We know the rapacious Developers fucked us by building on Auckland’s floodplains.
We know lazy City Bureaucrats allowed those rapacious Developers to build on Auckland’s floodplains.
We know the greedy Landlords will fuck tenants any chance they get and raise rentals.
With so many houses destroyed, Landlords will use the desperation to raise rents.
It’s time Labour actually stood up and protected Auckland renters and declare a Rent Freeze for the rest of 2023 to protect the most vulnerable Aucklanders!
This city has been repeatedly betrayed and let down by the greed of others, it’s time someone stood up to them.
Labour, this is your moment to shine.
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Rent Freeze and Rent Control now!
A Political activist campaign could take it further too–start occupying empty residential and commercial property on an organised basis to make the point to the Labour Caucus that they need to run a state house/apartment mega build, tiny house precincts for homeless, emergency housing in every town.
“We know lazy City Bureaucrats allowed those rapacious Developers to build on Auckland’s floodplains.”
I think they were forced into this position by the constant scream of housing crisis, we need more land.
Rent freeze nationwide!
Rates and insurance will need to go up these need to be past on otherwise the whole process is uneconomical. Usually rental properties do not make much income with rent covering costs .The income is on the capital gain .and tax rebates. Labour has taken one of these away and the other is not happening and will not be for awhile . Landlords are hated by the left but needed by all due to poor building rate of state houses. The only way to bring rents down is to have surplus State houses tpso renters have a choice .
Come on Trev there are some landlords that own crap loads of houses. That doesn’t help either. As fast as they build them some of these guys can by them.
You have also hit on the need for a CGT. Even under the existing/old rules you should have paid tax on the gain if that was the primary intention was it not? All this bullshit about trying to provide a service to people
With the problems you mentioned it should be that property values reduce so rents should be cheaper. Obviously this will be location specific but if landlords were rational you would expect that rents will be increasing or reduced over the city, if they only increase then it shows that landlords are just greedy.
The problem with rent control is that you will end up reducing investment, therefore reducing supply — obviously a disaster when there are already shortages.
There should be a campaign, but the demand should be ‘Reverse state house selloffs’, ‘Clear the slums’, and ‘Mass housing projects now!’
Something like Mick Lynch’s ‘Enough is Enough’ labour movement campaign would be most effective at this time. There are too many simultaneous attacks on working people for each issue to have its own separate campaign.
[The problem with rent control is that you will end up reducing investment, therefore reducing supply — obviously a disaster when there are already shortages.]
Nearly all rentals have been “supplied” through the purchase of pre-existing properties. A reduction in the supply of rentals will therefore mean that more houses will be available for own-your-owners; in which there will be less need for rentals.
“President of the Auckland Property Investors Association Kristin Sutherland said the rent hikes [in Auckland] were not landlords using the last week’s severe flooding events to make more profit, but simply market forces at work.” – RNZ
It’s funny how those market forces look so much like the actions of self-serving social parasites when you’re not one of those c nts yourself.
Her comments come as
Landlords are a business not part of the social welfare system that is the states job
True. Accommodation supplements should be abolished since they only line the pockets of landlords.
“President of the Auckland Property Investors Association Kristin Sutherland said the rent hikes [in Auckland] were not landlords using the last week’s severe flooding events to make more profit, but simply market forces at work.” – RNZ
It’s funny how those market forces look so much like the actions of self-serving social parasites when you’re not one of those c nts yourself.
So being a landlord means you are part of the social services .Are you suggesting all tradesmen hold their prices to per flood level and suppliers of all types of goods still give discounts to make a sale . All these people are in business to make money if you want another system try living in Russia .
Who employs a tradesman every week Trevor, that’s a woeful comparison. Let’s face it there will be landlords that escalate the rental prices in properties that were not damaged. They were “making money” before the flooding and will continue to do so. That stupid property association head was making out like “the market” was some mythical entity that made landlords increase price’s against their own will….’the market made me do it. I am not really a wanker’
Yes correct. Hammer the greedy landlords is a vote winner also.
In Switzerland they have a highly regulated rental market, because most peeps rent. The same should apply here. Fixed low prices, regular maintenance occuring.
The following quote is a load of self serving bullshit, from someone who has a vested interest on behalf of landlords and housing speculators.
President of the Auckland Property Investors Association, Kristin Sutherland; “…we will have a shortage of supply of rentals for a period of time just while these repairs are undertaken. And I think it just needs understanding from landlords and from tenants that that will be the case and we may see some increased rent for that period of time.”
What an arsehole. Kristin Sutherland is a liar. There is no real shortage of houses, and therefore zero excuse to raise rents.
Other than the artificially created housing shortage, there is no shortage of housing in this country.
The market has failed:
200k empty ‘ghost’ houses: Why and what would get them into the market?
Daniel Dunkley, Mar 01 2020
…..Empty homes are a divisive issue. A tax has been suggested as one way of encouraging landlords to fill properties and increase the circulation of rentals. Some believe people who hoard properties should be penalised. Others think landlords should do what they want in a free-market economy….
…..Vancouver, Canada, is one such trailblazer. Legislators in the city have forced landlords to rent out their property or pay a 1 per cent tax based on the home’s assessed value.
The levy, introduced in 2017, collected $39.4 million from 1989 empty properties in 2018. Vancouver reinvests the cash into affordable housing initiatives and recently voted to raise the tax to 1.25 per cent….
…..Across the globe, other major cities are warming to the idea. London Mayor Sadiq Khan supports an increase in rates for empty homes. The London Mayor’s office called the city’s 25,000 empty homes a “needless waste and injustice”. A recent study from University College London claimed an empty homes tax might be more effective in creating affordable housing than constructing new builds…..
https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/119636091/200k-empty-ghost-houses-why-and-what-would-get-them-into-the-market
……an empty homes tax might be more effective in creating affordable housing than constructing new builds…..
The market has failed. The housing market needs Central and Local government regulation.
“….Empty homes are a divisive issue”
Which way will the government go on housing?
Hands off laissez-faire, let the market rip neo-liberalism?
Or, government regulation?
The Hipkins administration will be defined by this decision, (or indecision).
Always interesting.
But don’t forget it’s the tenants who set the rents. The double up, get flatmates or even move to get what they want. The house/flat owner is stuck in position and has to cope with ever increasing rates and today, for a change, increasing interest rates!
I thought there was a shortage of rentals in Auckland, a rent freeze is known to reduce the number of properties available for rent (think France in the 1930’s or even San Fransisco and Los Angeles today)
And yes, if these are known flood plains, we are left wondering why we have to pay for all the building consents and inspections, if they effectively mean nothing but a gravy train for govt office wallies with no responsibilities…
Or even better, the government could seize all housing and building property in Aotearoa, like Mao did in 1946,
And allocate it to the needy for free.
No rent at all!
Labour and Green Party members would need good housing right away because party members help look after the farmers.
To help low income New Zealanders through the hardship caused by the covid pandemic, the Adern administration imposed a rent freeze.
Stopping the flow of profits to the rentier class, proved to be Prime Minister Ardern’s biggest crime.
The response was a vicious and immediate. A well funded far right hate campaign to drive her from office.
Is Chris Hipkins ready to face down a similar far right hate campaign?
I would like to be proved wrong, but I don’t think so.
Unlike the Adern administration, the Hipkins administration will not agree to a rent freeze to help Aucklanders through this crisis.
Chippy,am a arougant fuck, who the fuck you say.
Ah, another google translate haiku from goneby100. We really need to start collecting these and have them published.
So being a landlord means you are part of the social services .Are you suggesting all tradesmen hold their prices to per flood level and suppliers of all types of goods still give discounts to make a sale . All these people are in business to make money if you want another system try living in Russia .
As much as I would like to be able to say otherwise, I do not think that a rent freeze is a viable option at this point in time. The government does need as much revenue as it can get, and property owners are investors who do deserve a return on their money and also a certain amount of time to transition out of their investment if the government does decide to freeze rent prices. Moreover, it is unlikely that a rent freeze would mean that prices remain completely stagnant. Rather, investors wouldn’t be able to raise rents above a certain threshold (which they cannot do now, anyway) and rents wouldn’t be able to be raised exponentially after tenants vacate a property. That would be about it.
Additionally, there would be lots of lost revenue for the New Zealand government as buildings and chattels would retain their depreciable status, with losses up to certain amounts being able to be carried over to future years. This would mean that we, as a country, would potentially be worse off in future years and any recession would likely be deeper, financially scarring homeowners, investors and tenants alike. The only winners in the equation would be speculators.
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Be very careful what you wish for. Scotland paying dearly for well intentioned policies along similar lines.
https://www.property118.com/glasgow-a-warning-to-all-landlords-in-the-uk/
The reason so many lobby government for cheap workers to come into NZ!
Local Focus: Inside RSE worker accommodation, where four bedrooms can earn landlords $3500 a week
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/local-focus-inside-rse-worker-accommodation-where-four-bedrooms-can-earn-landlords-3500-a-week/WNCJNH4CJVB55BEZNFPP6MTCAE/
Seems to be a gold mine where local tenancy standards are ignored and the government slyly pretends to care but knows that the real reason that horticulture can’t get pickers is that the pay and accomodation are not acceptable for full time, temporary work.
Apparently the same thing happens in France. Farmers now only use migrant labour because the local labour laws are so different from the migrant laws that it makes things worse for everybody. Local people can’t get agricultural work as France has a 30 hour week + overtime French Labour rules so are discriminated against for manual jobs, while government turns a blind eye to all the illegal/semi legal migrant workers who are allowed to be outside the labour rules system. In Italy a lot of the agricultural labour is Marfia and gang related. The entire EU seems to be uninterested in stopping this. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/20/tomatoes-italy-mafia-migrant-labour-modern-slavery
Local Focus: Inside RSE worker accommodation, where four bedrooms can earn landlords $3500 a week
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/local-focus-inside-rse-worker-accommodation-where-four-bedrooms-can-earn-landlords-3500-a-week/WNCJNH4CJVB55BEZNFPP6MTCAE/
Now we have three different rental rules in NZ – the RSE worker accomodation seems exempt from the healthy homes just like the emergency accomodation. Not sure why RSE and emergency accomodation should be outside the rules, just blatant government discrimination and a wink, wink, to allow certain businesses to make a fortune that nobody wants to investigate or make parity with healthy homes.
“Local Focus contacted the lodge owner, Team Work’s director Jas Singh, who declined to comment, noting that his accommodation had been approved by a labour inspector.”
Needs to be one labour rule in NZ and only one accomodation rule in NZ NOT allowing a growing divide between an impracticable standard for the woke renters while secretly creating a 3rd world, alternative rental situation rubber stamped by government for migrants and poor.
NZ emergency accomodation is already in complaints to the UN – looks like RSE should be too! (Then find out how many ‘deductions’ the third parties are allowed to make which the government turns a blind eye too, while virtue signalling how they are helping the poorer countries!) NOPE!
Meanwhile more unemployment and skills lost in NZ (and other parts of the world) in this sector as locals are effectively removed from being applicants as they are not the preferred workers when third world/illegal workers can be flown/sailed in with much lower standards allowed.
Rent freeze. Show me some data where it hasn’t caused a rental shortage and other negative unintended consequences. I rent out a house. Rates up 10%, insurance up 25%, interest through the roof + all other costs. My tennants are are filthy, smoke inside, disable firealarms and generally disrespect the place. I’m giving up on the rental game, so I guess my tennants will go on to labour’s ever increasing social housing waiting list. There, one less evil landlord. Are you happy?
Yes indeed. Very happy. I guess you will be too, once you have unloaded your unviable business, which you should never have entered into in the first place.
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