Originally Posted by
SBQ
Perhaps we (the people of NZ) need to know how many properties all these politicians own? I'm a firm believer that when a financial adviser is selling you a product, you also must look at what they're investing in. So if NZ politicians are saying housing is a problem ; perhaps the people need to look at if issues such as CGT, will affect their investments in houses.
How they say, 'self serving their own interests?'
I will go as far as placing those NIMBY people in the same category as the NZ politicians. My uncle studied to be an architect in Auckland and my complaints about how poorly planned Auckland is when I compared to great cities overseas like Vancouver in how they future proof their developments. I was explaining how overseas sub divisions are 'grided' and often divided by an alley way road way to service the back yards of the houses. The response from him was "these grid like developments are boring" and then I say at the cost of what? Burning more fuel / energy because the street ways are not straight? How about the extra requirement to build long driveways for individual lots that get sub divided? (when in Vancouver the back alley road already serves as road access to building 'lane houses'.