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New Zealand's public housing crisis: Waiting list grows nearly 1000 in two months 19 Jan, 2021 11:19 PM 4 minutes to read The New Lynn site in Auckland where Kāinga Ora replaced 16 houses with 82 new homes. Image / Supplied Social issues reporter, NZ Heraldmichael.neilson@nzherald.co.nz More than 2000 new households in a month have joined the public housing waiting list, which has grown nearly sevenfold in the past five years to 22,409. In two months from September to November last year the list increased overall by nearly 1000 applicants, with the number coming off it and into new homes con...

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Ardern was asked whether the Government’s latest and ongoing housing policy reset was really only wanting house price inflation to moderate to around last year’s 4 per cent rise, rather than for house prices to actually fall. What would be so bad about a fall in house prices, she was asked. “It is much more sustainable to have those much smaller increases. I think people expect that you see that in the market,” Ardern said. “What we also accept is that for most New Zealanders, their house is their most significant asset. So if you see, for instance – as was predicted at the beg...

Government ignores MBIE's advice to delay and reduce minimum wage hike 6 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM 6 minutes to read Willie Jackson, the Government's holiday period Duty Minister, (pictured here with Finance Minister Grant Robertson, left) defended the minimum wage decision. Photo / Mark Mitchell The Government's decision to push ahead with a large minimum wage hike in April flouts bureaucrats' advice to both delay and severely temper the increase. The Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment (MBIE) provided the Government with a review, dated December 2020, which advised del...