Housing Crisis What Housing Crisis?

[artemis]

No they didn't claim they could do the impossible. They claimed there was no problem...

Wasn't it more that there was no 'crisis', though it was not clear what that actually meant. Also it was said many many times that land availability was low due largely to local authority urban limits and restrictions in the RMA. Reform to the latter was victim of MMP.

I think there has been a crisis in one area, and that is insufficient emergency housing for an increasing number of renters unable to obtain private rentals or who have been evicted from social housing.

If we want someone to blame, how about mean and greedy landlords who are not too keen on renting their valuable asset to potentially problem tenants. There were over 76,000 applications to the Tenancy Tribunal in 2016 and 2017, most brought by landlords. The most common issues made in the applications related to termination/possession, rent arrears, current tenancy issues and application fee refunds.

That is a lot of easily identified potential problems for landlords, even without credit and reference checking.

[eri]

central gov. has never been responsible for releasing land for development

that has always been the jealously held responsibility of local gov.

local gov. then got lost up its own rectum resulting in $500,000 sections

basic economics suggest $500,000 of land is best built with a $500,000 dwelling

so that's what builders produced

cue the affordability crisis

if council could release $200,000 sections

builders would respond with $400,000 packages to suit buyers

now the lefties have both arms of gov.

they will either make it work

or completely stuff it up

if the later

neither will take responsibility

for demanding 1st world "best practices"homes

in a 2nd world "poor productivity" economy

[Bob Kane]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/hamilton-n...ectid=12027170

Labour command house prices be reduced!

Government tells Hamilton council to lower housing prices

There. That's all that's needed.
House prices will be coming down.

[Davo36]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/hamilton-n...ectid=12027170

Labour command house prices be reduced!


There. That's all that's needed.
House prices will be coming down.

Well it is councils stopping a lot of development, so actually it makes sense.