NZers need to understand National doesn’t care about homelessness or housing affordability
What consistently gets missed in the on going arguments about the Hoising Crisis is that National have no interest whatsoever in solving the problem.
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The Spinoff’s first great victory in their Unitary Plan war on blah blah – where’s Patrick Reynolds now?
The simple truth is that only a political revolution akin to Bernie Sanders is going to change NZs addiction with property. Most of our MPs are property speculators and their vested interests won’t and can’t be changed.
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EXCLUSIVE: Vanessa Kururangi – State Housing Action Inc to take Government to Court over privatisation of State Houses
State Housing Action Incorporated (S.H.A Inc.) now officially announces our intention to file for a Judicial Review with the High Court of New Zealand, against the sale of State Houses in Tauranga.
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GUEST BLOG: Ben Peterson – Protest at “The Block” Open home
In recent weeks the nightly TV news has had story after story about the affordability of housing. But the moment the TV news finishes at 7:30 pm, it’s like the problem goes away. For TV they go straight into their latest reality TV hit- The Block. The Block is a celebration of property speculation. Contestants are given a house, renovate and flip it in less than six months, winners claiming any profit they get along the way.
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Why the Unitary Plan is a fight between the haves and want mores
We need to ban foreign ownership, bring in a capital gains tax and build 100 000 affordable houses for first time buyers and 10 000 state homes to be built in Auckland alongside an urban intensification to solve this Housing Crisis.
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BREAKING- Allegations of Political interference to twist foreign buyers numbers
Labour have come out with an incredibly serious allegation that Steven Joyce and other Government Ministers manipulated the foreign buyers register to make the numbers appear far smaller than they really are…
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Property bubble, P houses, ghost houses, State Housing privatisation, unaffordable houses & the homeless
We are seeing a complete break down of our crucial social services. The spiteful harvest of National’s draconian welfare reforms are coming home to roost and NZers should feel ashamed of what it says about us as a country.
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Shortlisted state house buyers dominated by profit
New Zealand needs more state housing, not less. We are in the middle of a housing crisis for low and middle income New Zealanders and only the government has the resources and the capacity to provide the large number of quality, affordable housing so desperately needed.
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GUEST BLOG: Daniel Strypey Bruce – Basic Standards for Rental Housing is Win-Win
Since I began renting in 1995, average rents have doubled in most parts of the country, and tripled in the most in-demand areas of Tamaki Makaurau, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, and so on. This has been accompanied by massive increases in the cost of electricity, telecommunications, water charges in some areas, and other costs associated with running a modern household.