Kiwis can t outbid Kāinga Ora: Government grilled over $750 million house-buying bill
25 Feb, 2021 03:43 AM
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Jason Walls is a political reporter for the New Zealand Heraldjason.walls@nzme.co.nz@Jasonwalls92
National is accusing the Government of locking first-home buyers out of the market by purchasing $750 million worth of houses from the private sector.
But Housing Minister Megan Woods has defended her housing agency s actions, saying the spending was only needed to plug the state housing gap left by the previous National government.
Woods was grilled on the topic by National s housing spokeswoman Nicola Willis in Question Time this afternoon.
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