Quote Originally Posted by westerly View Post
Let the market sort it out? Thats a joke. Too much money to be made building landscaped complete houses for those who can afford high mortages(or not).
Basic houses financed by State Advance loans for first home buyers which developers catered for disappeared with the 1987 policy changes introduced by Prebble ,Shipley and their followers.
Resuting in todays problems for which Labour is reluctant to introduce any real solutions.

westerly
Landscaped complete properties for those who can afford them add to stock and leave older cheaper homes for first home buyers. That's an important part of 'the market sorting it out'. If the market can't - the govt. won't be able to either.