Originally Posted by
Logen Ninefingers
Ok, 50,000 immigrants per annum is no issue in your eyes....how many houses per annum should this country be building? Do we want all our prime horticultural land close to Auckland to be covered in housing? What is the endgame here? We now have more real estate agents in NZ than we do farmers.
Soon as COVID hit there was some guy on the radio from some construction industry body carrying on about how it could be a calamity for the building industry and how every NZer - regardless of age, stage, or wealth - should be paid $50,000 by the government to ‘invest’ into property. This is the mentality. This was on the TV3 breakfast show as well.
We have all our eggs in one basket.