them actively step in to be the lender of last resort in ensuring people can buy the houses. It is a realisation that the State must be far more active in the house building process than the joke free market situation National allowed to create their speculative property bubble.
It will need the state to step in as lender of last resort if it is to ensure Māori and Pacific Islanders can afford them along with Millennials and Get Xers.
Labour must ensure design is ethical, environmental and positive if it wants to make it a blueprint for more builds around Auckland and the rest of the country.
It’s a welcome first step and Phil Twyford has shown the Left he deserved the faith they have put in him to find solutions.
+100 good step in the direction of housing for New Zealanders who are without houses ….thanx to Jonkey Nactional
An innovative concept, which should get many Kiwi families into their first homes. A positive for Labour, but more importantly, a win for new home owners.
According to pathetic Bridges and Collins, it was all their idea, all ready to go this term, if Natz hadn’t lost the election … !!! Yeah right, after nine long cruel years, causing more and more impoverishment for far too many Kiwi families, to the extent of being forced to living in cars, sheds, tents etc, through no fault of their own!
Petulant, vindictive Natz are in a bad place at present, stating this concept was all in the planning, then come out condemning the idea and calling it a failure! Obnoxious, lying Natz not in a very good place at present. Good!
And the details are rather vague eh?, has anyone worked out the SIZE of these dwellings, lets call it 3,500 homes, on 29Ha. How much did the land sale cost, how much on infrastructure will be spent (sewerage/roads/transport) and how much will each house cost to build…what will the selling price be on a 2 or a 3 bedroom home, when will the first house actually be built and the first occupants move in?
Love it when you all praise ‘progress’ but omit to actually ask the hard questions that you would if it was a National announcement, such sweet leftie sycophant blindness, even Twitford hasn’t worked out the $$$’s nor timeline when he is asked (Collins will wear him down question by question). He will be one of the many ministers to fail before this term is out (if it lasts that long of course as NZ First MP’s seem to have gone rogue already)
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