Today in news that makes you want to scream:
Govt admits it had ‘no idea’ of emergency housing costs
Deputy Prime Minister Paula Bennett has admitted “in hindsight” the Government’s response to the housing crisis has been too slow.
At current spending rates, $50 million of taxpayer money will go to motel owners and other emergency housing providers in just a year.
“We had no idea how much it was going to cost,” Ms Bennett told The AM Show on Friday morning.
“We had no idea it would ever be this big. No Government had ever picked up the bill for this. No Government has ever funded emergency housing.” …
NO GOVERNMENT HAS EVER NEEDED TO BEFORE!
This is an entirely predictable, and long predicted, consequence of your policy settings you fools.
Any number social support organisations have issued any number of warnings about increasing poverty, inequality and homelessness for years. Even your own bloody ex PM was warning about the impact of rising house prices back in 2007 FFS.
Just what the hell do you heartless Nats thinks happens to all the people dumped off the benefit, and priced out of the insane property and rental markets? Do you think they just conveniently disappear?
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