"284,000 empty homes."
#DebbieNgarewaPacker, 2025
"That's two homes per every homeless person in this country."
#RawiriWaititi, 2025
#podcasts#BlindfishMedia #BigHairyNews #BHN#TPM#TePātiMāori #housing#HousingCrisis
In 2021, 42% of low-income households paid more than 50% of their income for #housing;
https://www.hud.govt.nz/stats-and-insights/homelessness-outlook/homelessness-indicators
But the real problem is landlording not being profitable enough;
"It's a classic oversupply, we added so many houses to the market with the Ardern [government's] incentives, that we have too many homes and renters have so many options."
#SteveGoodey, 2025
https://www.1news.co.nz/2025/04/23/pain-for-property-investors-as-rental-listing-levels-hit-high/
#HatTip to Hayden Donnell of RNZ MediaWatch for highlighting this story
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=cf3970fc-9508-4412-a6da-c98a0a64a102
"NZ has had a housing shortage for so long, it has fostered a cohort of entitled property owners and landlords whose businesses can't survive normal market conditions, in which occupants and tenants have a modicum of choice. We need to weed these businesses out."
Stu Donovan, quoted by Hayden Donnell, 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=cf3970fc-9508-4412-a6da-c98a0a64a102
In 2021, 42% of low-income households paid more than 50% of their income for #housing;
https://www.hud.govt.nz/stats-and-insights/homelessness-outlook/homelessness-indicators
But the real problem is landlording not being profitable enough;
"It's a classic oversupply, we added so many houses to the market with the Ardern [government's] incentives, that we have too many homes and renters have so many options."
#SteveGoodey, 2025
https://www.1news.co.nz/2025/04/23/pain-for-property-investors-as-rental-listing-levels-hit-high/
#HatTip to Hayden Donnell of RNZ MediaWatch for highlighting this story
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=cf3970fc-9508-4412-a6da-c98a0a64a102