Election 2017 - Party Policies - Housing
27th May 17, 9:38am
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Housing
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- The cost of housing is unacceptably high. Auckland (and some other cities), have a significant housing shortage.
- The high cost of housing is pushing costs on to taxpayers as the government increases spending on emergency housing, Income-Related Rent subsidies, and Accommodation Supplements.
- Remove New Zealand’s large cities from the Resource Management Act, and create separate urban development legislation, prioritising land supply and reducing red tape on developers.
- Incentivise councils to consent more land for development and build more infrastructure, by sharing a portion of GST levied on construction.
- Get Councils out of the building standards process, by replacing council building inspections and compliance with a mandatory private insurance regime for buildings.
- Read more here.
- Housing is a social good and a basic right.
- No one should be prevented from establishing a decent home because of low income.
- All people should have secure tenure of appropriate housing.
- Housing developments should optimise land use, reduce car use and be built to sustainable building principles.
- Energy-saving and resource-conserving technologies must be promoted for all buildings.
- Read more here.
- Establish the Affordable Housing Authority, an independent Crown entity with a fast-tracked planning process, tasked with leading large-scale housing developments and cutting through red tape.
- Use the Affordable Housing Authority to drive the delivery of the 100,000 affordable homes planned under the KiwiBuild programme.
- Undertake greenfields and revitalisation projects through the Affordable Housing Authority in conjunction with local groups to build the housing and infrastructure that our communities need.
- Put all surplus urban Crown land under the control of the Affordable Housing Authority for use in its development projects.
- Read more here.
- Create a Minister for Māori and Pacific Housing to address the complex challenges, from homelessness to home ownership, which high numbers of Māori and Pacific families face.
- 1000 new Whānau Ora navigators with specialist housing knowledge to support whānau in to homes, and to retain them in those homes.
- Develop a National housing strategy taking into account the specific rights and interests of Māori under Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
- Establish a Housing Sector Committee within the first 3 months of the next Parliament to co-design a 25-year government enabled housing strategy that builds on He Whare Āhuru He Oranga Tangata and addresses the entire housing spectrum.
- Work with the housing sector to build 120,000 houses in Auckland by 2025.
- Read more here.
- Family Incomes Package increases Accomodation Supplement rates for a two person household to be $25 and $75 a week, while the maximum rates for larger households will increase between $40 and $80 a week.
- A $1 billion Housing Infrastructure Fund to accelerate new housing in the high-demand areas where it’s needed most. The new fund will focus squarely on financing infrastructure like roads and water needed to support new housing.
- Setting up independent Urban Development Authorities to speed up housing development in high-demand areas - they’ve proved successful in many other countries.
- Reforming the Resource Management Act to make it easier for councils and developers to get houses consented and built.
- Tightened rules to ensure people buying and selling property for profit pay their fair share of tax.
- Read more here and here.
- Initiate the New Zealand Housing Plan to revamp the New Zealand housing market covering housing availability and affordability as well as rental homes supply and affordability.
- Reduce pressure on housing by slashing 72,400 foreign migrants net, who entered New Zealand over the past year with most settling in Auckland.
- Ensure that only New Zealand citizens and Permanent Residents can buy freehold land.
- Recognise that there is a housing crisis by establishing a new state agency to acquire and develop land for residential development.
- Provide first home buyers with affordable residential sections under long term low interest sale and purchase agreements of up to 25 years.
- Read more here.
- UnitedFuture is calling for a National Housing Summit, bringing together central and local government, home construction companies, the banking sector, and social agencies to develop a coordinated national housing policy, that deals with making land available for home construction; ensuring we build the number of new houses required; making sure we have the finance packages available to assist families into their new homes; and that the social agencies have support for helping the homeless.
- Read more here.
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