480 families living in cars in 2023 compared to 102 in 2017

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Martyn Bradbury
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Question 2 – Chris Bishop to the Associate Minister for Social Development and Employment from New Zealand Parliament on Vimeo.

Shocking figures revealed yesterday when Labour admitted there are now 480 families living in cars compared to 102 when they entered Government in 2017.

Part of that is that we now count families in cars and are more proactive in attempting to reach out to them, part of it is the post Covid poverty that has been generated, part of it is a reluctance to engage with the punitive MSD and Housing NZ and every other State agency that wants to kettle them into dangerous motels, but most of it is because Labour are fucking feckless and still addicted to the neoliberal economic stratightjacket and while willing to blow a Billion on pushing these desperate people into Motels, won’t do a fucking thing about mass building our State Housing stock funded by wealth taxes.

We need more than Labour’s neokindness, we need actual Left wing universalism.

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59 COMMENTS

  1. Dont worry, the commentors on here are fine with homelessness, because it means that their rents are kept high.

    National will probably make it worse, because they belive that having people sleeping in the streets is a crucial part of prosperity.

    • “National will probably make it worse”.. There’s no “probably” about it. One only has to read the policy statements/manifestos of both parties in any nat/act govt to know that a pressured and desperate underclass is a necessary propaganda tool, that was used to great effect by the now patron of neocolonialism in the 21st century, John Key… Same donkey, same cart, but now the apprentices get to drive it..

  3. Disgusting and getting worse – more high needs are arriving into NZ who will need state care from housing, health, social services and education, more money is being put into state care and welfare, and the money seems to be diverted to woke pockets by those who seem to be profiting from the woke agenda!

    Meng Foon as a director, 2 million from emergency housing etc. $60 million to homelessness with Marama at the helm, that they didn’t spend on homelessness etc!

    Crazy how many empty government houses there are and un renovated to healthy homes standards, that they should have renovated or used the land for housing, but blown the money instead and now paying eye watering rates for Bourgeoisie aimed housing new housing from developers at $600,000+! They also don’t seem to last long with arson, floods etc.

    So easy to be a lazy consultant at the plethora of government funded housing groups. I hear the Kainga ora CEO is the 2nd highest paid government position in NZ! Not on results, clearly!! They are spending a fortune and making it worse.

    Half of Kฤinga Ora homes still not up to healthy homes standard
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/129225899/half-of-kinga-ora-homes-still-not-up-to-healthy-homes-standard

    Government faces 60-year debt blowout after building costs explode
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/government-faces-60-year-debt-blowout-after-building-costs-explode/R7L54GYHNIEJD3Z6TQDFOYRJMI/

    Kฤinga Ora spends $1b buying state homes in five years
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/kainga-ora-spends-1b-buying-state-homes-in-five-years/2AOGBWVRXTBFA4KP6VYX45Z65Q/

    Shy of housing targets, but Kฤinga Ora still paying top dollar
    https://businessdesk.co.nz/article/property/shy-of-housing-targets-but-kainga-ora-still-paying-top-dollar

    “The group headed to an abandoned state house in Mฤngereโ€™s Buckland Rd, where they used the open bathroom window to get inside.”
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300929318/murder-accused-initially-told-police-they-were-looking-at-a-suicide

    Not sure that ‘giving away’ state house land in the ‘catchy’ Kiwibuild, and then buying expensive new housing to replace them at $600,000+ a house seems to be working out very well! (especially when they buy and build on flood plains with dodgy engineering/building https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2023/01/auckland-flooding-several-k-inga-ora-houses-lifted-off-their-foundations.html)

    Kiwibuild was always Thatcherism. Likewise attacking private landlords and driving them out to increase profits to business like emergency housing and developers, while still not being able to get 50% of state housing up to their woke standards and thus pushing people into much worse emergency housing and reducing the options of private rentals.

    Those in housing in government should all resign, they are not just hopeless, but dangerous both in terms of making people live in squalor, ignoring unemployed that should be working instead importing in impoverished families, while locals are allowed to sit around doing nothing, ignoring kids living in squalor and danger from violence and drugs, and creating a mountain of debt from housing, for worse results.

    Do not agree with encouraging immigration to bring in more and more dependants on low wages or ‘student’ visas https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-12/foreigners-are-flocking-to-new-zealand-immigration-data-show#xj4y7vzkg when they will enviably need social housing and continued support, while ignoring supporting and training NZer’s already in NZ who don’t seem to be getting much help, is not working.

    Both political parties seem to want to continue the destruction and worsen NZ in practically every statistic for poverty and housing.

    • Private landlords are the reason we have so much homelessness in this country. They a) charge high rents, and b) kick tenants out when they feel like it.

      You are fucking cucked, its beyond any rational belief.

    • Not terribly.. but I definitely do not want the NACT alternative Govt. It will do far more harm.

  6. If David Shearer had been kept on there would have been 100,000 State Houses built rather than only 12,000. Maybe?

    When New Zealand was a poorer country the Savage State Housing regime could build 10,000 state houses per year. Does any political party now, left or right, have the competence, the nous, the care and the will to achieve a solution to the housing crisis?

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/1937-michael-joseph-savage-something-for-everyone/3DJJQIMMREFJHYLB7I23FNSS2M/

    • During Savages terms in parliament, we has a Ministry of Works which was dedicated to building homes. Now we are reliant on private enterprise, which suggests that neither left or right have the the competence, the nous, the care or the will to do fuck all.

      That been said, Megan Woods has been our best housing Housing minister in about thirty years. With 3500 residences completed and another 7000 either under construction, or rubber stamped to go ahead, she has achieved more than the last two governments combined. Probably the reason why National and ACT have been really quiet about housing over the last 6 months.

  7. UK women MPs – Margaret Thatcher we remember, but do we do so about Barbara Castle? She was outstanding. Blair got in though and antony g brought forward his 3rd way.

    https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/tradeindustry/industrycommunity/collections/equal-pay/barbara-castle/
    Barbara Castle (1910-2002) was MP for Blackburn 1945-1979, and one of the most important Labour politicians of her era…(34 years)

    Barbara Castle (1910-2002) was MP for Blackburn 1945-1979, and one of the most important Labour politicians of her era. She held various Cabinet positions during the 1960s, including Minister for Overseas Development and Minister of Transport. In 1968 while the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity, she intervened on behalf of the women sewing machinists on strike at the Ford Dagenham motor plant. As a result, she went on to successfully bring in the Equal Pay Act 1970. She went on to become Secretary of State for Health and Social Services, a Member of the European Parliament, and in 1990 became a life peer as Baroness Castle of Blackburn.

  8. If National want to get anywhere they need to announce a state housing program that is costed and charted. Not a reactionary 100K home Phil Twyford style.

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