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.
Unemployment sharply escalates in New Zealand
John Braddock
30 August 2024
Figures released in August showed 33,000 more New Zealanders are unemployed compared to the same time last year. Total unemployment at the end of June stood at 143,000, the highest since March 2021.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/08/31/tkaq-a31.html
The economic crisis is exacerbated by an electricity shortage and soaring prices. Winstone Pulp International declared recently that it can no longer afford the energy bill for its Karioi Pulpmill and Tangiwai Sawmill. The closures scheduled for mid-September will make 230 workers redundant in the rural Ruapehu district where there are few other job options. Dozens more contractors who depend on the mills will also be driven out of work, and nearby towns such as Raetihi, Ohakune and Waiouru face further depopulation.
Another paper milling company, Oji Fibre Solutions in Penrose, has also threatened to close, which would result in 75 job cuts.
The four semi-privatised energy companies—Meridian, Mercury, Genesis and Contact (fully privatised in 1999)—meanwhile made a combined Combined, the top four gentailers – that’s Meridian, Contact, Genesis and Mercury – made a whopping $2.7 billion in operating profits. That’s around $7.4 million profit every day over the past 12 months. . According to Newsroom, since the privatisations began the companies paid out $10.8 billion in dividends to shareholders, while total generating capacity increased by just one percent.
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 .
AO/NZ’s being sabotaged. It always has been but the riche scum have ramped it up a notch or two or ten.
BTW…? Where’s hipkins? Where’s $288,900.00 P.A. Hipkins?
I know where $484,200.00 P.A. plus perks luxon is but where is $288,900.00 P.A. Hipkins at?
We spend $773,100.00 P.A. on two useless cunts while good people go hungry in a land of meat, milk and vegetables. Is there something wrong with detail or am I imagining things?
How many staff have you been responsible for . How many reports too the board have you drawn up . How many times have you represented the country on a trade deal.
If the answer is no then you have no right to call either of these people useless and not worth their pay it is your judgment that is worthless
Consider yourself canceled Killer white t cell. Trevor being the all conquering overseer of what can and can’t be said.
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 are on track having been derailed for 6 years.
Gosh any actual evidence to back up such an absurd statement?
gee whizz golly gosh bob the fist(ed)
Thanks man with no name your support is appreciated.
On track to becoming a total embarrassment.
Why do we have homeless people?
Why Australia ( New Zealand ) WON’T fix the housing crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dUYrcKlmjg
@bobbobson9024
3 weeks ago
The solution is simple. Move houses away from being a speculative investment and gear it more towards being a roof over people’s head
@GMc-iw2fy
3 weeks ago
Over a decade ago, I went to Singapore and was shown the government built houses. Singaporeans can buy or rent the properties. If a property is bought and then sold you cannot buy another property in this scheme. It stops investors monopolising housing.. The properties were very good. They were very proud of their system of housing, as they should be.
@duncanh6045
3 weeks ago
This is what happens when governments privatise everything, it happened to the banks when Australia sold off Commonwealth Bank of Australia, it happened to all the infrastructure projects and everything else the Gov sold off. Every business becomes about maximising profits its no longer about creating a better place to live for the punters.
@LearnSpanishWorld
2 days ago
I know many people who are choosing to leave Australia, relocating to countries like Thailand, the Philippines, Ecuador, and Chile. It’s disheartening. A friend once told me, “I’m not going to spend the next 30 to 40 years of my life working to pay off a small house, essentially becoming a slave to the bank, when I can easily move to another country and purchase a home for a fraction of the cost.” I believe this situation is driven by greed, and it may eventually backfire. I love this country, and it saddens me to see the direction it’s heading.
We have a coalition of chaos government that in 10 short months has derailed our once great country.
You can buy a nice home in Bangkok for $34,000 !
This central Bangkok property is a rare find, located in a quiet upper-class neighborhood. It has a very peaceful atmosphere, lots of trees with no sound of traffic at all. With easy access to 2 BTS stations, Big C Ekkamai and Healthland, Thonglor is 10 mins by car with many restaurants and malls. Ideally suited for a family with children, it is within 5 mins to St Andrews International school, has a private garden in the front and backyard also suitable for pets.
This 4-storey townhouse comes fully furnished, designed-renovated in a contemporary style with 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms (2 ensuite), water heaters, built in closets, a fully equipped European kitchen, dining room, a tropical balcony on the 2nd floor lounge and 3rd floor bedroom. All rooms are airconditioned with ceiling fans installed.
The entire house has 400 sqm. of livable space with front garden and backyard. Land area is 32.9 sq wah, title deed 1st class Chanote with a covered entrance that can park 2 cars.
https://www.properstar.co.nz/listing/99886053
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 …
I have 4 mental sibs. The one who talks to me is a covid conspiracist who can’t get away from it — a good story beats reality. I just said to the nice but idiotic fellow the only things that matter are climate change and poverty. Poverty was big during the Ardern hoax about that.
“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…