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1st May 2017, 11:57 | #401 |
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It's at "but her emails" levels of delusion. Central government has fuck all ability to do anything about Auckland's housing, the end. If you think that the National Party is to blame for Auckland's housing problems that means that you are ignorant (solution: learn how government works) or you just really want to blame National for everything including mass extinctions (solution: none).
Again, for the millionth time... NZ does not have a housing crisis. Auckland has a housing crisis. Auckland's housing problems can be solved by - expanding the city outwards; or - expanding the city upwards; or - euthanising a million people* The Christchurch rebuild has proven that the construction industry is ready and waiting to build shit fast WHEN IT'S ALLOWED TO. The reason that it's not working on building Auckland out and/or up and thereby fixing the Auckland housing crisis is because IT IS NOT ALLOWED TO. The permission it needs can not come from central government. It is NOT A FUCKING CENTRAL GOVERNMENT ISSUE. * ok, I concede that this is something that central government could in theory do, but you know, OPTICS. |
1st May 2017, 12:03 | #402 |
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Hey I just thought of something that central government COULD do: amend the Resource Management Act to make it harder for NIMBYs and activists to block development proposals.
That's something the National Government could do to help Auckland. Weaken the Resource Management Act. I'm sure those "wellingtonian labour apologist or green supporting auckland millennial" voters will be all up ons. |
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Come on Ab, it’s a bit hysterical to equate thinking policy can affect housing in Auckland to National being the cause of all evil.
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lol snarky ab. I was only ever amused at greens being cool with 5-6 stories in the likes of Milford etc (which isn't in my back yard btw.. and for sure don't touch their devonport!) while good old len's areas were exempt and then shitting on those who were against it, when they constantly wail on about local involvement in democracy. But of course, they were old and disagreed, so..
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1st May 2017, 12:22 | #406 |
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I was just googling for some numbers and found this article at Spinoff last year, which I like because it agrees with me which means it's super great:
https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/28-...-fix-a-crisis/ In fact it agrees with me so much that it seems almost too much of a coincidence, so maybe I've read it before. |
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1st May 2017, 15:07 | #409 |
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People are becoming homeless not because there are zero houses/rooms empty, but because there are zero houses/rooms they can afford.
Simple fix - no new loans on rental properties, and banks should call in loans on existing rental properties. If you don't 100% own a house, you don't have the right to rent it. Prices would plummet as most landlords would be forced to sell, and the old "someone else is paying my mortgage ho ho ho" game would come to an end. If you can currently afford rent, you could probably afford to buy the house you live in if house prices halved. People would be more financially secure, and be able to loan money to each other to help them afford the deposit. Of course our financial masters would hate this, so we'll continue to pay the cost socially while they receive money for nothing. But let's keep blaming this or that resource act and pretend we just need more brand new houses for landlords to rent out to people who can't even afford the worst ones.
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1st May 2017, 15:18 | #410 | |
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1st May 2017, 15:23 | #411 |
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Increase supply of lower priced houses by reducing demand for houses to be used as rental property.
The demand to house Generation Rent is being met by current supply. The problem is that they are doomed to being Generation Rent, not Generation Homeless.
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1st May 2017, 18:19 | #414 |
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Yeah, nationalise the banks and have a country-wide lending policy set by the Beehive, that'll be awesome
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1st May 2017, 18:20 | #415 |
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Owning a rental property is unethical?
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Immigration could be one. I'm pretty sure potential international migrants get more points towards their residency if they reside outside of Auckland, so the government obviously recognises this and has responded to it. But maybe that just skews the migrants Auckland gets. Maybe there are a lot of national migrants too? But there's the labour market, material costs, etc., etc. Things both inside and outside of Auckland's sphere of influence. If because of reasons the government finds a housing problem in any part of NZ, I don't see why its place would be to simply observe and note.
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Labour is concerned more about equal outcomes rather than equal opportunities when creating their MP list and now they want to introduce the presumption of guilt as part of their election campaign?
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4th May 2017, 14:38 | #418 |
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LET AUCKLAND RAISE ITS OWN FUNDS VIA TAXATION. Cos, lets face it, raising rates is gonna piss off the only people who vote. Building houses is easy, but building the water, power, sewage, comms, roading, stormwater, footpaths and cyclelanes cost a fuckton. And unless I'm wrong, it's the council that pays for _most_ of that, not the house builder. |
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Labour wants mental health teams within GP practices, free appointments for mental health issues
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11th May 2017, 23:36 | #421 |
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Politicians cooking up mental health policy or approaches to mental health in general is a bad idea. All Labour needs to do is make a commitment to an academic approach to mental health practice over National's idealogical approach.
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