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Housing crisis, Covid misinformation, racism: Problems flagged to new ministers The Government has published all the ministers' briefings on their portfolios. Photo / Supplied Housing crisis, Covid misinformation, racism: Problems flagged to new ministers Wed, 16 Dec 2020, 4:19PM Racism in health, extremism in prisons, light rail in Auckland, coronavirus misinformation and an ongoing housing crisis are among the priorities outlined to incoming ministers in hundreds of pages of documents released this morning. The Briefings to Incoming Ministers (BIM) were released on the B...

Monday, 14 December 2020, 2:17 pm News that that over $3 million was spent a single quarter alone in Lower Hutt between June and September on emergency housing special needs grants is just further confirmation that the Hutt housing crisis is getting worse, says Chris Bishop, National List MP based in Hutt South “This is a record new level of emergency housing spending in the Hutt. In March 2017 just under $200,000 was spent in a quarter on emergency housing special needs grants, which pay for people to stay in motels whilst waiting for social housing to become available. Since then the num...

They will be completely flattened in the next election. Oh look; two moons! by PocketAces | 12th Dec 20, 3:39pm 1607740790 There's only one party with any sort of chance actually gives a damn and that's the Greens, so if the labour party falls for ap them then so be it, the Nats will do nothing, ACT will do less than nothing Login or Register to post/report comments. by Hook | 12th Dec 20, 4:32pm 1607743962 BS to the Greens - their answer is more tax. That won't do shit to solve or alleviate the problem Login or Register to post/report comments....

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,...

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,” N...