You can never have enough...

[JanW]

Why Chloe? She isn't a Minister, or even an MP with any power beyond a voice. She is repeatedly quoted as saying everyone has a human right to a safe home, particularly in response to the Ministers who do have power who seem intent on withdrawing funding from community housing providers, on ensuring challenging tenants have no security of tenancy, and on rewarding private landlords with taxation benefits that do nothing to make more housing available or reducing rents.

The providers, including the state are now cancelling housing development plans, projects on the drawing boards are being shelved. Which is great for private landlords, demand will increase and the market will support rent increases, and the dropping of standards. Meanwhile we will open the gates to more immigrants, many with the means to inflate the housing market further.

We are going backwards. Back to the regime that created the housing problem in the first place. The one that allows some to benefit from inflated paper property values, while even more live in their cars, or in parks or garages, or boarding houses, or raise their children in motel units within gang run communities.

The media are powerless unless the government listens. It has no intention of listening. Gang members don't vote, neither do mums run ragged by their kids. Most MPs haven't the guts to be honest, and would rather turn a blind eye to anything that doesn't serve their career interests.

The system is broken Jan, and there is very little you, or I, or Chloe can do about it. And fixing it is something that will take years, even if they find the will to get behind such a reversal of political direction. Meanwhile people are suffering serious harm, especially children. For all the advances in science and technology, we are still fighting the same battles, seeing the same costs paid by those who deserve better.

But hey, we have more billionaires every year. So that's something I guess...

Chloe stood in parliament demanding Luxon quit if the cleaning up of emergency accommodation resulted in one child being moved out because their family was causing chaos all around them making life for other families unbearable .These parents  who are not caring for their kids don’t need Chloe to use them for political gain she should be standing beside National and working towards a resolution .I reckon they should threaten to cut the benefit - then people jump up and down saying what about then Chloe Wouk’s say what about the kids - the kids aren’t being looked after now 
Imagine how many houses could $ have been built with the 18 million paid to just one motel - included in the presentation the young Mum put together was copies of the contract signed under  National $680 per week per unit - the contract signed under labour $2400 per unit .Honestly Hunni you wouldn’t want you cat to live in it - they charge people cleaning when they kick people out but no cleaning is done - so animal waste is not uncommon dirty nappies .
The projects that have been put on hold are being repriced and new contracts drawn up - just like the motel owner the Housing Corporation over the last five years have not been at all cautious regarding pricing - my sibling owns a large construction company built Kiwibuild homes and State houses - has never seen such waste of taxpayers money - 
I agree about the immigration especially when we saw under the last watch hundreds of refugees coming in with no job to come to but our Ukrainian family of bakers were kicked out even though they could provide for themselves and the bakery school for autistic young adults closed down 
Remember when we used to capitalise our family benefit - I reckon  families should be able to capitalise their housing allowance which now  goes into a landlords pocket -we need to do something radical