Comments on: If only we cared about hungry children and homelessness the way we do about Property Investors pain

By: saveNZ

saveNZ — Sat, 27 Mar 2021 20:28:22 +0000

In reply to Trevor.

NZ sold off our forests and got rid of our sawmills and our experienced labour for those sawmills and now prioritise selling and processing everything overseas.

Foreign forestry companies NZ’s biggest landowners
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/agribusiness/116369097/foreign-forestry-companies-nzs-biggest-landowners

By: Trevor

Trevor — Sat, 27 Mar 2021 06:03:18 +0000

Now in a land that once boasted the largest man made forest in the world we are short of timber. We have stopped mining coal which will cutback the steel mills production but never mind the Times will run a story of how green we are and all will be well

By: Z

Fri, 26 Mar 2021 20:42:09 +0000

In reply to covid is pa. There is a supply chain shortage coming that no amount of government money can fix.

By: Tom Gardner

Tom Gardner — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 00:48:07 +0000

Rent freeze, please

By: Afewknowthetruth

Afewknowthetruth — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 21:49:04 +0000

‘Property speculators are just like Casinos, booze barons and tobacco pimps – they are all necessary evils who require the jackboot of State regulation constantly applied to their throats to keep them in line.’

I disagree, Martyn. I think they are UNNECESSARY evils. And they are products of a sick culture.

By: saveNZ

saveNZ — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 20:45:27 +0000

In reply to covid is pa.

What is the difference between state house NZ hiring the tradies and private business hiring the tradies, nothing! They both have the same issues with quality, but one is motivated to build affordable houses and one is motivated to make the most profits they can. Which is the better motivation to solve the housing crisis?

As seen by Kiwibuild vs Housing NZ, I believe housing NZ managed to build more houses or a similar amount to Kiwibuild, with lower rents and they stayed in public ownership with Housing NZ, win, win!

Housing NZ also traditionally made profits that they returned to the crown. If they wanted to upgrade the housing NZ houses then they could have just forgone the profits.

By: covid is pa

covid is pa — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 20:30:47 +0000

Housing NZ still needs to have enough builders and other tradies. I don’t think it is that straight forward. In the Hutt Valley lots of state land is yet to be built on.

By: Yeti

Yeti — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 19:48:42 +0000

In reply to Trevor. There’s a certain irony in your comment - the latest moves have made it much harder for investors to make rental properties available yet you also acknowledge that the state isn’t making them available despite the fact that privately held businesses are quite successful at doing so.

By: saveNZ

saveNZ — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 19:42:00 +0000

A very simple solution would have been for the government to give housing NZ the 3 billion to build state houses for NZ’s poor instead of the private developers…. I can’t hear any peeps from the lefties advocating for this easy solution though.

By: saveNZ

saveNZ — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 19:39:30 +0000

The screams of anguish from the Property Speculators continue to fill our news headlines…. lucky our government is not interested in stopping overseas investors investing in new builds (sarc) …. from what I can work out, if you can afford to buy a new build you are sweet, no 10 year bright line test on capital gain and if you are from Singapore or OZ no restrictions on buying as a foreign investor, or you can invest through a NZ property fund, and once you get NZ citizenship you can buy as much property as you like and don’t have to live in NZ. Permanent residents need to live in NZ for 1 year.