(05-02-2022, 05:38 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: Changes to rental tenancies for state housing.Great response -so which one of those things improved rents?  Decreased rents?
The rent freeze during the first lockdown, and the emergency housing of homeless during that period.
The biggest building programme in modern history.
The current focus on tenancies and rentals with a view to improving out comes for all.
Let's hope it gets real.
AND don't fall for the biggest lie - because they have built around 3500 new state houses  - 2500 planned and consented under the last government.
But your last comment is spot on
(05-02-2022, 05:38 PM)king1 Wrote:Ah I never said on their own did I?(05-02-2022, 05:22 PM)Wainuiguy Wrote: OK so please feel free to point out what policies Labour has initiated that helped decrease or even stabilize rents in the last 5 years.   One will do.The rent and tenancy termination freeze during covid...  
The housing crisis was decades in the making and will take many many years to fix.  Ultimately the only solution is to build more houses or reduce the population...  The latter isn't practical so we must build more houses - labour policies around reforming the RMA, changes to the Residential Tenancies Act, healthy homes requirements etc help but obviously more houses are needed and they don't get built overnight...
Now, you were about to tell us why you believe Labour solely created the housing crisis all on their ownsome
However their policies over the last 5 years have heavily seen rents increase.  Their building scheme,  the right idea, was so badly conceived and implemented it was never going to work. Na $3billion failure.
As for the RMA shame they didn't come in to assist National in the changes they wanted to make, very similar to the ones they are proposing now.  That was 7 years ago.