Who are the most psychotically happy journalists in NZ?
The most psychotically happy journalists in NZ are those who write for NZ Herald’s ‘One Roof’ property propaganda.
They breathlessly cry that Property prices are booming, rents gleefully skyrocketing and that it’s NEVER been a better time to buy.
Fox News is more balanced when covering Hilary Clinton than ‘One Roof’ when reporting on the property market.
It’s not an ‘investment’ – it’s a home for another human being!
If speculators refuse to allow tenants in a housing crisis, tax Ghost House owners until they bleed, yet the perspective from One Roof is that property speculation is somehow on par with healing the sick and organ donation.
Meth dealers have more scruples than the journalists at ‘One Roof’.
State loans to NZ citizen first home buyers at rates that will work for them.
This used to be a state function with State Advances Corp plus a State owned insurance company.
How about incentives to help tenants with a rent-to-buy option. At below bank rates. And land-bankers to be publicly flogged. And all residences to be nationalised if the owner has not lived in NZ for 5 years. And get the Army to pitch tents for the homeless in our pretty public parks. And instead of hassling people for renting out garages, just make sure they are liveable. It’s better than being on the streets, right?
This IS a “crisis” right?
How about making it illegal to own more than two houses!
How about making it illegal to own more than two houses!
Kiwi males get an extra large erection once they own their first property, this is not a secret.
… ”Meth dealers have more scruples than the journalists at ‘One Roof’…
Yes I’ll take the hookline to get things started, and yes indeedy , the meth dealer is thinking in short term material gains,… whereas the landlord, the Australian banks and the NZ govt and mortgage brokers are thinking in the long term entrapment of fellow New Zealanders…
What else do you wish to know , Martyn?
My partner watches HG TV a lot of the time. It’s full of house flippers, love it or list it, barnyard renovations and similar shows. It’s essentially pornography for property investors. I say to her occasionally, “Imagine you’re a solo mother on the bones of her arse, desperately trying to make the rent and feed the kids each week… and you’re subjected to this cavalcade of misery.” Hideous American screech-bags howling, “Oh my God! Only three bathrooms?! Brad and I simply can’t cope without a minimum of four!”
It really does make you sick.
Here’s one thing they’ve just done in Berlin, and that we could do in AO/ NZ:
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-berlin-parliament-passes-five-year-rent-freeze/a-52210612
This is a bit of a bandaid measure by Goff, but it is way better than doing nothing, imo, – to help relieve the immediate housing pressures in Auckland: thousands-of-aucklands-ghost-houses-could-be-filled-by-key-workers
Does anyone have any clear, reliable numbers of the homeless in NZ?
Normally a google search will turn up info on just about anything. But for this? Wiki has none. Census figures are for 2013? Where can we find some reliable figures, does anyone know?