There was nothing positive to be said about the previous Labour-led government’s approach to housing and house prices. There is nothing positive to be said about the current National-led government’s approach. The rhetoric while they were in Opposition had been encouraging. The substance of reform has been almost non-existent, all the while cloaked in fairly brazen, even offensive, rhetoric from both Prime Ministers (Key and English) suggesting that it was all a mark of success, a quality problem, and so on, along with suggestions that the government’s approach was working. By that standard, I hope I don’t live to see a failed housing policy.
There have been some hopes, in some circles, that the Labour Party, if they were to lead a new government after this year’s election, might be different. Their housing spokesman seems pretty impressive, and seems to understand the issues. In a no doubt mutually beneficial move, he and Oliver Hartwich…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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