Peter Cooney On Why Affordable Housing May Never Happen In New Zealand
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 พ.ย. 2024
- Michael Laws talks to Peter Cooney about why affordable housing may never happen in New Zealand.
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Great interview this is the kind of thing our government should be focusing on
What you people have to understand is that the powers that be have no interest in reducing the cost of housing, why would they, why would anyone in authority want to build and sell 3 houses and sell for 333,000 each when supply and demand tells you if you only build 1 house you can sell it for a million. Modern business is about creating scarcity to gain monopolistic control.
Ive always said that our population is too small to get economies of scale.
But the government could get rid of a lot of costs as Mr Cooney says
Who really ants to live in a high rise apartment.
Or a small box with no parking.
💯 anyone who lived in a small town knows the gig...
Damn good interview.
Consents are taking longer because, industry has the tendency to sue each other and the council if things go wrong. Detailed analysis review takes time. Even 90 days is less in my opinion. With ever changing seismic code updates, in couple of years we cant building anything.
No surprises with Peter Cooney comments. Like most of New Zealand's infrastructure woes, is the country's addiction to neoliberal 'she will be right' short term corporate, local and central government thinking and planning. If this country is serious about affordable housing, the building industry, local and central government needs to start embracing OSM (off site manufacturing) urban planning and development instead of the building industry slower 'hammer & nail' construction. Kiwbuild was based on OSM delivery but the various groups with the building industry lobbied the Labour government against OSM construction hence the situation we have now.
We should name these cities and shame them Michael. Wellington is a nightmare, everything is built on a cliff face and on one of the world’s most active fault lines.
However the Gumit keeps on recruiting people to work in Wellington! Let’s all live on a cliff face on a tectonic Fault line….just waiting to rumble.
Smart people should be able to live where they want to within reason. Many very smart people run their businesses out of Queenstown, Wānaka, Dunedin, Oamaru, Christchurch, Timaru…….not very one has to live in Wet Auckland or Windy Wellington!
Don't underestimate government stupidity as a cause of housing problems. The previous Labour government inherited a housing crisis no doubt about that, but according to one economist Labour turned the crisis into a catastrophe. It threw money at first home buyers when the housing market was already red hot. Then when those first home buyers bought over-priced houses they were faced with huge interest rate increases. Peter Cooney made some very good points about the unaffordability on housing. Also everytime governments interfere in housing they seems to add another layer of costs.
the banks too play a big part they are getting rich off it all
labour came in promising to decrease immigration to 12500 pa (still too much!) then they completely ignored that target & allowed huge numbers to continue to swamp us. so yeah, labour inherited the problem, but even though they knew what the problem was, they decided to exascerbate it anyway
Yeah they want us to be vulnerable they want to drive as much kiwis as possible out on to the streets so we're relying on the government for everything so they can have control and power of our destiny's 😢
Affordable housing is not a pipe dream! Let's go back to the what we did in the 50s. Again, the answer is simple, as follows! The Government releases large portions of it land to families such that they can build their own homes. The government puts in the infrastructure on it's own land and sells the plots to Kiwi Families for circa $150K per plot. Utilizing overseas materials, a family could build a simple family home for circa $300k. That is affordable housing! - Simple!
pff. just cancel immigration, that fixes the problem by taking away the cause
All we’re doing is subsidising housing for immigrants who will sell the property for a large profit after a couple of years and then bugger off back to their own country or Australia with the profit….I have seen this happen with kiwibuild.
@@mrspecialk1234 - the key is in the per-qualification process. Did this, or did this not work in the 50's?
@@constructionengineeringbui4102 Absolutely it worked in the 50’s, but it’s globally a different time now….I support what you’re saying but there certainly needs to be safe guards put in place to stop blatant exploitation of such a subsidised model.
Why don't we adopt the UK Affordable Housing model??? It works - simple! Kianga Ora is not the answer!
Classic builders, yea done a few jobs for these guys in Queenstown
Nations like japan with low immigration have low house prices
I want some body to give a price now of an average affordable house,why I ask they use this term openly,from what I see the building s that a being built around Auckland suburbs starts around 4 to 5 hundred thousand,so it’s no way the govt can say they are building affordable housing so stop lying about it.
I agree with you we have to pray and fasting, believe in Jesus Christ forgive and forget, love your enemies, and move on,well let's think of tomorrow generation, by looking at the beginning of the real Church of Jesus Christ, and we have to purely our hearts and minds, forthe comming of our Saviour Jesus Christ our bride we waiting for, let's be happy what we blessed with,and pray for peace and healing to whole Country, and move forward.