HOMELESS STILL HELPLESS AFTER BUDGET – MANA Party
“15% of the population, 1% of the budget – that won’t change a bloody thing for Maori” said MANA Leader Hone Harawira “That’s less than the 3% on the dollar iwi get in a treaty settlement, and that was a rip off!”
“Mind you it’s what we got from Labour so nothing’s changed in the last 20 years” said Harawira.
“And National adding a few bucks to the accommodation settlement won’t do nothing to fix the housing crisis because all that money goes directly to landlords or motel owners. The accommodation supplement goes DIRECTLY to National Party voters.
“And I hear Labour moaning about National’s budget, but they were the crowd who started the sell-off of state houses and the eviction of poor people. Labour’s housing policy is just a pink version of National’s so no gain there either.
What we need is a comprehensive housing policy – like MANA’s. Stop foreigners from buying existing houses – 10,000 houses available to buy. Force speculators to sell houses – another 10,000 available to buy. 20,000 houses on the market – BOOM – housing prices drop through the floor, and first home buyers are in. Then government can concentrate on building houses for people who need them.
“This stuff isn’t rocket science. All it means is putting people before profit and the answer is easy”
Stop foreigners buying any property existing or new. Allowing them to buy new is sucking up land and precious resources and the properties are likely to be left vacant.
Enough of the half arsed solutions that just create another set of problems.
Give us something worth voting for Hone.
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Well the budget has come and gone, and like all the Nats budgets and Labours for nine years before that those in real need have to wait a year to gain any of the small benefits it contains, the top 10% get 40% of the benefits [tax cuts] while the bottom 10% get two % of the benefits…strange as it may sound but the bottom 1% get nothing, that’s not entirely true… some get 1 dollar per week. You can’t buy much with an extra dollar…come to think of it what can you buy with one dollar these days?
Hone’s comment if followed through would mean seeing a drastic change in NZ’s direction , a change we sorely need.
Housing has become a for profit commodity for overseas investors to extract capital from NZ.
We do not need capital extracted, if fact it is the last thing we need.
It is bad enough that so many of our local industries have been taken over by International investors or undermined and gutted by consequences of successive Govts removing impediments for foreign money or foreign controlled money from running the show.
With housing and farms the overseas bankers have made in excess of $200 billion in the past decade.
We need a Govt that fosters and protects NZ interests and that includes how finance is available for local genuine local enterprises increasing NZ’s resilience and self reliance.
Hone is a leading voice in a wilderness of compliance to the Investor state driving a diminishing environmental and social fabric.