HOUSING

While politicians and others continue playing the house monopoly game, both main parties agree that supply is one of the problems.

What they do not want to talk about, is that there has been an ongoing oversupply of immigrants or any realistic measures to deal with this, allowing it to all focus on Auckland.

That, of course, is part of the plan to help create the illusory ‘‘super city.’’

Secondly, as others have pointed out, the two parties also want to avoid taking measures to lower house values, because that would be very unpopular with those who are busy cashing in on the bonanza.

Mr Key, of course, (who denied any housing crisis for a long time) continues to blame everyone else and chastises them for not fixing the problem.

It’s the Councils fault because they haven’t made enough land available and because its planning system was far too slow, even although it was required to follow the law. More recently, he accused the Reserve Bank of not doing the right things (even although, by law) they are supposed to use their own expertise, free from government heavying. Don’t expect politicians to change any time soon!

Tony Holman

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