Labour Slams National’s Social Housing Cuts
Labour says National is forcing vulnerable social housing tenants to pay for Budget savings through higher rents and reduced support.

Labour says National is forcing vulnerable social housing tenants to pay for Budget savings through higher rents and reduced support.

Critics say New Zealand’s debt panic is driven by neoliberal myths designed to justify cuts while protecting wealthy interests and property speculation.

After cutting housing and social support, the Government now wants police powers to move on and punish the homeless its own policies helped create.

Kāinga Ora is being accused of abandoning its public housing purpose as developments are scrapped, properties sold off and homelessness deepens.

The Greens say Luxon is turning homelessness into a policing issue after policies they argue pushed more people onto the streets.

Labour says National’s crackdown on rough sleeping won’t solve homelessness, it will just push vulnerable people out of city centres and into the suburbs.

Student debt, impossible rents and collapsing home ownership aren’t accidents, they’re the economic architecture of modern New Zealand, and young people are paying for it.

The economy built on housing speculation, privatisation and cheap growth is colliding with climate chaos, energy shocks and public exhaustion.

More than 1,100 Kāinga Ora jobs have already gone. Now the Government wants to centralise maintenance teams while tenants wait longer for repairs.

National wants credit for rents going down. The ugly truth? Rents are softening because Kiwis are leaving, demand is collapsing, and the economy is bleeding.