I agree to an extent. NZ residential rental reform should have been part of a comprehensive raft of housing reforms, extending from taxation to social housing provision. Just concentrating on one or two aspects creates other shortcomings.
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By replying does this mean I'm a 'Labourite'?
I'm not - but I'm not sure what the issue is as there is no outcome to date.
Nats should hammer them on this, but at the same time provide what they would do. Do they have an answer?
From what I read here it seems a cut and dried issue but, as usual, the reality is a bit more nuanced.
Nats’ view has been well articulated - it’s a commercial dispute between private landowners and they must sort it out without taxpayers’ funds being used to victimise private land owners.
Should have been nipped in the bud day one instead of the pandering which led to the impasse.
I wonder if Judith Collins would end up crushing the occupation by sending in the police, like a previous National PM did with the occupation of Bastion Point.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-k...-notice-served
First point of dispute is between the Te Kawerau a Maki iwi tribal authority & the competing mana whenua protestors.
Let them sort it out first - there's the Maori land court for that purpose.
Or is the Labour government saying that the Maori land court is useless?
Big difference between Bastion Pt & Ihumatao.
Bastion Pt was Crown Land which that economic buffoon Muldoon wanted to sell off for private residential development (in which case, ownership passed to private hands and could not be contested ever again).
Ihumatao is private land. And private land ownership is sacrosanct in law in NZ - or was until Cindy decided to stick her nose in.
That raft is what the current government thought they were doing. For the two areas you mention - housing related tax (more $ for the government so fewer $ for property owners >> higher rents), social housing (we told people to apply, and they did). So more tax money in = more to spend on taxpayer subsidised housing. Thanks taxpayers.
Is that too simplistic?