This Government passes landlord laws that hate Renters plus Pet Bonds no one can afford

Pet bonds, no-cause evictions legislation passes

Legislation reinstating 90-day no-cause evictions for renters, and bringing in “pet bonds” has passed its third reading.

The bill amends the Residential Tenancies Act, and makes the following changes:

• Reintroduces 90-day notice ‘no cause’ terminations for periodic tenancies (rental agreements that do not specify an end date)
• Reduces landlords’ notice periods for ending periodic tenancies in specific circumstances from 63 to 42 days
• Reintroduces landlords’ ability to give 21 to 90 days’ notice to end a fixed-term tenancy at the end of its term, without requiring a specific reason
• Brings in “pet bonds”, allowing landlords to charge a higher bond amount if they allow pets, with the potential to retain that bond if the pet caused damage to the home

More power to Landlords to kick you out onto the street while farcical ‘Pet Bonds’ are a joke if you don’t have the money to pay for your own Bond!

Because Class has been replaced by Identity Politics on the Left we don’t have the political oxygen to articulate the class war being waged against Renters right now in this country…

Housing advocates claim Kāinga Ora revamp will increase homelessness

Public housing advocates claim the revamp of Kāinga Ora could lead to an increase in homelessness.

The state housing provider’s board and CEO are being refreshed while the Government comes up with a new focus for the agency.

However there’s concern from the construction industry and those campaigning for more public housing that any building pause during the revamp could increase the state housing waitlist and put tradies out of work.

…Chris Bishop has boasted all year that he’s kicking more state tenants out onto the street, but can’t tell anyone where all the tenants he has just kicked out will now live and if he’s made any children homeless.

How is that anything other than a revenge policy rather than social policy?

Chris Bishop is mutilating public housing for a sprawl of Gotham ghettos...

Last Thursday, Housing Minister Chris Bishop announced radical new plans to deregulate property development in New Zealand. He’s won praise for his efforts from across the political spectrum, including those on the political left and millennials who think Bishop is bravely fighting for the victims of the housing affordability crisis.

However, there are also signs that his deregulation will do little for housing affordability yet produce inferior housing and create all sorts of negative impacts on the urban environment. Instead of deregulating for “moral” reasons of combating housing affordability, it looks like Bishop and his government are simply implementing the demands of the powerful property development industry, especially those that have donated generously to the parties now in power.

…let’s not forget that the Real Estate Pimps are all behind this…

Bishop’s relationship with property developers

It’s no coincidence that the Minister of Housing made his housing deregulation announcements to the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand last week. The property industry’s owners stand to benefit the most from these reforms.

Some have, therefore, suggested that property developers have been lobbying for these reforms. Writing on X, sociologist Peter Davis posted his analysis of Bishop’s programme: “Auckland urban sprawl here we come. With weakening of urban limits, reducing council powers, & removing medium-density, this is just what the developers who donated were looking for. Big capital gains to be made, long commutes, farm land appropriated.”

…the scale of hard right privatisation and the Real Estate Pimps paying for policy should stun and enrage Kiwis because we have voted in a property speculators paradise of urban sprawl and ghettos at our collective expense!

Real Estate Pimps donated millions to National and in return National have reopened tax loopholes and have given landlords the right to kick tenants out for no reason.

There is a class war on renters but we don’t have the political vocabulary to articulate it.

There is an unspoken promise between the neoliberal State and the untaxed capital gains private landlord class that the neoliberal State never builds enough State Houses to alleviate housing desperation so that the untaxed capital gains private landlord class can exploit that housing desperation ON TOP OF getting a $1.5Billion annual subsidy in the form of the Accommodation Allowance EVERY SINGLE YEAR!

The neoliberal State works hand in glove with the interests of the untaxed capital gains private landlord class to constantly keep desperation in the Housing market by never building enough State Houses WHILE handing Taxpayer funded subsidies to the untaxed capital gains private landlord class!

We are not interested in solutions to poverty and inequality, we only believe in making any welfare as difficult and toxic as possible so the poor give up turning to the State in the first place.

We have short changed our own people in terms of housing and safety nets so we can feel superior and smug in the tiny lounge rooms of our lonely bitterness on these shaky isles.

40 years of the Neoliberal Experiment has created deunionised wage pressure which means working people are so poorly paid they look at welfare with envy.

Meanwhile the megalandlords and property speculators laugh all the way to the bank as homeownership continues to fall…

Are we fine with 47.9% home-ownership by 2048?

Deloitte projects 47.9% home-ownership rate in report for Westpac; Why shared ownership can’t fix our housing crises alone;

…this is what we have become, this is the venal selfishness we enjoy.

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