Green Party Launches Open Letter To PM On Renters’ Rights
The Greens have launched an open letter calling on the Prime Minister to respond to the rental crisis.
“Housing is a human right and should not be treated as a commodity to be gambled on,” says Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick.
“Over the past month, we have been running a campaign to put real people’s stories to the statistics that tell us the one and a half million renters in this country spend disproportionately more of their income to live in older, colder, mouldier properties than those who own.
“Today we’re launching an open letter to the Prime Minister, himself the owner of seven properties, calling on his Government to take some of that personal responsibility he likes to talk about, to improve the lives and conditions of renters.
“We’re asking New Zealanders to make this impossible to ignore. Sign our open letter to the Prime Minister, then ask ten friends to do the same, then ask them to ask ten friends,” says Chlöe Swarbrick.
Open Letter: The Renters Letter 2024 – action.greens.org.nz
You want warm dry homes, yet, once again, you don’t have any proposals responding to the high cost of power.
You want to limit rent increases, yet, once again, you don’t have any proposals responding to the drivers behind rent increases.
Evidently, you have far more work to do on these points.
Why present this letter to the public when clearly it’s unfinished? It makes you look incompetent.
If you want to unite voters on a just cause, you’ll get far more support uniting voters over the high cost of power.
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Speaking of people having to spend disproportionately more of their income on rents. You do know that the accommodation supplement (which helps more than 365,000 households pay their rent, mortgage or board hasn’t been increased for 6 years? Over which, rents have soared.
What are you doing to correct that?