Greens unveil plan to end homelessness and fix housing crisis
The Green Party housing plan New Zealand aims to end homelessness, strengthen renters’ rights and fix the housing crisis.

The Green Party housing plan New Zealand aims to end homelessness, strengthen renters’ rights and fix the housing crisis.
The Government’s move toward criminalising homelessness in New Zealand follows major cuts to emergency housing and welfare. Is this policy solving poverty — or punishing it?

Wellington’s sewage crisis reignites debate over scrapping Three Waters. Was ditching water reform ideological sabotage with real-world consequences?

It’s been two years of Chris Luxon as Prime Minister and those 24 months have become a measure of how…
New Zealanders appear to have rejected National’s on-going carping at the Coalition government’s ‘Kiwibuild’ programme.
This weekend (26/27 May), two disparate voices called for a more egalitarian society in our country. The voices of Children’s Commissioner, Judge Andrew Becroft, and Chief Executive of the Employers & Manufacturers Association (Northern), Kim Campbell, both made statements on TV3’s The Nation and TVNZ’s Q+A (respectively), that only a few years ago would have been heresy to neo-liberal orthodoxy.
Soon after criticising the Coalition for “hiding debt in SOEs” – a capital offense that National was guilty of in 2009, and which contributed to bankrupting Solid Energy by 2015 – National Party’s finance spokesperson, Amy Adams, was at it again.
The recent Housing Report reveals National’s ineptitude when it came to homelessness and housing unaffordability. Even retiring baby-boomers do not escape National’s incompetence when it came to unrestrained migration; insufficient housing stock; spiralling speculation; and poorly-planned infrastructure to cope with a rising population;
. . Hutt Valley, 29 June – As reported on Tuesday (27 June) a woman, “S” – and her family,…
In 1 days’ time, a family of five in Upper Hutt will become homeless. They are in the final week of a 90 Day notice to vacate.