November 11th.
Band Aid Politics
The National led government has announced a $300 million housing package over the next 4 years to provide an extra 1400 new emergency beds for the homeless.
While the government still refuses to acknowledge that there is a housing crisis in the country. The evidence would suggest otherwise,the government is out of touch with the reality of the hardships facing families living in cars,garages,caravan parks and on the street.
Housing New Zealand has been reduced to a shadow of its former self,with thousands of state homes sold off to private landlords.
The governments housing policies are a shambles and will become a disaster if the government goes ahead with its plans to sell more state housing to overseas multinationals and local business interests. The New Zealand taxpayer will bear the cost for this with increased landlord subsidies through the accommodation supplement.
Poor housing and homelessness along with child poverty will be the lasting legacy of the Key administration.Government has to build more state houses and support struggling low income families in particular.Many families have been pushed to the edges of our free market economy,it has failed to reach them,if the government continues to ignore the housing crisis,we will all pay the price for these failed policies of exclusion.
The world of affordable rental housing is vanishing before our eyes,we have to reverse this trend.
