I’ve been quite sceptical that either side of politics – whichever group of parties won the election – would address the fundamental distortions that have rendered urban land and houses so expensive. After all, successive National and Labour-led governments had enabled us to get, and overseen us actually getting, into this mess. And for anyone looking to the minor parties, New Zealand First had previously been part of, or supported, governments of both stripes, and the Greens – with a taste for rapid population growth and restrictive planning laws – didn’t seem any more hopeful. Neither the Prime Minister nor the Leader of Opposition, before or after the election, seemed interested in seeing lower house prices.
An optimistic supporter of the Labour Party yesterday put it to me – it was Reformation Day , and the 500th anniversary of Luther nailing his theses to the door of the church…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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