The Labour Party is not mentioning its plan to abolish the Auckland Metropolitan boundary is much as they used to in this campaign, if at all
The centrepieces of the two weekend TV current affairs shows were political debates: The Nation had Phil Twyford and Amy Adams on housing, and Q&A had Grant Robertson and Steven Joyce on the economy more generally (but with a large chunk on housing). I only saw the Q&A debate, but I have glanced through the transcript of Twyford/Adams.
In the course of his debate, Phil Twyford was asked how much house prices should be relative to income. His response was excellent
Twyford: Ideally, they should be three times. If we had a housing market that was working properly, your housing would be— the median price would be about three to four times the median household income.
Grant Robertson repeated those sorts of numbers in his exchange with Steven Joyce. It was good, clear, encouraging stuff. A reminder of just how totally out of whack things are…
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