It is certainly not going to many renters who can't afford a bond for pets. If they can't afford that they can't afford a deposit to buy a place and hence they will have less options available to them.
The last Govt's policies around rentals were prejudicial against the lower socioeconomic classes. Many of them couldn't keep up or afford the higher rents. Hence why we had a massive increase in the numbers of people in emergency accommodation.
Seems you want to see more homelessness in NZ then. [stop trolling. You're in premod now - weka]
Air BNB, Personal holiday home, or they could just sell them. The last one helps people with the funds to buy a house but not those who don't have those funds or are just looking for a rental for personal reasons.
Do you support the idea that Renters should be able to force their landlord to accept them having pets? Is there a limit to this? If a "Crazy cat lady" wants to have 30 cats in her rental should she have an automatic right to do so? The idea of the bond is...
Which is interesting considering it has one of the highest proportion of land that is Maori freehold land in the country. It is also a part of the country where land confiscations did not take place.
The Atlas Network conspiracy theory is getting really crazy now. People are now claiming that the FSU is part of Atlas despite people like Matt McCarten being involved. I didn't realise Matt McCarten was so easily turned.
Why is this funny? They are doing what their remit is. They are attacking areas of government taxation they think are harmful.
Then you should be able to request an OIO for any communication from the Government to Stats NZ requesting they cease collecting data for this. If you get that it would be HUGELY scandalous.
The Government does not sack Public servants. The Public service is independent.
Why would the Public Servants at Stats NZ be willing to do things to protect the Government from embarrassment? Surely they would be more likely to do things that would embarrass them as they would prefer not to cut spending.
Stats NZ has a choice what data collection (if any) they cut. They obviously decided it was not as worthwhile data as others.
The real issue is the last Government did not define the eligibility criteria clearly enough and did not fund it to the extent they should have. The current Government is merely having to deal with the consequences of this.
It is likely there will be law changes to reverse the decision if it is upheld by the Court of Appeal.
Except her story didn't stand up to scrutiny. When the media started asking her questions that should have been forseen and answers prepared she basically made up a story. She was asked about the family of the father of her child and why did she not ask ...
Nothing the Govt has done in the past few months would have caused the economy to contract. That is more a factor of decision taken (or not taken) by the previous Govt as well as global economic conditions. If the economy is still contracting by the end of...
The most likely outcome in my view will be to reduce the size of any tax cut given they have also promised not to cut Health, Education, or Superannuation. Personally I would raise the age of eligibility for Superannuation to 67 but that would be gradual ...
What are your views on import duties? Do you think they lead to increased costs to consumers in NZ? If we had a 25 % duty on Mobile phones coming into the country and then cut the duty completely would you expect Mobile phones to drop in price or to stay ...
Ummm...bringing in less revenue is one of the major points of (most) tax cuts. What is affordable or not is actual spending. What I believe you are really arguing is that you think there are areas the Government should spend money on that may not be ...
There is no cost in giving tax cuts. There is a loss of revenue. The idea that Government is unable to do something as a result of spending money on not bringing in as much tax is disingenuous. There is also this dangerous idea expressed by people on the ...
Seems like the Hurricane management might disagree with that position.
The Hurricane's management it seems " However, Hurricanes chief executive, Avan Lee, said he wasn't aware of the team's plans to use the haka. He said the franchise will apologise to the government. "Certainly disappointed. There was no discussion, no ...
Kind of like how the Hurricanes had a word with the team to advise them not to do it and they then went ahead and did it again.
He didn't state that. He merely stated a commonly held view by MANY religious people that Homosexuals will go to Hell. It isn't very nice admittedly but it is his strongly held conviction which he expressed in a personal capacity not while he was doing ...
Why are they not an average employee? They are paid to play the sport of Rugby Union. That is their job not to make political statements.
They are entitled to have the view (and act on it) that on work time and on work resources they should have a say in what I communicate to the wider public expecially if I am using my position as an employee to get a larger audience and make a bigger ...
What I find curious about the Hurricane's womens team continuing to use their Haka before the game to make a political point is why noone in the media (that I am aware of) has raised the issue of them as employees abusing their roles. I know I have a ...
A Ministry is not the same as a Minister.
There will be greater restrictions placed on Competitive shooters around keeping semi-automatic rifles than we currently have in place. If there are issues with this group (not general firearm owners) giving weapons to criminials there should be evidence ...
I have no idea because I am not a competition shooter. However people involved with competition shooting obviously do think it can provide some advantages to them. Have you ever thought of asking people involved with competition shooting? I know someone ...
Do you have actual evidence that criminals were getting semi-automatic rifles from competition shooters or are you just making this up?
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