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Housing MInister Chris Bishop sets 'long-term' price target of three to five times household incomes (www.rnz.co.nz)

submitted 9 months ago by Ilovethebomb to c/politics

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National have committed to keeping most of the density rules they agreed to with Labour, with the tweak of giving councils a little more flexibility around where people can build up to three storeys. Overall a great move, and one that will hopefully have a downwards pressure on house prices.

They have also indicated they plan to build more state houses, as well.

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[–] BalpeenHammer 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

We all know it's not going to happen and we can safely presume all of his promises are hot air. As a right wing kook he should know better than anybody else that a government trying to determine prices in the markeplace is a doomed venture.

Aside from that apparently he doesn't realise that the councils already have the flexibility to let people build whatever they want but they don't do it because the public doesn't want it. Nobody wants an apartment complex in their neighbourhood and very few people want to live in a tiny apartment in a three story building with no garden and no parking.

I honestly can't decide whether they are morons or just evil but maybe they are both. David Seymour is at least a smart and evil person, these guys are just something else.

[–] Xcf456 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Government already determines prices in the housing market through policies that limit supply, like restrictive zoning, and demand through preferential tax treatment, first home buyer subsidies etc.

I'm not convinced no one wants density. Councils are ridiculously beholden to a small group of well-housed nimbys, and the density we do get is the worst of both worlds as a result. Small and far from amenities, worst of both worlds.

[–] BalpeenHammer 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Government already determines prices in the housing market through policies that limit supply, like restrictive zoning, and demand through preferential tax treatment, first home buyer subsidies etc.

Zoning is done by the local councils. Taxes and subsidies etc do have an effect but they are not the kinds of direct interventions that the right wing government is pushing. Certainly they didn't make concrete promised on house prices.

[–] Xcf456 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Zoning is done by local councils but central government sets the entire framework for how they go about that, and can set national direction and standards to shape it

[–] BalpeenHammer 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Zoning is done by local councils but central government sets the entire framework for how they go about that, and can set national direction and standards to shape it

Do go on. I am anxious to hear about this.