Press Release – New Zealand National Party
More and more New Zealanders are feeling helpless as the property ladder is rapidly pulled up in front of them because the Government has no real solutions to the housing crisis.
“Housing Minister Megan Woods needs to take responsibility for the emergency that is unfolding on her watch,” National’s Housing spokesperson Nicola Willis says.
“Our most vulnerable are the worst hit. People on lower wages are increasingly spending more than half of their income on rent and it’s, sadly, driving more families onto the social housing waiting list, which has more than tripled in the past three years.”
Press Release – New Zealand National Party More and more New Zealanders are feeling helpless as the property ladder is rapidly pulled up in front of them because the Government has no real solutions to the housing crisis. Housing Minister Megan Woods needs to take responsibility for the emergency …
More and more New Zealanders are feeling helpless as the property ladder is rapidly pulled up in front of them because the Government has no real solutions to the housing crisis.
“Housing Minister Megan Woods needs to take responsibility for the emergency that is unfolding on her watch,” National’s Housing spokesperson Nicola Willis says.
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Matthew Gribben: The 2020 National Policy Statement on Urban Development 2020 specifies where intensification should occur, a significant departure from the earlier national direction. How can one central government policy achieve such an outcome? The RMA requires each district and region to prepare its own planning documents which prescribe the location, scale and density of residential development. But in 2013, the Supreme Court established the primacy of national direction. This means a government can issue national policy that must be implemented in cities and regions across the country. It is now a very powerful policy making tool for central government. The NPS replaces an earlier 2016 version which emphasised the need for councils in high-growth areas to provide more housing, but generally left it up to local councils to decide where that growth was provided.