Housing Shortage In Kapiti
It was interesting to read in the Observer of another Housing New Zealand house standing empty. Equally interesting is KCDC's response.
The shortage of HNZ housing in Kapiti can be laid squarely at the door of the mayor's good friend Jim Bolger and his National government who took a wrecking bar to Housing Corp during the nineties. Along with soaring child poverty, Helen Clark tried very hard to undo the damage done to Housing NZ but it was not that easy to claw back. The genie it seemed was out of the bottle. Not that National stopped there. I thought it was pretty rich of Judith Collins to accuse HNZ of locking people out of their house purchases when they were merely trying to buy back some of the stock Bill English managed to sell off over the last decade.
Like Kiwirail, National seems to have a seek and destroy mission going on with social housing. Mum and Dad landlords will be hurt by it, you see. I'd like to hear from some of those Mums and Dads, but I cant seem to find any. A survey of Wellington landlords I did a few years back revealed that no one in the landlord sector had just one rental. They all had substantial property portfolios. I think the Mum and Dad landlord is a myth. Not that I think KCDC gets out of jail free either. They have the means to free up subdivison regulations and release land that can be built on. They are also able to enforce subdivison conditions to ensure townhouses and other dwellings suitable for our aging population are built, rather than the proliferation of 4-5 bedroom mcmansions. Looks to me like they are sitting on their hands on this one. Is there a term like "greenwash" that applies to social policy, I wonder.
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