Posts Tagged ‘housing crisis’
Salvation Army contradicts Key’s homelessness claims
Written By: - Date published: 2:32 pm, June 3rd, 2016 - 95 comments
Remember Key saying yesterday that the MSD and the Salvation Army knocked on the doors of eight cars that people were living in and no one wanted their help? The Salvation Army says nothing of the sort happened.
Help Te Puea Marae help the homeless
Written By: - Date published: 7:01 am, June 3rd, 2016 - 19 comments
The Marae providing practical support to the homeless in Auckland needs our help. You can donate at the Givealittle page here. It is shameful that this is needed in NZ, but there it is, this is what the Brighter Future looks like.
Why not just – build some damn houses?
Written By: - Date published: 3:46 pm, June 2nd, 2016 - 91 comments
Today the Nats released a National Policy Statment (NPS) on housing. It formalises their recent strategy of incorrectly blaming local councils – and it doesn’t build anything.
Key’s housing plan “moronic”
Written By: - Date published: 2:51 pm, June 1st, 2016 - 25 comments
It isn’t often that you here such a blunt assessment of Nat policy. It’s moronic because it isn’t a housing policy at all, it’s a blame deflecting plan.
Labour builds the houses (yet another Key lie)
Written By: - Date published: 2:49 pm, May 31st, 2016 - 19 comments
Good work fact-checking by Geoff Simmons at the Morgan Foundation. Contrary to Key’s lie, Labour builds more houses than National.
Watkin on the Nats’ housing blame game
Written By: - Date published: 9:35 am, May 30th, 2016 - 57 comments
Tim Watkin: “What’s clear is that National, as is their well worn tactic, will do its best to ensure the blame gets shared around”.
Housing should not depend on charity – but this is an emergency
Written By: - Date published: 8:15 am, May 30th, 2016 - 45 comments
Bravo to Te Puea Marae and their supporters – you are doing what needs to be done – and you are putting the government to shame.
Auckland’s housing crisis is just like Christchurch’s except …
Written By: - Date published: 8:20 am, May 29th, 2016 - 38 comments
Steven Joyce has claimed that Auckland’s housing crisis is like Christchurch’s. Has Auckland recently had two disastrous earthquakes?
Screw democracy – Auckland to get the Canterbury treatment
Written By: - Date published: 7:24 am, May 28th, 2016 - 172 comments
It’s naked panic now. In response to the crisis that isn’t a crisis Key is going to overrule the council that his government created and screw over Auckland democracy just like he screwed over Canterbury. What do you think of that Aucklanders?
Housing policy omnishambles
Written By: - Date published: 2:45 pm, May 27th, 2016 - 19 comments
The Nats will pay you $3000 to move to Auckland and $5000 to leave it. This is what happens when you have no vision, no plan, and no NFI what you’re doing.
Key’s powerful speech on the urgent housing crisis
Written By: - Date published: 9:12 am, May 27th, 2016 - 41 comments
John Key has given a powerful speech on NZ’s housing crisis: “This is an issue that should concern all New Zealanders. It threatens a fundamental part of our culture, it threatens our communities and, ultimately, it threatens our economy.”
Budget 2016 – F for Fail
Written By: - Date published: 8:15 am, May 27th, 2016 - 31 comments
— Deborah Russell
Bennett’s housing “announcement” is a re-announcement and a lie
Written By: - Date published: 3:27 pm, May 25th, 2016 - 140 comments
Paula Bennett’s “big” housing “announcement” today is a re-announcement with a twist of lie.
Newshub poll – Key’s government has failed on housing
Written By: - Date published: 3:10 pm, May 25th, 2016 - 48 comments
Quite apart from falling to his lowest level ever as preferred PM, the Newshub poll had more bad news for King John.
Bennett admits she was wrong
Written By: - Date published: 8:01 am, May 25th, 2016 - 18 comments
Paula Bennett has basically apologised to Parliament for claiming that National would create 3,000 new social housing beds when all that it was doing is funding existing beds to make sure they did not disappear.
Another strong piece from Little
Written By: - Date published: 9:43 am, May 24th, 2016 - 36 comments
Andrew Little had an excellent piece in The Herald yesterday: “It’s always about choices, and National has made some terrible ones”.
Petition to forgive emergency accommodation debt
Written By: - Date published: 11:30 am, May 20th, 2016 - 18 comments
A petition: “As Minister of Social Development we call upon Minister Anne Tolley to urgently forgive all debts incurred by people who have been forced to stay in Motels as emergency accommodation….”
In the middle of a housing crisis Housing Corp is selling state houses
Written By: - Date published: 9:31 am, May 20th, 2016 - 49 comments
John Campbell is covering the homeless crisis with stories that highlight the personal tragedies that are occurring and the complete indifference of the Government to their plight.
Incoherent, unfair and unaccountable
Written By: - Date published: 7:01 am, May 20th, 2016 - 48 comments
That is how officials from the Ministry of Social Development described the emergency housing system to Social Housing Minister Paula Bennett – a year ago. What has Bennett done in the year since?
Glib words and false hope aren’t going to cut it
Written By: - Date published: 7:02 am, May 19th, 2016 - 151 comments
This is a massive market and moral failure. The problem isn’t going to go away, it’s going to get worse, and the media are going to stay on the case. Time for National to borrow some more Labour / Green policy thinking.
Homeless coverage goes international
Written By: - Date published: 2:52 pm, May 17th, 2016 - 97 comments
Coverage of Auckland’s homeless goes international. The working poor are now the working homeless.
The hidden homeless and the speculators
Written By: - Date published: 9:06 am, May 16th, 2016 - 44 comments
Speculators keep buying houses while families live in garages and cars. This is a moral failure, a leadership failure, a market failure – it is every kind of failure.
Land tax – what’s the down side?
Written By: - Date published: 7:22 am, May 12th, 2016 - 75 comments
The Nats are using spurious data to justify dropping a proposal for a land tax on foreign buyers of housing. Why?
Hickey on Housing data
Written By: - Date published: 7:16 am, May 11th, 2016 - 26 comments
“Mr Hickey said the actual figure for foreigners buying homes here could be anywhere between 3 and 48 percent.”
Key’s land tax – too weak
Written By: - Date published: 7:11 am, April 28th, 2016 - 76 comments
Reaction to Key’s land tax has been luke warm at best, with strong calls for more effective action. Labour is promising “a ‘tidal wave’ of big housing reforms”…
Housing crisis solved!
Written By: - Date published: 4:10 pm, April 22nd, 2016 - 26 comments
I don’t like to boast, but I have solved the housing crisis.
National gets a smacking on the housing crisis
Written By: - Date published: 7:21 am, April 20th, 2016 - 59 comments
Fair to say that Simon Bridges’ claim that there is no housing crisis has – not gone down well. National – you have a problem.
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