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The PM said she wanted to end homelessness. Since she took office the number of people assessed as being in urgent need of housing has increased by a massive 512%.

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mandk

This is, without doubt, a lagged effect of 9 years of neglect //
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June 1, 2022 7:03am
- jgw739
  
  Exacerbated by Five Years of Failure
  
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  June 1, 2022 7:39am
  - I will not surrender
    
    I think you meant 5 years of kindness.
    
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    June 1, 2022 9:41am
    - Paulus
      
      Fault of the nasty unkind National Party.
      
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      June 1, 2022 2:11pm
- Mobile Michael
  
  When you manage people, you know there will be disappointing outcomes from time to time. What happens next is telling.
  
  There are employees who take responsibility for any failures, create/adjust plans to resolve the cause, and then execute them. These are the valuable employees.
  
  Then there are employees who cover-up, blame others, and can’t be found when the brown stuff hits the rotating air distributor. Show them the door.
  
  Labour constantly blaming National is what sort of behaviour?
  
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  June 1, 2022 8:01am
  - bjools
    
    AAHH…I see only one flaw in your logic.
    “…there are employees who cover-up, blame others, and can’t be found when the brown stuff hits the rotating air distributor. Show them the door.”
    They (the govt.) have set themselves up as, and see themselves as, YOUR highers and betters…. anything but employees.
    More like royalty
    we say…you do
    we are never at fault
    any blame, will be punished and that punishment will be mitigated against the selected whipping boy.
    Previous govt.
    media
    misinformation purveyors.
    anyone but them.
    
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    June 1, 2022 9:51am
- patreon_36178434
  
  There’s a simpler answer…..
  In NZ around 280,000 low income people rent. Of these approximately 210,000 rent from the private sector and 70,000 from the state.
  So if you scare 10% of private sector landlords out of the market, the state sector has to find another 21,000 accommodation units, ie it needs to go up from 70,000 to 91,000,
  Even Helen (eventually) understood this
  But just look at the measures this Government has taken to scare private sector landlords away……..
  
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  June 1, 2022 9:20am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Clint Smith is so happy with the current gummit. That is all it matters.
  
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  June 1, 2022 12:05pm
The Other Enoch

Where is John Campbell on this? When the Nats were in power and homelessness was around 4,000, we had Campbell’s face dancing across the screen weeping hubristic tears of empathy.

So, if you can bring yourself to reading a blog such as this John, is it only a problem when we have a responsible, adult, government in control?
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June 1, 2022 7:08am
- artemisia
  
  Mr Campbell was really concerned about people and especially children, living in cars. Been a good while since even a passing mention of these households, so does that mean they are no longer in cars? Maybe in nice, warm and cheap ‘transitional’ housing. Just how ‘transitional’ is it really with 27,234 households on the social housing waiting list. Emphasis on ‘waiting’?
  
  Meanwhile more than enough rental vacancies advertised every day to house all those in motels etc.
  
  Also meanwhile, the current government has increased rental costs, compliance, risks and complexities bigly. The risks mean landlords are seriously picky these days, some selling up and importantly not buying new builds. The complexities and risks often mean an extra 10% or more on the rent to pay for property managers.
  
  The number of new builds advertised on Trademe up nearly 70% this year so far. Where are the buyers, and more importantly, how desperate are developers?
  
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  June 1, 2022 7:27am
- graham
  
  I understand your reasoning, but I have to say … I’m not missing John Campbell’s absence from our TV screens at all.
  
  In early April it was announced that he was leaving “Breakfast” to be TVNZ’s chief correspondent. It was ~~threatened~~ announced that he would be telling stories across TVNZ’s news and current affairs shows, on television and digital. As SWMBO insists on watching One News at Six, I have been living in dread of seeing Campbell fronting the news – he’s appeared several times previously, and seems utterly incapable of understanding that a news presenter should be restrained and under-stated. He waves his hands around and seems to regress back to when he was fronting Campbell Live.
  
  So I have been quite relieved that so far I haven’t seen him once.
  
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  June 1, 2022 7:32am
  - RoboRob
    
    Perhaps there is something more to this story too. Is TVNZ covering up something around Campbell in the same way that they did for his replacement?
    
    I to do not miss him.
    
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    June 1, 2022 9:14am
- Blog-aholic
  
  He may not have been a leftist shill once upon a time.
  But, perception is nine thenths of reality and when one stays silent about an issue that one was once so vocal of then what changes?
  When a government changes then a shill you become….
  
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  June 1, 2022 7:40am
  - RoboRob
    
    Clearly a partisan actor.
    
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    June 1, 2022 9:15am
- Prince
  
  Ditto Nigel Latta
  
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  June 1, 2022 8:41am
Maxx

It’s quite clear what the priorities have been; millions on a cycle bridge that doesn’t eventuate.

If only rhetoric solved problems, Jacinda would live up to the hype of her acolytes.
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June 1, 2022 7:09am
Tony Stuart

In late 2017, the Housing Minister Phil Twyford stood in the House, and boldly stated that in six months time, Labour wouldn’t be spending $80,000 per day to house people in motels.

That’s one promise Twyford kept. Six months later the spend had grown to well over $80,000 per day, and now it’s somewhere in the region of $1.1 million per day. That’s quite a spectacular achievement, given in the same time period, the number of people on the state housing waiting list has grown more than fivefold.
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June 1, 2022 7:20am
- RightFirstTime
  
  It is easier to comprehend how the government can be spending around $1,100,000.00 per day of taxpayer’s money on motel accommodation when you consider the fact that the government pays the motel operators up to four times the market rate for the accommodation they provide.
  
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  June 1, 2022 7:33am
  - Paulus
    
    Understand in Rotorua some Motels have long term contracts – 10 years.
    What an earner !
    
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    June 1, 2022 9:46am
- In Vino Veritas
  
  But Tony, Phil Twyford was never an intellectual giant, more an intellectual pygmy, so it should be no surprise that he is completely inept.
  
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  June 1, 2022 7:38am
- jgw739
  
  Does that $1.1m include the cost of repairs to said motels/hotels?
  
  Does it include the loss of tourism money for towns like Rotorua that now have little accommodation for PAYING guests?
  
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  June 1, 2022 7:43am
Pongo

And her genius solution is to make provision of rentals uneconomic
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June 1, 2022 7:24am
peterwn

Why should Labour worry about them? They are unlikely to be potential National or ACT voters. Far better to concentrate on the middle ground. Put the blowtorch on the providers of emergency accommodation as Steve Chadwick’s (former Labour MP) council is doing.
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June 1, 2022 7:26am
In Vino Veritas

Ardern says “I want to end homelessness”. Ardern does: collects inflated salary for her abilities, has mental health days off work because she isn’t up to the job (and has a boi boi, look at my boi boi!!), has other peoples money flow like water through Government Departments that achieve fuck all, takes jollies overseas to network for her next job where she will continue her history of being an abject failure and spend a chunk of her time doing repeated Womans Weekly photo shoots.
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June 1, 2022 7:36am
- Nickc2
  
  It sounds like you are not a fan of our dear leader? //
  
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  June 1, 2022 7:59am
  - Prince
    
    Isn’t that hate speech now ?
    
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    June 1, 2022 8:43am
  - In Vino Veritas
    
    I am ambivalent toward her as a person, as I do not know her (bar for a fleeting conversation with her years ago, before she was an MP, when I concluded she was a foolish, childlike political ideologue) but have (1) no respect for her leadership abilities (as they are limited at best), (2) Find her in her role as PM, to be consistently dishonest, (3) Believe that she is not intellectually up to the job she is in, (4) Believe that she is not mentally up to the job she is in and (5) Despise her hard left politics (particularly those of division).
    
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    June 1, 2022 9:09am
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      (6) doesn’t put in the hard work necessary to succeed in the PM role
      
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      June 1, 2022 7:21pm
NK

Do you think Ardern mentioned this to Biden when they met??
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June 1, 2022 7:37am
- cmm
  
  Perhaps as well as advising on gun control she can also help them sort out Skid Row.
  
  Alternatively, she might be doing a trade: NZ gun control for USA and she learns how to build Skid Row in Auckland.
  
  But with 28000 homeless we’d need 5 Skid Rows.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skid_Row,_Los_Angeles
  
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  June 1, 2022 7:44am
- pdm
  
  Was Biden even awake while Ardern was with him?
  
  Answer: Probably yes – after all who could sleep with that voice droning in ones ear and continually being hit by the waving arms.
  
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  June 1, 2022 7:46am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    Biden made some opening comments about her leadership on climate, gun control etc. He even talked about the “Christchurch call” thing. He had cards in his hand. I doubt he knew anything about her before given those cards.
    
    Also Jacinda’s fashion sense worked again. She was wearing a dress an overcoat. It looked very odd.
    
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    June 1, 2022 8:00am
    - pdm
      
      BY – Ardern, odd and a failure with dress sense go together.
      
      Just like her many failures as a leader.
      
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      June 1, 2022 8:10am
    - RoboRob
      
      How did that Christchurch call go? Gun shootings down, social media posts about them down? Nope, just a great PR line for Jacinda.
      
      Same with the gun buyback scheme. More violent gun crime than before.
      
      Jacinda clearly the person to talk to around gun crime, if you want more that is.
      
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      June 1, 2022 9:20am
    - RoboRob
      
      Biden hardly knows who the people that work for him are let alone who the strangely dressed woman for a tin pot island in the Pacific is. Hopefully someone video taped Matlock for him.
      
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      June 1, 2022 9:22am
  - Nickc2
    
    I saw the two of them sitting there clutching their preprepared and officially approved questions and answers so why travel all that way and at such expense when a Zoom Conference or series of E-mails would achieve the same or better result.
    IMO. she was invited to the US by some Shock Jock to pad out time on his TV Show so she scrambled Air Force 1.5 and took her own Cheer Squad with her.
    Biden was merely an opportune stage prop for the visit.
    
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    June 1, 2022 8:27am
- ClanMcleod
  
  I can’t bear to think how the conversation went between meaningless word salad Brenda and dementia addled Brandon. I shudder at the thought of trying to understand the waffle.
  
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  June 1, 2022 9:24am
- Paulus
  
  Don’t think Sleepy Joe understood what she was saying
  But don’t worry Joe – we don’t either.
  
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  June 1, 2022 9:49am
Ehlana

Ah, but you see, if all those people are being housed at taxpayer expense in motels, they are not homeless. In urgent need of housing is a different category entirely!

Once again, we two-legs-bad have misunderstood dear Leader.
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June 1, 2022 7:39am
- bjools
  
  Every failure, is just divided into 2 and relabeled.
  eg
  Unemployment
  becomes
  Unemployed and
  “job seekers”
  
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  June 1, 2022 8:19am
cmm

Far more worrying is the longer term consequences of the fact that 40% of kids wag school and more are sufficiently disengaged that, overall, over 50% are effectively not going to school.

The government definition of attending school regularly is shocking in itself: attending 90% of the time is classed as regular attendance.

That means you can wag half a day a week and still be considered gold star attendance material.

That 10% allowance “… acknowledges that sometimes students are unable to attend for unavoidable reasons, such as illness.”

Rubbish! Very, very few kids are sick 10% of the time.

In my 12 years at school I missed 3 days when I broke my leg (age 6) and 1 week when I got mumps (age 17). I suspect most kids are sicker than that, but 10% of the time seems a stretch.
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June 1, 2022 7:41am
- Benedict Yu
  
  I agree. When I was at school, not going would be inconceivable. I can still remember the times I was not at school. I got hepatitis when I was about 8. I broke my leg when I was a teen. Apart from that I might have had 2 or 3 days off per year with other illness.
  
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  June 1, 2022 7:55am
  - David Garrett
    
    Bene: Ah yes, but you are Chinese Sir, and not one of the Special People, or a honkey. As you of course know, the Chinese have a rather different attitude to education.
    
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    June 1, 2022 11:31am
- Pavel
  
  I have two young kids in school, years 1 and 2. I raised them in an environment where they enjoy learning. Both kids are top of their class and it is not because they are above average but because all the other kids are below. Every newsletter we get has a portion explaining the importance of attendance as so so many kids have days off for silly things. Often the neighbour’s kids are not at the bus stop because the whole family is still asleep. My kids and one other are the only ones who get homework as the school gave up because no other kids do it. I went to the school a couple of weeks ago and the teacher, who started in November, said I’m the first parent she has met since starting her job. This is a disaster in the making. The amount of teens who have dropped out of school and spend their days smoking bongs and drinking bourbon and cola is mind blowing. Life is pretty damn hard as it is but in 20 years time anyone without an education or amazing entrepreneurial skills is doomed. It amazes me that parents don’t see this. This should be classed as a national crisis. We already don’t produce enough doctors, engineers, accountants, nurses etc and its only going to get worse. This should be seen as a national security issue and treated as such. Without education our society is doomed to go down a 3rd world route real quick and were are definitely heading that way with the way things are going.
  
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  June 1, 2022 8:16am
  - stiff cheese
    
    You are right: we don’t produce enough DOCTORS. There were two news items on this in recent weeks.
    
    The first item said we have 76 GPs per 100,000 persons; Australia has 120.
    The second report gave the numbers 74 and 100, respectively.
    
    So either way we are worse than Australia; and consider this: aren’t we in second place for Obesity just below the U.S.?
    How do we expect to cope with fewer GPs that Australia?
    
    Not surprisingly, one of the interviewees said it takes 3-6 weeks to get an appointment in NZ !?!
    We need 33-50% more GPs to be on a par with across the Tasman — maybe more because I don’t believe we’re healthier as a group.
    
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    June 1, 2022 12:14pm
- vant
  
  In the last 2 years it has been quite hard for kids not to miss a few days of school. A little cough, a little sniffle or a little temp and you have to stay home until the symptoms disappear. I hope this madness will stop soon.
  
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  June 1, 2022 8:48am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    It will stop when people stop complying. Don’t mask up, don’t test, don’t “vaccinate” (poison yourself). Don’t play the game and the game ends. Simple.
    
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    June 1, 2022 9:26am
- RoboRob
  
  Agree, but my experience with two high school boys is that the school systems are incapable of correctly monitoring attendance . My kids have near perfect attendance however get marked as not present for a single class from time to time. One of them is on 92% attendance. No neither are bunking classes:)
  
  For example, popping out for a class photo can get you as absent depending on timing/teacher.
  
  There are plenty of kids that are partially attending but that 10% covers the school/teacher failures.
  
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  June 1, 2022 9:31am
agent

Fixed quite easily, just reverse all laws bought into attack private rentals and give tenants rights to destroy properties with little to no consequences. National started it by removing depreciation and lvr.

Create an over -supply of private rentals, more and cheaper rents. It is wrong to assume a typical zero sum game that private rentals and homeowners are entirely competitive. It is two separate forms of capital to increase market supply restricted by council and govt rules.

This isn’t actually that hard a problem to solve but politicians didn’t like some people making capital gains out of the rules around building houses and the excessive money printing they did. So made problem even worse.
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June 1, 2022 7:48am
- RoboRob
  
  The removal of cold uninsulated rental houses had the effect of removing the cheap rental market. Those rentals served a purpose. I remember going to crowded student flats for partys. They were not flash but dry and secure. My importantly they were affordable.
  
  Much more expensive rentals was always the outcome of labours rental policies. Yet renters voted in mass for Labour, attracted by the warmer dryer homes promised. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
  
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  June 1, 2022 9:44am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    The same people who think that if inner city heritage housing is torn down then miraculously the apartments that replace them will be “affordable”.
    
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    June 1, 2022 7:25pm
- Paulus
  
  Too late – second or so property owner letting them out have sold up bought a super campervan and quit and will never return.
  That’s socialism for you.
  
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  June 1, 2022 9:52am
Benedict Yu

It is such a mess it will be difficult for an incoming government to fix. The government is building and refurbishing state houses as fast as it can. The cost is enormous. If you are lucky enough to get a new one it is like winning the lottery because they are nice little houses. But this is not going to even dent the problem.

Maybe they need to tender for massive modular housing from China.

BTW back in Kàinga Ora land, my associate went to do a routine inspection yesterday. She could not get into the property. The house was surrounded by a high fence. There was also a portacom unit on the property. And two massive hostile dogs 🐶😩.

Of course you would think the police would be called and these people evicted. But no. They will be asked to explain what they have done and to remedy the situation. If they refuse a process to evict them could take several months.
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June 1, 2022 7:49am
- cmm
  
  “The government is building and refurbishing state houses as fast as it can.”
  
  Really?
  
  In February or so, two old but adequate buildings (4 dwellings) were demolished on 148-154 Graham’s Road in Chch. The site was cleared in March and there has been no building activity for at least 2 months.
  
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  June 1, 2022 8:02am
  - bjools
    
    No Gib board?
    
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    June 1, 2022 8:05am
    - Jack5
      
      From Housing New Zealand Ltd’s 2021 annual report:
      
      – At June 30, 2021 Housing New Zealand liabilities included $5.49 billion in market bonds, and another $150 million in short-term “market paper”. About $1.3 billion of loans from the Government took non-current borrowing to $6.8 billion.
      
      – Housing NZ managed 65,779 rental properties at that balance date.
      
      – During the June 2021 year it received $409 million in rent from tenants and $1.034 billion in income-related rent subsidy.
      
      – In the year, $1.4 billion of cash outflow went to buying property to rent.
      
      – Maori get first rights of refusal to buy some Kainga Ora property. Where Maori have first rights of refusal over land, Housing NZ must give Maori the right to carry out development on the land or approve development by Housing NZ.
      
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      June 1, 2022 2:48pm
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        $38B spend over the next decade, is what I heard
        
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        June 1, 2022 7:27pm
  - Benedict Yu
    
    Yes really. February was not long ago. They will be building townhouses on that site.
    
    KO is borrowing billions. They issue bonds. Marketed as wellbeing bonds. They are snapped up in minutes offshore because they pay more than government bonds.
    
    The bonds are issued by a company owned by KO. “Housing New Zealand Limited”. No mention of KO. I guess because Chinese investors would have no idea what Kàinga Ora means. 😂
    
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    June 1, 2022 8:22am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    15 new dwellings are going up on that site
    
    https://kaingaora.govt.nz › Gr…PDF
    10th November 2021 Dear Resident New homes coming to 148-156 Grahams …
    
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    June 1, 2022 8:25am
fightingtemeraire

Jacinda is honored by Harvard and they didn’t due due diligence and she was lauded in the US on a talk show that has 2.5 million viewers in a country of 350 million. Less than 1% of the viewing public,
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June 1, 2022 7:56am
bjools

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/election/2017/10/homelessness-proves-capitalism-is-a-blatant-failure-jacinda-ardern.html
Ardern describes her own failure.
Tell me Jacinda, now that it is WORSE by a factor of 5, what adjectives should we use now?
From the article.
“”If you have hundreds of thousands of children living in homes without enough to survive, that’s a blatant failure. What else could you describe it as?”

“Every year there will be a report, as part of the Public Finance Act, on how much progress we have made.”
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June 1, 2022 8:04am
Musings

She did end homelessness….. by cramming them in to Motels/Hotels. See, job done!
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June 1, 2022 8:31am
Ultima

Its Labour’s breeding ground for ram raiders.
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June 1, 2022 8:36am
Thought Criminal

I fail to see how this is anything other than a win for Labour.

Every single person in “free” state accommodation is a guaranteed labour voter.
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June 1, 2022 8:39am
- In Vino Veritas
  
  They always were a guaranteed Labour voter Criminal. So there is no change. The hilarious thing is that they all end up worse off under a Labour Government. And they keep voting for them. Says it all really.
  
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  June 1, 2022 9:14am
ClanMcleod

That graph perfectly depicts the direction of NZ under Ardern. She has destroyed the country.
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June 1, 2022 9:33am
- ISeeRed
  
  Destroyed the country? Don’t be ridiculous. There’s still plenty left to destroy!
  
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