On Wed, 25 May 2016 14:04:32 +1200, Allistar <
me@hiddenaddress.com>
wrote:
Rich80105 wrote:
National has clearly run out of ideas for fixing the housing crisis -
paying landlords to subsidise rents is still leaving rent out of reach
for many families, and lending to beneficiaries is costing billions
with much of it unrecoverable - but now business has come up with a
bold new plan:
"The option of large scale government-built housing should be put back
on the table, a business lobbyist says."
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/business/304608/big-govt-house-build-'needed'-for-auckland
Wealth redistribution is not the answer.
I do think that the number of people entering the country to live >specifically in Auckland has a lot to do with the housing issue as that puts >a huge pressure on demand. Perhaps the points system the immigration system >uses should take points away if the people intend on living in Auckland.
Simple get-around to fiddle that one!
They also note that gridlock on Auckland's roads is another headache,
hindering growth. Perhaps business will suggest we do what most other
large cities have done and rely a bit more on rail .
Globally, mass transit systems are two a-penny. They are part and
parcel of any high-productivity economy where decades of vision,
planning and strategy all work together in unison. Here? Never
happen - except possibly in some half-hearted way - in a country that
has little in the way of anything approaching a substantial economy to
fund such projects, other than a lone and declining low-value export
commodity and the low-value, low-wage servicing of ephemeral
rubbernecking holidaymakers.
The solution to both issues is for people to not want to live in Auckland.
So how do you invent, let alone implement, a national solution based
on the core requirement for people **not** to want to do something?
Kindly describe.
sure as hell don't which is why I shifted out 10 years ago. Not one day goes >by that I regret doing it.
Quite so. You wisely escaped an ever-growing bugger's muddle of a
"city" that, with its stridently shameless rorting culture, in no way
could ever be considered "world class," much as its callow airhead blandishments may otherwise megaphone.
Too late by **decades,** there is now **no** cure for Auckland nor can
there be any redemption across the wider nation, since it takes
significantly more than greed and selfishness to build both a world
class city and a powerful national economy.
But, will selfish, greedy Aucklanders ever wake up to these manifest
and inconvenient truths, I wonder?
Mmmm....wise not to hold your breath.
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