April 24th 2017. Solution's to the housing crisis.
In Ireland the government has put in place a scheme where the state pay's for refurbishment of private rental accommodation if it is allocated to social housing.The government has provided 500,000 euro's [1 million dollars ] to ensure neglected private sector properties are brought on stream for social housing,under a series of initatives.
Local council's have slashed their own vacant stock rates from 3% to under 1% under the scheme.In New Zealand council housing is less than 2% of all rental housing because under the Bolger National government they were encouraged to sell council housing and many council's did just that.Another policy being used is for the government to make available $100 million to local council's to purchase derelict properties and convert them to social housing,these idea's could could work here in New Zealand in reducing our homeless problem.All it takes is the political will.
