Its Over Luxon Wins

[Wainuiguy]

Actually I see new homes rising around us here on the Shore every time I go out. After a long drawn out period of all talk and no digging, all of a sudden cloned apartment blocks are going up all over the place - private developments, while the state is developing several large groups of social housing - multiple unit blocks that should be homes for lots of people by the end of this year.

But, whether that will significantly spike the rising property prices is all guesswork. I doubt it personally, the few who own land are not too willing to let those values drop despite the fact it is all paper wealth. And I am not convinced apartments are going to replace actual homes on actual land for many of us, though getting smaller is definitely a trend to be welcomed.

The reality is until the gaps close more, the inequity in our community will continue and that is not good for any of us, long term.

Trouble is you don't solve gaps by dragging down the top and giving free stuff to the bottom.    
Unfortunately while we measure "poverty" as a % of average income you will simply never solve it.  Reality you will never solve poverty.

"Surely you're not saying
We have the resources
To save the poor from their lot?
There will be poor  always
Pathletically struggling
Look at the good things youve got"

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to be fair though, this housing crisis was decades in the making and was never going to be solved within one or two terms in office, the foundation needed to be laid first.  If they're guilty of anything it is of being overly optimistic..  and then throw in a pandemic and tens of thousand over overseas kiwis returning home...

National wanted to redo the RMA to make freeing up land easier - Labour refused to help.
Now 6 years later they are redoing the RMA to make freeing up land easier, changing building codes etc - National have offered to assist. 

Overly optimistic is a nice term - or you could say totally unrealistic - what almost every housing expert told them.