MEDIAWATCH: Rotorua’s Golden Mile obscenity becoming Labour’s ‘Key’s-kids-in-cars’ political moment.
TVNZs Sunday programme, a current affairs magazine styled show that barely ever causes any stir has burst into fourth estate life with the arrival of John Campbell.
His super power to lift all journalists near him seems to have inspired a blistering appraisal of the Government’s horrendous homeless into motel program along Rotorua’s famous ‘golden mile’.
The policy started by Key as a response to people living in cars has cost a bewildering $1.2billion to date and was always offered up as better solution than people living on the street.
That defence of ‘it’s better than being homeless’ has run out of road by the TVNZ Sunday expose.
This is an important tipping point for Labour and they seem oblivious to it.
You can tell when the Government are oblivious to a political danger when Megan Woods is still talking.
The Managerial Professional Class that our self serving Public Service have mutated into like to manage contract KPIs, they don’t actually do much themselves, so the management of these vulnerable high need families is subcontracted out to the cheapest local provider with the barest of oversight and resourcing.
It’s cheaper to keep funding a counter productive short term band aid than seize half the golf courses in each city using the public works act to mass build state houses.
The image of families living in cars shocked NZ and turned them against National.
The image of gross incompetence and clearly failed social policy compounding the misery of those families in cars will turn many against Labour.
And the Greens.
This yawning chasm of need is occurring while Marama is the Minister of Homelessness, this is politically damaging for her and the Party as a whole!
Once ACT start nailing her to this failure, the Greens will start burning off support.
Luckily for Labour, this grotesque failure to invest in State Housing is National’s legacy and so they have no credibility whatsoever on the issue of Housing.
This opens up genuine electoral ground for another Party with solutions.
TOP, NZF and the Māori Party could all benefit if they have a clear path to home ownership.
2023 could be so polarised that it generates a broken MMP full spectrum where National and Labour don’t get higher than early 30s, ACT cannibalises National vote and a group of 5% threshold parties all push through.
Rotorua’s Golden Mile obscenity is quickly becoming Labour’s ‘John-Key’s-kids-in-cars’ political moment.
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For 1.2 billion they could have built 2400 $500K homes already or many more medium density three storey apartments. It’s a fact worth repeating.
Add racecourses to the golf courses
Here in New Plymouth our huge racecourse has just been leased out for $1 a year for 30 years. Our public golf course is on what was originally Maori reserve land. Our settler councils have the envious record of managing to steal 99% of all land in Taranaki that was set aside as Maori reserve. I am not counting the huge swathes of productive farmland confiscated after the land wars just the pathetic small plots set aside.
Similar story for Tauranga racecourse / golf. Council took submissions this year whether to repurpose all or part of it including for housing. I was shocked to read it was Maori who rejected housing in favor of continued green / recreational spaces, so there went that opportunity. To be fair, most other submissions rejected housing as well. I just don’t get it
+100%
“The Managerial Professional Class that our self serving Public Service have mutated into like to manage contract KPIs, they don’t actually do much themselves, so the management of these vulnerable high need families is subcontracted out to the cheapest local provider with the barest of oversight and resourcing.”
“This yawning chasm of need is occurring while Marama is the Minister of Homelessness, this is politically damaging for her and the Party as a whole!”
The reality of what we had before was a lot better than getting the corporates in to manage rental housing – because then it becomes about profitability and creating monopolies – that the left seem to be getting excited by.
Lefties are so clueless and with so little critical thinking, they are now cheerleaders with the right wingers and woke on more subsidies to construction & social bond companies, more cheap, migrant, unskilled, illegal labour for construction, remove democracy from councils and planning, remove environment and quality in housing, make sure that the middle and working class can only save into corporate owned retirement plans which become worthless with the next financial crisis.
Give to a corporate, not a worker!
M Davidson a true microGreen like the rest of them.
Absolutely correct in saying National won’t win from this, as every knows they give less fucks than Labour!
And yes, we are screaming out for a party who genuinely wants to fix housing. They will boost past 10% easily if they are convincing, a Housing First Party!
There absolutely needs to be a new political party that is not dripping in woke bullsh*t or for that matter self-serving arseholes happy to sell the country down the river for ‘contributions’ from the local PRC mole . . a political party for all NZ’ers that is completely focused on improving the lives for all NZ’ers and addressing the real and clear issues that this country is facing.
Won’t happen.
If you haven’t seen the Sunday program on Rotorua, here’s a link. Martyn is right, it is an obscenity:
https://youtu.be/dHtQ8ZN55l4
If Key didn’t sell off the social housing in the BOP and built at least the same number in their 9 years, Rotorua (& NZ) wouldn’t have the problem they have now. Key also sold off surplus crown land including Teachers, NZR, State, Electricity, Police, Govt houses to property developers and those properties would also have come in handy.
I suggest that iwi/hapu/whanau, where possible make their papakainga or other lands available to build social housing to house their whanau – especially the ones in the Rotorua (and other) motels and the homeless. Get them out of the cities and back to the land to grow their own veges, etc.