Dear NZ Renters – National is the Party of Landlords, they won’t make rent cheaper!

By
Martyn Bradbury
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I know. I know. I know.

Jacinda promised us affordable housing.

She promised to be transformative.

She’s made it far, far, far worse.

By shovelling cash into the Economy to offset Covid,  she and Grant have have overseen the largest transfer of wealth to the richest in NZs history…

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…I know.

B-U-T.

If you think National – the Party of Landlords, is going to lower your rents, you’re more stupid than I thought.

Sadly Labour/Greens have offered nothing to renters so in desperation they turn to a leader who owns 7 properties.

The Left need to cancel less + build more houses!

Labour and the Greens can rebuild their bloody slide on Parliament’s lawns after they’ve housed the 25 000 Kiwis waiting on emergency housing lists.

 

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29 COMMENTS

  1. Build more houses!

    State houses yes.Just building more houses in general swells existing landlords portfoilo’s.
    When RE prices go up 30% in one year,who else can afford them?
    And now National want to reverse the brightline and tax claim legislation.
    The present Govt is also ramping up its scheme to promote NZ to wealthy immigrants.
    That usually means spend X million on RE and get citizenship….rent them,leave them empty…who cares!
    The young generations all migrate to affordable pastures and Keys observation about becoming tenants in your own country…continues.

    Luxury, Luxons mentor,ex PM and ex forex gambler and his son join up with ex brothel owners in a new property development company targeting ex state house areas where the tenants have been moved…on.

    All done in the best…possible ..taste…no protests….NZ today Landlordzown Country.

  2. Labour must know we are truly in the shit because they are hell bent on losing the next election.

    • Not a lot of people in Labour or National with any real ability, mainly lawyers, school teachers, professional politicans shall I go on, been the same for the past 40 years.

  3. Landlords already have something that Labour doesn’t…accommodation. Landlords, once incentived, can also provide something much faster and in much bigger quantities than Labour ever will…accommodation. Take your pick. No accommodation with Labour or accommodation with National.

    • Renters can live under the Kiwislides, in unsafe emergency housing or a new built slum. Choices, Choices!

      Great when middle class MP’s who have landlord chips on their shoulders get ultimate power to implement their new rules of warm, dry, Stasi style housing built by right wing capitalists, paid by taxpayers for renters, go into production. Yippee.

      After all their reforms in selling off state house land, removing undesirable housing tenants from expensive locations to be sold and redeveloped for the super rich coming to NZ, while buying back or building slum hotels and a massive waiting list as high needs people are encouraged to come to NZ and be supported, while middle and working class Kiwis get a bowl of rice wages that seem to be dropping in our cash economy to below minimum wages….

      Skilled people leave to go to OZ, unskilled people replace them with families that need housing, schooling and health care. For every skilled person leaving NZ, a family of 4+ based on a study visa or working visa for essential skills like retail manager or aged care. (See https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/dementia-care-impossible-to-believe-my-dear-wife-wasnt-slowly-starved/AOHDAOHLLYXUL3QUTPAHSAGCXI/ on the state of aged care in NZ which pays 6% less for nurses than hospital nurses and get unskilled ‘carers’ instead while aged care providers made record profits).

      After decades of this, and promises that Labour would be better, they have been found out and actually made housing and skills and service levels in NZ worse.

      If they had just stuck with saving people from Covid they would still be popular. Instead they keep tying to emulate the Natz policy with more taxes.

      Another voter loser agreed under secrecy…. more multimillion dollar apartments that Kiwis can’t afford or want to live in, blocking everyone else’s view in areas that already have major transport and sewerage issues that have never been solved by council, before making it worse with higher intensity zoning.

      Auckland’s heritage villas, bungalows could be demolished for high-density housing
      https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/aucklands-heritage-villas-bungalows-could-be-demolished-for-high-density-housing/2FQ4PHZHBYTZWPSLRX4IWIV27A/

      “She said the law allowing for three-storey blocks with no design requirements without a resource consent was frightening and could see buildings painted bright yellow or stripes on the Devonport waterfront and Queens Parade.”

  6. At the moment our political future looks bleak indeed, A choice between Labour and National gives me nope confidence that things are going to be getting any better for the average NZer no matter who wins

  7. Martin I completely agree that National is the party of Landlords and speculators.

    A while ago Simon Bridges came out and said the property price increase was all down to the RBNZ monetary policy but now National are open about the fact that they will do all they can to make Bernard’s largely unrealised gains realisable. Winding back the bright line test and making interest deductible again will be completely counter to letting property values decline to more “sustainable” levels.

    • Wheel and Martyn you are both wrong. LABOUR is the party for landlords and speculators. No party has transferred more wealth to them than this Labour govt.

  8. Worth reading about NZ’s obsessive policies that don’t work… all this effects housing as more people who are coming to NZ need housing.

    The other concern, is that statistics are not even able to be discussed in woke NZ (in fact abandoned in many cases), as woke and right wing NZ can not tolerate deviation from its goals.

    Large-scale (non-citizen) immigration to New Zealand has been making us poorer
    https://croakingcassandra.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/large-scale-non-citizen-immigration-to-new-zealand-is-making-us-poorer-mana-u3a-sept-2017.pdf

    “Only one OECD country that has had a lot more immigration than NZ has had over recent decades. That’s Israel. Probably not coincidentally, their productivity growth has been almost as bad as New Zealand’s. And despite all the hype about high-tech Israel, their per capita incomes are very similar to ours – both trailing far behind the leading advanced countries. GDP per hour worked in places like Germany, France or the Netherlands is now around 60 per cent higher than that in NZ or Israel. Each of those countries was poorer and less productive than NZ for at least 100 years from 1860.
    But there is another important strand to the New Zealand story, that reinforces just how unwise our immigration policy is turning out to have been.
    New Zealand is almost totally reliant, in its foreign trade, on what able people can do with a fixed quantity of natural resources. Not many advanced countries are now in that position – Norway and Australia are the others. But it has been the New Zealand story throughout our modern history.”

  9. Isn’t the obvious answer not to vote for either of them? The endless two party tribalism is destroying this country.

  10. I think we should contract a team of behavioural psychologists to analyse we AO/NZ’ers and our multi layered society.
    I think we should take that seemingly preposterous idea seriously. I like using full stops.
    We need therapy.
    We meander about like lost lambs until someone with an interest in mint sauce rounds us up, herds us into little boxes, makes us pay them for our incarceration, then once ‘in there’ we must Wok Hadda ! ! !! until we become too much of an embarrassment for them to see us dying of old age in Mitre 10 Mega’s isles so they allow us to have some of our money back if only to barely survive on until a merciless, cruel, vile, hateful mythical god we’re meant to adore pulls the plug on us. In the meantime Ka Chingo for you’s rich fellas aye?
    I’ve noticed, because I’m even more brilliant than I am handsome, that we AO/NZ’ers behave in a manner that suggests that we are less modern, urbane, intelligent, well educated, erudite Global Village people and more a population of wet chickens with head injuries.
    We don’t need tourists, we don’t need four foreign banks taking $6 billion a year in net profits, we don’t need to be as fucked as we are, we don’t need the hideous american subculture of greed is good, we don’t need to work tirelessly just to survive. We literally, actually don’t need to be those things, we don’t need to feel so vulnerable and afraid as the bank statements start to pile up. We don’t NEED nor deserve any of that shit.
    So why are we so compliant to being hunted down by forces that demand those things from us?
    Why are we so compliant and seem so rendered powerless in the face of our political abusers who do not much more that sell us out to private foreign financial interests?
    We need therapy. We need a re boot. We need a leader/s. We need guidance and support. Not a useless fucking cadre of expensive narcissists with hair, teeth and head polish. We need Class, we need style, we need elegance and all coupled up to see our most at risk flourish, for a fucking change.
    So we also need an actor.

  11. I agree we need more state housing but we should not let this government have anything to do with running them. 4 years ago State tenants owed $750000 now the back rent debt is $9 million . If you add the money paid out in repairs and reparations to neighbours of unruly state tenants we are suffering a heap of mismanagement.

    • …the rent arrears go hand in hand with the no eviction policy. Because, you know, some people only understand consequences.

      • So the Natz are going to let their property speculator mates (not mum and dad investors) back in the game. They did enough damage to the NZ economy between 2012 to 2017 (100% rise) with Bills rock star economy and last year (30% rise) in cahoots with the aussie banks. Natz dont like the poor, Maori, Indians, Pacifica, unemployed, homeless, beneficiaries, pensioners, – no votes in it for them. Tax breaks for the rich.

      • robbie and trev, good points it needs to be emphasised that a state house is a national asset that is in your care…and your job is not to fuck up that asset and pay the rent.
        in return you should get decent housing at a reasonable price.

        BOTH sides have rights and responsibilities.

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