John Campbell slams Poto Williams for lack of progress on home affordability

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Changes to rental tenancies for state housing.

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.

Agreed - the building programme is the most important - & lets not forget that a Kiwi govt did once set about building state houses, at a time when housing conditions were dire & many lived in slums.  Homes in which people could bring up their families were seen as of vital importance then & should be again.
Finances back then were also tight - the 30's depression was all over the world -  but somehow, we did it, & we need to again.



http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=11346757



Then Minister of Housing Walter Nash told New Zealand it could not prosper or progress with a population that "lack[s] the conditions necessary for a 'home' and 'home life', in the best and fullest meaning of those words".