Significant investment in social and affordable housing is crucial to solving New Zealand’s housing crisis and ending homelessness, a new report says.
The report by Community Housing Aotearoa warns homelessness has reached its highest level ever, with a shortage of affordable housing compounding the problem.
Chief executive Paul Gilberd said New Zealand had the “programmes and the capacity” to end homelessness if there was political will to do so.
“We can solve it as a nation here in New Zealand. It really is a political choice,” he said.
So organisations like the Taxpayers Union already register as a political organisation so they can run election ads and that sort of thing. I wonder if declaring who they represent would work, I suspect they would just say they represent the average tax payer even though that’s not true at all.
Are there other countries that have properly solved this problem? I suspect not since (before this government) we were ranked high on the low corruption list, and we have this problem.