The Greens are looking to introduce changes to the rental market to “give everyone in New Zealand a healthy home to live in”.
The Greens are looking to introduce changes to the rental market to “give everyone in New Zealand a healthy home to live in”.
oooo so close Greens, so close.
This still does nothing to curb speculation on the housing market which is driving out of control prices and inflation.
The costs for housing improvements will be easily carried by the conglomerates owning tens or hundreds of houses, but small investors with one or two properties may be forced to sell because they won’t be able to afford to be compliant, thus providing more stock for the large whales to buy, completing the straight line of more wealth to the already wealthy.
I see it’s been offset by the basic income there, so you’re appealing to the desperate lower class, while screwing over the middle to feed the top.
Should we have healthy homes? Yes. But shouldn’t the goal be to have less people renting and more people owning?
One policy can’t do everything, and this is at least better than other platforms. At least it incentives improving housing stock, which the current system does not. Of course we still desperately need a capitol gains/wealth tax and a reform of our tax brackets to being them out of the 90s.
Should it? If housing was structured a little different so owning a house wasn’t partaking in speculation but the house was simply a place live, and rental laws allowed reasonable use of that property by tenants, and there was ample housing supply, then is there a compelling reason for us to push for everyone to own a house? What wellbeing measurement would this help?