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.
This is a war of privilege between the haves and want mores, this is not a fight between the haves and have nots. In one corner the rich baby boomer property speculators are fighting the Unitary Plan to keep their privilege, in the other corner blue-green millennials who want the privilege they feel they’ve been denied are leading the fight for it.
Airedale Property Trust and Lifewise