Green Party's pledge to renters: What you need to know
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The Green Party have launched their pre-election housing policy with promises 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”.

  • Dave@lemmy.nzM
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    1 year ago

    But shouldn’t the goal be to have less people renting and more people owning?

    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?