Housing Crisis in NZ: Progressive Solutions for Affordable Living
New Zealand’s housing crisis continues despite falling prices. Here are progressive policy solutions that could improve affordability and reduce speculation.
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Government will now arrest the homeless that they have created!
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?
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Economy in meltdown and the broken privatisation experiment never more apparent – so why is NZ Left floundering?
Rising unemployment, collapsing public services, and growing inequality expose New Zealand as a failed privatisation experiment — and raise hard questions for the Left.
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National’s housing spokesperson Michael Woodhouse – delusional or outright fibber?
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;
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National continues to panic on housing crisis as election day looms
National’s “grand plans” for 220 new social and transitional places remains woefully short of the 1,138 houses that National sold off to IHC’s Accessible Properties at the end of March. It is also unclear what is meant by ” transitional places”. Are these actual houses? Or motel units, à la Auckland-style;
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DAILY BLOG EXCLUSIVE: Auckland Housing Crisis Special Investigation – Homeless using after hour Bunnings Carparks as home
Why the bloody hell is New Zealand getting so unaffordable that an Australian companys carpark is the best help available to a growing number of our people?
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Popular reforms being stymied by National and Labour
Politicians lose respect when they know something needs to be done but won’t do it for fear of losing a few votes.
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GUEST BLOG: Anonymous – the truth about the housing crisis in Auckland
Every week over this wet winter I am being asked to fix substandard structures that are leaking that should not in any way be housing but are being populated by families, couples, the working poor who consist in equal measure of both people born here and recent non-wealthy migrants.
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Why you must protest the greed of The Block
There is something deeply morally wrong about a small minority in our society making huge profits from non productive speculation, setting the economy up for a crash, whilst hard working people struggle to keep up with rack renting…
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MUST READ: Land and Shelter: Unpacking the Crisis
Shelter is a human right, not a privilege. Private ownership of land is a privilege, not a human right. The debate is framed about getting ‘first-home buyers’ on the ‘property ladder’. Framing this as a right makes no more sense than having a debate about how to get people onto the ‘sharemarket ladder’.
