The neoliberal NZ experiment has spawned a baby boomer subdivided middle class whose only illusion of wealth is the increasing property valuations generated by unfettered overseas buyers and slum lord property speculators.
The Political class are all property owners and they are benefiting from the rigged neoliberal casino of property speculation…
MPs have pocketed $50 million in capital gains from their property interests in the last year amid a growing housing affordability crisis, a Stuff analysis has found.
It represents a significant increase in wealth for many elected representatives, around 95 per cent of whom have land or property interests. The vast majority of MPs are accumulating more wealth from their properties than from their salaries.
…the current political spectrum refuses to challenge a neoliberal system they are benefiting from.
We need a Radical Renters Party that is economically eco-socialist and focused on material well being and fundamental capitalist reform rather than the minefield of woke identity politics.
Bernard Hickey gives a damning perspective in 2015…
Imagine what a political party designed to represent New Zealand’s young renters would do if it got into power in Auckland or Wellington.
Let’s call it the Generation Rent Party.
Wooing the young and disenfranchised vote certainly won United States President Barack Obama his second term, but it was clear after last year’s election that no one has managed it in New Zealand.
Bernard was right 7 years ago, we need a Radical Renters Party.
We require new law cementing in long term tenancies with rent controls and the promotion of ‘ethical landlords’, people who refuse to squeeze every last drop of money out of their tenants for needless greed.
Our social inequality demands solutions, renters rights and affordable housing is part of that solution, the current propertied political class benefiting from our renting misery are the problem.
A Radical Renters Party would demand universal services were well funded that MSD and IRD couldn’t claw back.
- Free public transport
- Free School lunches and Breakfasts
- 30% stake holding in Supermarket duopoly to bring down prices permanently
- Sugar tax to fund free dental
- Legal cannabis market so renters aren’t kicked out of tenancies for smoking cannabis.
- Stop property speculators from
- 50 000 eco-state houses
- Owner Occupier first home buyer affordable houses on specially built urban apartments built on Public Works Act seized Golf Courses.
- Financial transaction tax on the banks and corporations.
I’m sick of waiting for Labour and the Greens to stop wasting time with the low hanging fruit of identity politics and start effecting change for everybody’s week to week bills!
40% of us are renters, the economy is rigged in favour of the property owners, if we acted collectively we could use MMP to leverage vast new parameters.
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YES! I have been working on this for some time. Hit me up.
why would I as non property owner want to join a party run by an ageist bigot?
Various Governments (both Local and Central) would crack down on any Renters Party by any means necessary…simply due to the fact it (Renters Party) could damage their income from rents…Go for it
We need a new left wing Radical Renters Party – NZ already has it, called the Green Party.
Since they started their radical rental policy changes based on woke committee members on 6 figure salaries they have
Made the state house waiting list longer.
Made the emergency housing list longer.
Made both state and emergency housing unsafe with anti social tenants that are above the law and their neighbours are the ones forced out of their homes.
Made infrastructure for rich private developers paid for by increased rates from their working and middle class neighbouring ratepayers and taxes.
increased debt and risks for councils and government with white elephant development projects everywhere.
Made healthy home policy so that the majority of NZ existing housing doesn’t comply and need to be sold off or upgraded which costs so much that they are no longer rented but gentrified.
Thrown out zoning so it’s a free for all, and a new oversupply of developer built spec houses for overseas speculators to own or new people coming to NZ who are the only ones who want and can afford the new apartments but then create more problems for NZ’s groaning health, transport, schools, social welfare, courts etc
Made most of Auckland unaffordable and full of apartments families wants to live in and now starting on gentrifying South Auckland to get rid of the renting Polynesian community there.
165,000 new resident visa and there is no cut off point for new residents to come to NZ so it’s open slather for immigration again such as the 300,000 people per year on temp visas that caused most of the problems for Labour and Greens they started in 2017 that caused much of the crisis in NZ.
Alienated entire towns like Rotorua against the homeless, based on their version of planning of woke slums in city centres.
Made minority people feel ashamed of their identity as the insane woke police pretend to speak for them.
Allowed a construction industry to employ people who are not qualified and then allowed those that employed them to get off scot free with a free ride to do it again, while those posing as qualified, set up new companies. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/467061/student-engineer-signed-off-dozens-of-projects-while-posing-as-structural-expert
Removed tax incentives for private landlords with existing housing to give them to overseas landlords who invest in the oversupply of new builds so the developers can keep the new build prices high and thus will not do what they predicted which is to drop the prices of new builds in NZ.
Well put saveNZ.
So you think we should just kick people out of houses for no good reason. That is really going to help homlessess.
?????? Doesn’t seem to be part of my list.
Welcom to the wonderful world of The National party.
At least they built more social houses than the tories.
I would vote for this party as its the only way my two kids are going to get their own house.
The only way they will get their own house is to earn enough money to afford it. Like all of us. It’s not rocket science. They just need to make it happen.
cabbage will be glad to provide new boots with straps to anyone interested…no doubt.
Hold on! Hold on! Before you all get carried away here again.
What do you mean by ‘the left?’
Do you mean the Woke? The Wellington Woke? The Wheelie Woke? Or the something else, like the ‘Left?’
Because there hasn’t been a ‘left’ in NZ for at least the last 5 years or more.
The fake fuckers calling themselves the left are more nazi and fascist than the fucking Nazis and Fascists are!
Sort that out and you might figure out why housing poverty is prevalent still in NZ.
It costs $365m a year in motel bills!
Spot on TMM.
A single issue party? Its focusing on a single organ symptom of a multi system disease.
A single issue party with the following positions.
Free public transport
Free School lunches and Breakfasts
30% stake holding in Supermarket duopoly to bring down prices permanently
Sugar tax to fund free dental
Legal cannabis market so renters aren’t kicked out of tenancies for smoking cannabis.
Stop property speculators from
50 000 eco-state houses
Owner Occupier first home buyer affordable houses on specially built urban apartments built on Public Works Act seized Golf Courses.
Financial transaction tax on the banks and corporations.
Well its a start and a policy position that would appeal to tertiary students and messaging directly to the renters and others bypassing corporate media and NZ on Air.
Why is no one using the example of the Deplorables for REAL crisis like Climate Catastrophe?
If the Deplorables are so STUPID and IGNORANT how did they command front page coverage for WEEKS and occupy Parliament lawns for so long?
They put Lefties to shame!
mooon-rekt “…how did they occupy Parliament lawns so long” ? Because when Labour, National, and the Green Party, all refused to engage with the original protestors, and when the government dowsed them with water day and night and bombarded them with torturous music, a miscellany of other persons descended upon Wellington from north, south, east, and west, in sympathy and in shock that this is how our elected representatives treat those who think differently from them. It was more than just a Lefty issue, it began with Parliamentarians of all ilk uniting against those not in their privileged self-protective cocoon, and all sorts of people then responded to this.
So true
They were all right wingers including Winston, Fox, Tamaki, King, etc – no lefties among the deplorables.
replace the word ‘boomer’ with a descriptor for any other group and see if you feel more or less of a bigot.
” Various Governments (both Local and Central) would crack down on any Renters Party by any means necessary…simply due to the fact it (Renters Party) could damage their income from rents…Go for it ”
Well the same sort of negativity and derision was around in 1916 when the NZLP was formed and in 1991 with the formation of the Alliance which went on to capture 18% of the vote which under MMP counts for a hell of a lot.
Any party like this would need to be steadfast and not back down on its core principles and would prove to the electorate and those who want real action that it means business and is totally focused.
The Alliance was a collection of individuals with good intent but driven apart by ideology. Read the history it is a sad story
But there already is a left wing party. Labour have promised lots of solutions…
oh, right…
My mistake.
As you were.
Another policy item that should be added to the list would be: depriving the private banking system of the right to create “fiat” money.
Hear hear.
That is the root of most of our problems (since August 15th 1971). But could be agrued, since the creation of the ‘F.E.D and made worse later on by Breeton Woods’.
all money is fiat as crypto speculators are learning right now….the so-called gold standard only works because we agree gold(a useless though pretty yellow metal) has worth if that illusion doesn’t hold then gold fails like any paper currency….it’s the ‘collective agreement’ that makes currency work
There is a flaw in this argument. Removing charges for public transport and other services, does not magically remove the cost. To pay for free transport, or other “free” services, either rates or taxes or both, have to increase.
If rates increase, the cost gets passed on in rent increases.
The concept is financially unreasonable. Sorry but reality is a bitch.
but a renationalised public transport system maybe will need less subsidy than the massive handouts we give the private transport industry because they can’t hack it in a capitalist free market…I don’t know has anyone done the figures? what I do know is no one has given me an example of a higher quality/cheaper privatised service.
If public transport was payed for by the government, and rental income was tax free, then rental charges would not be affected.
Renters? why not just a radical Left party? The rest will follow.
Yes
Don’t get sucked in.
MPs are protected from the devaluation of the NZD by owning real assets.
The NZD number assigned to those real assets has increased but it’s not so much that their wealth has increased – it’s just that the rest of us, without real assets, have had our wealth (wages really) reduced.
I guess you could say the distribution has changed, but the key here is that wealth has not been created.
This is key because it means Neo Liberal economics doesn’t work at all.
It’s not an economic policy so much as legalised theft.
We’re circling the drain and the ruling classes are making sure they’re the last to get sucked in.
If you can put it off for sixty years than you win!
So Council, Panuku doesn’t do Social Housing say Paul Majurey? Gentrification/Regeneration only?
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/paul-majurey-eke-panuku-supports-housing-choice/IDNCBEPK34R67SESMD2OSDBHZY/
An economically left wing socially conservative party would clean up votes. A pro free speech party on the left that rejects the insanity of performative
woke politics and whose representatives are normal every day working class people and economically realist would be great.
Problem is you’d get the same old has beens who always highjack any new party and take over and ruin it. Ie. Matt McCarten, Laila Harre, Minto, Bradford who have all been rejected by the electorate over and over and over again.
Itd have to be complete unknowns and young people specifically based off getting regular people into parliament not old has beens and the old has beens would have to be barred from joining the party or from party events.
No one has picked up the mantle of Jim Anderton. It’s quite sad.
But a new vehicle with all the old people in it is doomed to fail like all the other failed attempts those same were involved in.
We need more factory workers,builders, network engineers, doctors, beneficiaries, renters and check out workers in politics and far far less lawyers, activists, professional protesters, teachers bankers and civil servants.