Quote Originally Posted by Bjauck View Post
Residents seeking a house to live in should be prioritised and non-residents seeking an investment should pay stamp duty or be restricted to building new houses. Otherwise people who work in the city will be increasingly excluded from owning a house here. For example:
Cost of Auckland living forces police officer to quit
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=11877760
That police officer story is quite strange. Police are pretty well paid, but being a student not so much.