Election 2023 - Housing Policy
Act
Spokesperson:
Brooke van Velden
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policy here
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Brooke van Velden
- Restrict the right to object to neighbours who are directly affected by the project
- Allow neighbourhoods to vote to exempt themselves from many planning rules
- Create a new Planning Tribunal to determine compensation for affected neighbours who hold out from negotiations to loosen planning rules
- Reduce the need for consents when infrastructure projects use a Code of Practice to manage environmental effects, saving billions of dollars and reducing years of delay.
- Comprehensively overhaul Resource Management laws based on property rights.
- Shake up infrastructure funding, including sharing over a billion dollars of GST revenue with local councils based on their building consent activity and allowing targeted rates to fund infrastructure on new developments.
- Allow builders to opt out of the council building consent regime so that they can use more innovative techniques and materials to improve affordability and quality.
- Use building insurance as an alternative to building consent authorities.
- Use Codes of Practice to reduce the need for consents, saving time and money.
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Green Party
Spokesperson:
Marama Davidson
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policy here
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Marama Davidson
- Establish representative housing committees in all local communities that reflect both home-owners and renters, ensuring diversity of representation for minority or underserved groups.
- Housing is a social good and a basic right; all people should have access to secure, affordable and good quality housing.
- Develop a sustainable building strategy, which provides guidance and sets standards for building materials and performance based on life cycle analysis.
- Introduce measures to fairly tax housing and land wealth, such as a capital gains tax on all but the family home, to restrain house prices by limiting speculative investment in property.
- Ensure that tax, monetary and fiscal policy, and controls on banks incentivise productive investment, rather than speculation in property.
- Establish representative housing committees in all local communities that reflect both home-owners and renters, ensuring diversity of representation for minority or underserved groups.
- Introduce the clean power payment, which will help people cover the cost of upgrading their home to be well-insulated and heated by clean, green energy.
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Labour
Spokesperson:
Megan Woods
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policy here
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Megan Woods
- Up to $4,000 rebate to help New Zealanders install rooftop solar panels and battery to lower household power bills.
- Households could save up to 50 per cent on bills or $850 annually.
- $20 million boost for energy projects in local communities.
- 1000 Kāinga Ora homes a year to be fitted with solar panels, reducing tenants power bills.
- Continuing to lower emissions and make energy cheaper for all New Zealanders.
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National
Spokesperson:
Chris Bishop
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policy here
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Chris Bishop
- Councils in major towns and cities will be required to zone land for 30 years worth of housing demand immediately.
- The Infrastructure Funding and Financing Act will be reformed to reduce red tape for developers to fund infrastructure.
- Introduce a $1 billion fund for Build-for-Growth incentive payments for councils that deliver more new housing.
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New Zealand First
Spokesperson:
Winston Peters
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policy here
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Winston Peters
- Encourage direct and long-term government participation in the housing market by establishing a Housing Commission to ensure a non-political approach in solving New Zealand’s housing issues.
- Continue to encourage the use of New Zealand expertise in prefabricated houses.
- Encourage private investment in high quality rental housing through options such as the tax system.
- Continue to build more social housing.
- Ensure the Resource Management Act is responsive to the needs of housing initiatives and not restricted by bureaucracy.
- Provide low cost government funding to local authorities for new elderly persons housing and public rental housing projects through which long term 2% loan finance would be made available.
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TOP
Spokesperson:
Damian Sycamore
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policy here
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Damian Sycamore
- Removing the current Bright Line Test and allowing tax deductibility of interest for landlords, which is replaced by the Land Value Tax.
- Requiring a deposit of 100% of the value of an existing home when purchased for investment purposes. This ensures property investors don’t just use the value of an existing home to purchase another (reducing property speculation).
- Returning the GST on new residential builds back to local councils to fund infrastructure development.
- Clearing the public housing waiting list via the establishment of a $3 billion development fund for Community Housing Associations.
- Supporting urban densification for central cities and transit nodes. Councils will be required to demonstrate that they have enough land zoned for new residential housing in line with the NPS-UD and MDRS.
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Te Pāti Māori
Spokesperson:
Debbie Ngarewa-Packer
Rawiri Waititi
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policy here
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Debbie Ngarewa-Packer
Rawiri Waititi
- Place a 2% tax on the capital value of a vacant or empty house if they remain unoccupied for 3 months or longer in any one year.
- The Overseas Investment Act must apply to all residential housing purchases as many of these ghost/vacant houses are owned by foreign interests.
- Add a Capital Gains Tax on all property set at 2% of the appreciation per annum – other than on the whānau home.
- Stop all sales of freehold land to offshore foreign interests.
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