How tiny is Poto Williams table for renters? When it was property speculators, Labour went out and bought them a new table, lounge suit and 3 houses.
When it’s renters, they can go fuck themselves.
Last month Matthew Hooton tweeted a graph showing NZ with the highest level of house price inflation with the following message, ‘why I’m voting Labour’…
…last week Damien Grant did the same…
…when the Darth Vader Twins of the NZ right are cheering your housing policy, something has gone horribly wrong.
Grant Robertson should get a knighthood for services to property speculators.
To stave off an economic stampede as Covid broke out, the Government pumped billions into the banks who in turn used that to spark a speculative gold rush that will crucify renters once Adrian Orr has to raise mortgage rates.
Mortgage rates that the Megalandlord scum class will push straight onto their tenants!
The landlord class have a vast power over the renter class who have bugger all!
Surely an explosion of food inflation and oppressive rent hikes must be met with militancy!
A nationwide rent strike with clear instructions to the landlords to get the rent paid by Labour would terrify this nation of property speculators and their political handlers.
Burning down ghost houses should be next.
Previously renter militancy couldn’t be collectively harvested to be effective but social media can do that and so much more!
The politicians, landlords and banks have rigged the game for themselves – if we enter a winter of discontent from greedy landlords raising rents, we should strike back on the place that hurts them most, their wallets and their precious assets!
The truth (like everything else in fucking NZ), is that the under regulated free market has been warped by the wealthy for their interests and all Labour attempt is bullshit tinkering on the sides rather than challenge the dominance of neoliberal theology.
We have allowed the commodification of houses to be a means to make wealth and people are chasing that with all the nuance of meth addicts in a P lab.
If Labour wanted actual solutions, these 3 would do it.
1 – FLOOD MARKET WITH MASS STATE HOUSING REBUILD: End the scum landlord subsidy of housing allowances end putting money into the pockets of unscrupulous motel owners by rapidly building 50 000 new state homes. Scum Landlords can do as they please because the level of desperation amongst renters gives them total power. Flooding the market with 50 000 new state houses would rob scum landlords of that desperation.
2 – STATE HOUSE FOR LIFE: Allow beneficiaries to stay in their state home for life so that they can create stable communities and that their desperation is never transported back to Landlords.
3 – DEPOSIT RESTRICTIONS: I have no issue with people who own their own home, or have a batch or even a 3rd property to provide income into your retirement. What I have no time for is people who own 4 properties, 5 properties, 10 properties, 20 properties, 80 properties. First time home buys should be required to have 10% deposit, but the more properties you own, the higher the deposit. The reason the speculators can out buy any first time home owner is because they can use their multiple properties to leverage more debt. If you are a property speculator, you need to turn up with a 70% deposit to counter the leverage multiple properties allows them.
If Labour want to actually solve the problem they have to regulate the market and re-set it so that speculation is punished while first home ownership and housing of the poor is championed.
For too long we have allowed the the rich to dictate the rules, if Labour’s kindness is to be meaningful, it needs to challenge that dynamic.
Unfortunately Labour are not looking for solutions, they are looking for the pretence of a solution to ease criticism from their Left.
That’s ‘neokindness’.
A rent strike would force Labour to do something more meaningful than tilting their head to one side and nodding sadly!
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4 years of this Labour government says, actually it screams, they ain’t interested in doing a damned thing about the housing market especially for those not in it already other than ensuring prices keep rising.
Isn’t that why we have motels?
Isn’t that what cars are for?
And the prissy bureaucrats and planners who have jobs to do, climate change goals to meet, and salaries to collect also steps up the promotion ladder to prepare for, are cancelling out parking places for cars, also not demanding on new builds, parking places, garages etc. They want us all to cycle in the rain and wind with lack of protection against trucks, mad or careless motorists, and no doubt carry our children on our backs like spiders. They are charging parking fines that would buy almost a week’s meals for a couple.
These managers of society have no bloody interest in people just their beautiful plans and models all in lovely colours with the sun shining on perfect spaces and buildings. Let them go and live in computer land, like in the Truman Show – roll up, roll up and step behind the screen – you jerks.
No doubt @GW, they have a spreadsheet JUST for you.
But you’d have to agree, the BS is wearing thin, and they’ll more than likely be left wondering ‘What did I do”.
Btw: Do you still visit that site that’s managed by the world’s best programmer who has all the creds to justify his claims to fame? The one where some of the moderators are yet to work out their arse from their elbow and who’re prepared to cancel people that relate to politicians telling first hand what they think, but who they don’t agree with, or who strive to be offended on their behalf.
I’m preying for another Singapore contract for their most gorgeous – in fact I could probably put my people in touch with his people in that space going forward. In the fullness of time of course.
OwR You are so obscure that you almost blend into the background like in a Gary Larson cartoon. I do go there sometimes when I have some environmental stuff that interests me and is likely to do also with their participants. Also to read Robert G the bright light who leads the way to a greener and more pleasant land.
And I think highly of the great programmer who does what he does so faithfully – remembering that he has had heart problems etc – and his posts and comments are always interesting and often very forthright, or full of special knowledge and understanding that he has from his university study. Good to see you keeping on, things must get aired, and I think TDB has good limits and this blog woud be one of the eminient open ones in NZ. Though I think there are others that I should look at. Bowalley I do, do you look at Bryan Gould’s – he is conservative and thoughtful – long time involved so good on historical background I think?
Eg Auckland City Council (‘managers’ of the city), wage bill reaches one billion dollars a year.
Every year.
Just the wage bill…
That’s a lot of food for families worth.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-council-staff-could-get-57m-pay-rise-taking-wage-bill-to-a-whopping-1-billion/KHHQNBGUMAPJHQFJYUEAGPIXUQ/
The first thing that should happen is that Megan Woods should be returned to the back benches, and someone with some idea of how to build houses is put in her place. Why she’s been allowed to be so ineffectual for so long beats me.
When you compare the other ministers she looks good and that proves they are a party that is on the skids roll on 2023
LOL. The poor man’s Gordon Brown vanity got us in this situation. He didn’t want to look like the economic numpty he is therefore him and Orr concocted the most expensive can kicking exercise in NZ’s history and pumped up domestic inflation fueled by cheap debt.
Winter is coming due to the lunacy of these two. Extra $8,000 per annum for a $400,000 mortgage when people’s cost of living is already skyrocketing will go down like a cup of cold sick.
“The poor man’s Gordon Brown vanity got us in this situation. He didn’t want to look like the economic numpty he is therefore him (sic) and Orr concocted the most expensive can kicking exercise in NZ’s history and pumped up domestic inflation fueled by cheap debt.”
The problem lies not with the government, but with the banking system. We need to stop the banks creating money out of nothing, and set up a new state owned “State Advances Corporation” to lend money for housing purposes.
Housing is clearly this Governments biggest failure.
How can a Government that cares about people sit back and watch this all unfold…..and do SFA?
How can any NZ Government allow and even encourage the most diabolical inequity I’ve ever witnessed in my lifetime? Even Blind Freddy can see it FFS.
How can this Government allow the hopes of a generation of young Kiwi families to own their own home be flushed down the shitter a bit more every month….and do SFA?
The PM has walked a tight rope. She doesn’t want house prices to fall because of the implications but wants housing to be affordable. She’s paralyzed and stuck in no man’s land….and it shows month after month after month.
I’m convinced based on all the evidence I see that this Government is out of its depth. The problem is way too big and their ineffective perfunctory answers are way too small.
Ask yourself these questions.
If you really took the housing debacle seriously, would you appoint the clueless and inept Phil Twyford as the Minister of Housing?
If your fantasy housing plan was brutally exposed to the point it was a deserved and constant source of ridicule that required a “reset”, would you then replace the inept Phil Twyford with the morbidly obese and equally inept Megan Woods?
It saddens me immensely to say that on housing the Ardern Government have stumbled around like blind turtles stuck in a maze. I’ve seen absolutely zero evidence to suggest anything from them other than more of the same.
“If your fantasy housing plan was brutally exposed to the point it was a deserved and constant source of ridicule that required a “reset”, would you then replace the inept Phil Twyford with the morbidly obese and equally inept Megan Woods?”
What makes you think that Twyford and Woods are inept? What makes you think Nicola Willis would do any better? What makes you think that the problem is even soluble? I would suggest that, instead of ranting, you might start living up to your pseudonym. You could start by asking whether there some way of stopping the banks pouring money into the housing market.
So easy to fix the housing situation
-graduated stamp duties ,primary home exempt-investors disincentivised
-levy on homes empty for 6 months or more without compelling reason
-soft loans for 1st home buyers…10 year moratorium on selling without penalty
NZ=highest house prices in the world
NZ=highest rents in the world
Govt enthrall to banks and the FIRE economy=hopeless.
Wind.In.Piss unfortunately @ Blazer.
OK if you’re into Golden Showers. For me – not so much.
This is all just so funny – the cost of housing in NZ has nothing to do with those so called scum lords it’s mostly an issue of supply.
After the earthquake in Christchurch they had a massive building program after releasing huge areas of land upon which to build and wouldn’t you know it, prices flat lined…
Blame landlords, Labour or whoever but it’s pointless.
The system is broken, councils are incentivised to not release land as they can’t afford the infrastructure (to many lefties spending money on rainbow crossings and cycle paths) so the put in Urban Limits and block development any which way they can.
If labour wanted to do something they should just compulsory purchase all the land between Albany and Warkworth. Put in the infrastructure to open it up and then watch the value of building land collapse.
This will never happen though as those Chardonnay Socialists think we all need to live in dinky little flats like those wonderful Scandinavians do. That and they couldn’t run a bath without a committee, 7 working groups and at least 24 huis across the nation.
Didn’t see Key ,English or Joyce take up any of your ideas either. I think the conservative media interviewing their typewriters would call that ‘nanny state’.
Better off thinking like a Nat. and just fly plane loads of Chinese in on $5.00 per hour and build them out of bamboo using the Alibaba kit-set house spec. sheet which you can buy at the $2.00 shop for… $1.00…. job done….
You’re right Yeti, so much open green unbuilt land near Albany. If say, people could build a house wherever they wanted there, the land price factor would be like in Texas, low, and house would be much cheaper.
But that wouldn’t suit the greens and others would it?
They want high density corridors alongside train tracks.
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