More than made up for it by limiting housing demand.
Where will National come up with 100k new homes each year.
I can't speak for any future govt, but in the past both Lab and Nat housing policies have been stuffed, bringing us to where we are now. During Ardern's terms in office The RB and she have overseen policies that have made NZ houses much more expensive. The pandemic door was shut for too long to keen immigrants. Now there are labour shortages. Many newer immigrants also seem to skip to Australia for housing and cost of living reasons too. If you need carers, either medical or acc, good luck getting regular help when needed.
Another day, another hospital under pressure and health of patients compromised - thanks to clueless & useless Ardern & her head in the sand incompetent Andrew Little.
I generally think less people is a desirable thing, esp for the environment.
Do not know how you can justify environmental concerns over housing needs for struggling young kiwi families attempting to own a home. Pie in the sky waffle.
Do not know how you can justify environmental concerns over housing needs for struggling young kiwi families attempting to own a home. Pie in the sky waffle.
They can take up the existing homes as they are doing now.
No need to build more & presumably import all your construction workers to do it (who have to live somewhere too).
Pretty clueless article without any relevant research. The ideologically impaired author takes one statement out of context - and still gets it wrong.
History quite clearly demonstrates that pure capitalism leads to as undesirable results as pure communism. Both systems result in a small powerful and rich leading class and the rest of the population will live in deprived circumstances. If you want to see the ugly face of capitalism, look no further than e.g. Chile under Pinochet or Brazil under Bolzonaro.
The best living conditions world wide are in systems which pick the beneficial elements of the capitalist system (personal responsibility) with the beneficial elements of a social system (a social net for the people in need).
While NZ is clearly far away from both communism as well as (pure) capitalism, she is right that the market in NZ failed poor people. What would be wrong with her statement? It clearly did.
Obviously - she could have added that her government will fail the poor people as well (as it did), but this is a different subject.
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