Shhhhh.
NZ Poverty is now utterly ignored…
Droves of working poor living in cars due to housing shortage in Northland
Working families who can’t afford to pay rent even on two incomes are increasingly among those forced to live in tents and cars, Northland housing advocates say.
Monika Welch, who provides food for struggling families, said it was mainly solo mums who needed help when she started her charity Finkk (‘Families in Need Kerikeri’) just over 10 years ago.
Now most of those who came to her for help were families with both parents working full-time – yet they still couldn’t afford a roof over their heads.
Welch said finding work in Northland wasn’t the problem.
“There’s plenty of jobs out there, but whatever you earn it’s peanuts compared to your rent.
“What is left after you pay your $650? Virtually nothing. And as soon as you get behind in your rent, it’s all over.”
With many families only just making ends meet, one unexpected bill was all it took to put them on the street, Welch said.
“It only takes one thing to go wrong – the car breaks down, or the washing machine or fridge. Then it’s just a plummet into a huge hole.”
…it was beneficiaries and the homeless living in cars, it’s now workers.
Shhhhh.
NZ Poverty is now utterly ignored…
MSD report reveals severe child poverty; CCC urges government action
The Ministry of Social Development has released a report on child poverty in Aotearoa which showed Māori, Pacific and disabled children are disproportionately affected by child poverty.
A total of 144,000 children are living in homes where families cannot afford at least six of 17 essential items. Those items include fresh vegetables and fruit, a separate bed, a waterproof coat, warm clothes, shoes and doctor’s visits.
…MSD produced a bullshit report that gave barely any stats but just argued how they got the stats….
…it is an academic wank useful to no bugger, and that’s the point.
The State suppresses the true poverty rate in this country in a hope to depoliticise it so they don’t have to be held accountable.
NZ Labour Party are FINALLY picking up their social media game. @nzlabour
But I still dont have a copy of Chris Hipkins speech from the NZ Local Government conference which is incredibly disappointing. pic.twitter.com/sRXIhTAHSJ
— Spider Hoof (@spider_hoof) September 1, 2024
It’s no better for the over 65s. See here https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/526857/crunching-the-numbers-over-65s-spending-almost-all-of-pension-on-sky-high-rent
I thought National looked after the working poor and the retired. Shame they don’t have tobacco shares.
What I dont understand is how power companies can charge 600% more for the water ,wind and sun they get for free.Those are a fixed cost in anyones business language I would have thought .However Luxon may have deal with the good lord where by he can increase the price of the free stuff and get into heaven for free .I would doubt the good lord will be veiwing Luxon as any sort of christian and deserving entry to heaven he is not .But that is just a front he can use to rip off the 90% and get to worship more money in his stash .
I thought Christopher 7 Pads Luxon was some sort of financial wizard come International Businessman Rock Star in the vein of Sir John Key, not looking to good so far in this NACTACTNZF Goverment ???
We have a coalition of chaos government that in 10 short months has derailed our once great country.
How are other countries doing? Western ones all seem to suffer the same fate and the trend has been obvious for yonks. Is this a craze or rage or mania? Which? It is not fated or inevitable, so can we revert to using our brains and make change. Have we no primitive survival mode left?
Drivers of housing (un)affordability in the advanced …
Taylor & Francis Online
https://www.tandfonline.com › … Whakamāoritia tēnei whārangi
26 Hep 2022 — Housing affordability has been decreasing worldwide, particularly in the advanced economies, in recent decades.
…The ratio of median house sales prices to median household incomes has increased significantly since 1990 in countries like Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States…
Hong Kong was crowned the most unaffordable market in the world, followed by Sydney, Australia then Vancouver. A total of 11 markets, including Vancouver, were deemed “impossibly unaffordable,” meaning median house prices are more than nine times the median household income.17 Hun 2024
‘Impossibly unaffordable’: Housing report ranks Vancouver 3rd most …
Global News
https://globalnews.ca › news › impossibly-unaffordable-…
(Note western countries here in the stupidly unaffordable but who cares bracket.)
The housing theory of everything
Works in Progress
https://worksinprogress.co › … Whakamāoritia tēnei whārangi
14 Hep 2021 — Western housing shortages do not just prevent many from ever affording their own home. They also drive inequality, climate change, low …
Fix Europe’s housing crisis or risk fuelling the far-right, UN …
The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com › … Whakamāoritia tēnei whārangi
6 Mei 2024 — Unaffordable rents and property prices risk becoming a key political battleground across the continent.
Australia – Demographia International Housing Affordability
Demographia
http://www.demographia.com › dhi PDF
Housing affordability measures necessarily relate the costs of housing to income. Demographia uses the median multiple, a price-to-income ratio that divides the.
This Is Public Housing. Just Don’t Call It That.
The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com › … Whakamāoritia tēnei whārangi
25 Āku 2023 — Putting affordable and family-friendly housing inside luxury projects is the sort of cake-and-eat-it story that developers and politicians love …
This is going on in Nelson but you can’t see Stuff on the internet – this is a taster to show how living conditions improved over a century have to be fought to be retained, with the official argument put forward that results provide a greater good. The changes are based on say one sentence the citizens have agreed to by a preference for building up rather than spreading onto potential farmland and requiring extensive and costly extra services.
City’s housing plan under scrutiny
Stuff
https://www.stuff.co.nz › … Whakamāoritia tēnei whārangi
25 Āku 2024 — Nelson’s controversial intensification plan could improve housing affordability compared to the status quo, experts have told a hearing panel …
“What’s left after you pay your $650?”
HUH? For two working adults per Northland family, as per the story? That’d leave about a grand, less tax, per pay period. Can see the problem right there… just like they rounded up the Comancheros, next they need to round up Northland employers who are paying approximately half the legal minimum wage. Law ‘n’ Ordah, and all that crap.
Of course, no one is so stupid. What it means is these people survive on casual/seasonal work. Ah yes, casual work, that new economic messiah, saving NZ from prosperity since 1985. Accountants everywhere losing sleep over the tense phone calls about how, this time, it really is getting very difficult to prove it wasn’t done with intent. Must be awful.
On the upside those Northland people must be very smart and (brace yourself..) “resilient” folks, demonstrating god-tier budgeting skill like that, if grossly under resourced. Can’t hardly drink that much booze and still be commercially viable in rural activities, or anything else, so good impulse control too. That sort of self discipline in the face of the impossible means very unlikely to be engaged in criminal activities. Shit, the whole racist/deserving/undeserving crap just keeps falling apart. This isn’t really poverty, or “not doing enough”, it’s a matter of not having enough cash because you keep getting robbed blind.
Robber baron feudalism, upheld by the most toxic bourgeois socialism NZ has seen. But that’s another story…
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