He made a thing about earning a three figure salary yet not being able to buy a home. Sure that is a plight affecting many people in contemporary NZ. Even those earning above average incomes find it difficult - after income tax, iiving expenses and GST to save and buy and acquire a suitable property to live in.
However Seymour is also actually a beneficiary of his grandparent's and parent's trusts. Those trusts own properties which will probably have tax-free gains when realised or transferred to beneficiaries.
Coincidentally, Seymour is also against a capital gains tax - and was against extending the real estate bright line.
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/politics/...tealth-seymour
Maybe Seymour will now make a thing about how being born into a family, with real estate interests settled in trust structures, in Nineteenth Century Victorian Britain - oops I mean in present day NZ - is the best way to secure an interest in residential property in NZ.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/act-leader-david-seymours-embarrassment-cant-afford-to-buy-guy-has-an-interest-in-three-properties/H6PC3IOARTNTLTIKGBZP3NN34IAct leader David Seymour's embarrassment: 'Can't afford to buy' guy has an interest in three properties