They have the power to delay, obfuscate and generally condemn to a Kafkaesque purgatory any half-way decent notion. They look after the aspirational, the wannabe middle class, the SMEs, not the renters or mundane rate payers.

Disbelief? Look at Auckland’s ‘governance’. Those semi-tropicals have been wrecking development and coherence since Dove-Myer Robinson. (Why do you think we’re still trying to get them a half-way decent rail system?)

Any city council worth its morning tea biscuits can waffle and gag on any piece of ‘Wellington legislation’ until the poor thing is nothing but a dim memory.

Go for the local and regional councils and councillors and the well-cushioned bureaucrats. National pollies usually have a MUCH shorter life span (unless you’re Lindsay Tisch).

Fantastic FOLKS YOU ARE TRUE PATRIOTS OF OUR SOCIETY.

We are living in a National Party dream where they keep brainwashing us all with our own publically funded media, while prevent us from giving these views of our human tragedy unfolding before our eyes.

Please keep up your campaign and try and present a feature on our only truly free balanced TV media public affairs show WAATEA 5th Estate show with Willie and Martyn.

All these efforts only seem like solutions because they temporarily fix a visible symptom of homelessness capitalism.

FTFY

The system we have generates poverty in the midst of plenty – exactly as it’s designed to do.

It’s about making sure that a path to an independent and fulfilling life is available to all, with some safety nets along the way if needed.

That will keep the same failed system in place.

What is sad is that NZ used to have such low levels of homelessness. Now this government has increased homelessness when we had a chance to have eradicated it completely. We have a small population – everyone should have a home to live in!

Yep there needs to be long term solution. The government seems to have plenty of resources for TPP which nobody wants including US politicians who want to be elected, but no long term interest in domestic problems which our taxes are meant to be spent on.