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How very unusual for this govt.... 
Disgraceful. This shouldn't be happening, no one should be homeless.
It wasn't always like this. It doesn't have to be like this.
Once upon a time decades ago, in 1935 " Then Minister of Housing Walter Nash told New Zealand it could not prosper or progress with a population that "lack[s] the conditions necessary for a 'home' and 'home life', in the best and fullest meaning of those words".
So basically saying that no one could prosper until all were housed. Which is a very different view to the present & some previous govts.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/5722...missioners
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Himself was on Q&A this morning, looks like the outrage over the increased homelessness has got to the Nats. They are easing up on the stupid rules foisted on Winz staffers and promise 300 dedicated homes for rough sleepers.
Wonder where they'll find those...
On the home front, we have a new tenant, moved in over night (in the dark), to the unit opposite the alcoholic strange one. Which is good, because being male he should be safe from that one...
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(07-09-2025, 02:30 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: Himself was on Q&A this morning, looks like the outrage over the increased homelessness has got to the Nats. They are easing up on the stupid rules foisted on Winz staffers and promise 300 dedicated homes for rough sleepers.
Wonder where they'll find those...
On the home front, we have a new tenant, moved in over night (in the dark), to the unit opposite the alcoholic strange one. Which is good, because being male he should be safe from that one...
Easing up...oh gee, there must be an election within cooee..  
Funny how you get so much more cynical about politicians as you get older.
New tenant sounds intriguing.
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was there no housing shortage under the last government ?
The problem with socialism is you eventually run out of other people’s money
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(08-09-2025, 12:14 PM)heisenberg Wrote: was there no housing shortage under the last government ?
Our troll must have come back from holiday! The previous government were at least trying to catch up with housing demand. The present bunch of wankers has stopped the building of social housing, so their landlord mates can rip off renters.
I do have other cameras!
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no not on holiday last time i tried to log in here it looked like the place had closed and just in case you didn’t know the internet works nearly everywhere
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Our holiday, not yours Heinie 
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(08-09-2025, 03:14 PM)harm_less Wrote: Our holiday, not yours Heinie
I suppose it was inevitable really...
I noticed earlier that David Seymour was on FB; one or two people disagreeing with him, others clearly love him.
I resisted the temptation...
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(08-09-2025, 03:14 PM)harm_less Wrote: Our holiday, not yours Heinie
whatever
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Bloody technology heisenberg. We missed you.
Honest.
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A shortage of a product = Boom, up goes the value. Everybody happy!
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(09-09-2025, 01:27 PM)amrist Wrote: A shortage of a product = Boom, up goes the value. Everybody happy!
Yeah...not everybody. Just the greeders....
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(09-09-2025, 03:26 PM)Lilith7 Wrote: (09-09-2025, 01:27 PM)amrist Wrote: A shortage of a product = Boom, up goes the value. Everybody happy!
Yeah...not everybody. Just the greeders....
Or more accurately price rises due to the supply and demand model benefit existing owners (in property terms) and suppliers (in retail) so long as there is enough elasticity in the market for those increases to be tolerated. Those on the buyers' end of the equation are generally impacted negatively.
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(09-09-2025, 03:32 PM)harm_less Wrote: (09-09-2025, 03:26 PM)Lilith7 Wrote: Yeah...not everybody. Just the greeders....
Or more accurately price rises due to the supply and demand model benefit existing owners (in property terms) and suppliers (in retail) so long as there is enough elasticity in the market for those increases to be tolerated. Those on the buyers' end of the equation are generally impacted negatively.
That'll be why vulture landlords form Auckland descended on a small town in the SI & bought up those for sale ex state houses. And then proceeded to rent them out.
At Auckland prices....
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(09-09-2025, 03:40 PM)Lilith7 Wrote: (09-09-2025, 03:32 PM)harm_less Wrote: Or more accurately price rises due to the supply and demand model benefit existing owners (in property terms) and suppliers (in retail) so long as there is enough elasticity in the market for those increases to be tolerated. Those on the buyers' end of the equation are generally impacted negatively.
That'll be why vulture landlords form Auckland descended on a small town in the SI & bought up those for sale ex state houses. And then proceeded to rent them out.
At Auckland prices....
of course they did
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Ok so does anyone like Auckland/ers?
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Me.
Of course.
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(10-09-2025, 08:57 AM)amrist Wrote: Ok so does anyone like Auckland/ers?
Of course we do - thing is, they're not all the same are they. 
Good & bad just like everywhere else.
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(10-09-2025, 08:57 AM)amrist Wrote: Ok so does anyone like Auckland/ers?
They were a bit naughty during Covid, with their jaunts around the country, but generally the rest of NZ just tolerates them
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