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Originally Posted by spigalau
There's about 80 odd old Auckland trains & carriages currently stored in Taumaranui (awaiting sale - yeah right). Why not move them back to Auckland and convert them to temporary accommodation units. Could be done behind the old train station.
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Any practical suggestion of emergency housing will be castrated by health/safety regulations and NIMBYs. You would think places like maraes and churches (which benefit from not paying tax due to their social responsibility) could be set up as temporary shelters for homeless, but we won't do that because there is no crisis. Even if we did do that, there is no plan to actually solve the problem of affordable housing, so it would introduce overwhelming dependency that will be hard to dismantle. Hence, $5000 to get out of Auckland.
Better just to keep repeating that there is no crisis, and promise tax cuts (!).