Migration-driven population growth has more than doubled compared to pre-Covid levels

In the short term narrative can be pretty persuasive - so long as enough landlords and tenants are convinced prices should be rising. The fundamental price base, i.e. that driven by supply and demand, is only reached once landlords of empty properties no longer believe they can just wait a few weeks for new sucker. 

Yawn, you continue to post this same drek as if that’s the norm.

Are you hoping to condition audience expectations to stay afloat?

Wow, sounds very elite. Cool, good for you. Ooooh, I see the point of your post was after the skite talk! Pfff. Go you.

First time I've ever hear anyone use that made up term for Queenstown in the wild.

What are you signalling with that?

 

Well we have lost a few fairly skilled staff off overseas, and then when we advertised to replace them (as posted previously re the CV's we got)...sigh a gulf of difference in the skill level and experience.

PDK has already pointed out on numerous occasions the issue with competing on GDP stats in a finite world where we are already in overshoot. We really need to have a house price crash, recession and reset as we can't have a productive economy using the same old band-aid tricks from the last 40years and expecting the same results in a changing world. 

Not just "unsustainable" but in fact a looming economic disaster for a country with champagne (equal to the few other western nations we like to compare ourselves with)...tastes but an embarrassingly low, "beer" income.

I am sure some of our new entrants will have entrapenurial skills with export potential, and some will join our existing export industries, but it seems most will join the vast proportion of our working population just,.."taking in one another's washing",....whilst join the throng who require the largely imported basics of life...houses, cars, clothing, electronics tonics, etc., etc..

Ultimately, and perhaps sooner rather than later, our dollar will crash as foreign lenders require higher risk returns.

Sadly, we've just elected a fellow with a $20 million plus property conflict of interest...

That's because Immigration removed all the requirements for approving workers for Accredited Employers to import workers.  They all just got rubberstamped through.  No checking of job skills, the type of job they are being imported for, or that the employer made any effort to find a NZ worker but couldnt.  Consequently, tens of thousands of unskilled workers with no real jobs to go to have been imported, by employers who simply pocket the "visa fee" they charge back in their home country (and so outside of NZ Immigration and Tax Depts control)

it does make you wonder. NZ has also experienced record numbers of new citizen applications over the last 12-18 months, I'd be interested to understand how many in 5 years time are still in NZ.

Rubbish, it's fully Labour's policies which allowed this number of immigrants.  Of course there are always forces pulling in different directions, but the buck stops at the top.  Labour made the decision to allow so many people in, period.

If only Labour had enjoyed a massive parliamentary majority with which to have done something about it, and in doing so demonstrate their credentials to the voters. 

Allowing the unending whining of the "we need cheap labour" brigade (who won't vote Labour anyway), and the talking heads on radio, to set policy direction was and remains madness. 

If your cafe can't run without importing cut-rate labour, then do you really have a viable business? 

I fully appreciate the need for skilled migration in focus areas e.g. healthcare (heck I was attended to recently by a fantastic team of nurses and specialists in hospital, all of whom - because I got chatting to them once I'd come around - were relatively recent arrivals to NZ) but flogging coffees, booze, and food ain't it. 

Where was Labour - a party that is supposed to represent the interests of the worker - pointing out that flooding the country with cheap labour will have the deleterious impacts of 1) lowering wages (or perhaps slowing wage increases) and 2) increasing demand on public services.

Where are you going?

1. Overly crowded where the idea of getting pipis from Mellon's Bay is a distant memory.

2. Increased med-high density housing and loss of the quatre acre.

3. Crime.

4. Racial tension.

5. Obligation for 2 parents to work until 65 in a middle income family.

Oh, we arrived here about 10-15 years ago. 

Lest we forget the pent-up travel demand by the usual numbers of youth who would be going for OE's through 2020-2022 who are all now, after a couple of years working and hopefully saving, heading off to explore the world. It isn't always about the money, young folk just want to try new things and now they have extra motivation to do it when comparing various things like income, lifestyle, and the level of choice.

Seriously, you are trying to blame National for people leaving in the year before the election was even held?

Actually, if anything the departures out of the country have slowed down since polling indicated National would win.  This however has resulted in the obscene numbers coming into the country becoming readily apparent.  With 80,000 net arrivals in October, and 33,000 net arrivals so far in November.

How is this even remotely acceptable? I would imagine the bosses/managers at INZ will be making bank - there should be some consequences, as in if you can't sort this stuff out go and flip burgers instead (hey presto that's one less burger-flipper we need to import as a 'skilled chef' or whatever).

The current net gain is not due to Act, it's due to Labour's policies.  What the next government will do, we don't know yet.

At least Winston is generally against high immigration. But who knows what he will do this time.

Thanks. I wonder how many of those simply used NZ as a route in to Aus?

(and what about the other half?)

You maybe right. My beard is ginger, like my hair, with horizontal stripes. So if you see a very small man with a beard that looks like a red panda bear’s tail, say hi.

"Expensive unreliable high maintenance glamourous European models have long been challenged by low cost reliable, high performing modest Asian models."

Is that why most people would rather own a toyota, honda, suzuki, kia, byd over a merc, bmw, bentley, audi, range rover ?

I doubt its non-Europeans forbidding it. 

I still think it would be common sense for them to have a maximum they could allow. When we have a housing crisis and not enough houses for those already living in NZ, I don't know where they expect them to live.

One would hope they would focus on quality over quantity, but it is a very fast-paced department I'd imagine.

As far as I know the only new hospital we have built is a) not yet built, and b) replacing an existing one. Don't know of any new schools but there is probably a bit of slack in the system given how many students don't regularly attend, and with the tendancy of some schools to be overlooked in favour of others. 

We've done ok with roads, although electricity supply might be a challenge. 

Yes, and the Labour +NZF did keep a much tighter control on immigration.  It was after 2020, after NZF, that Labour opened the gates.

Dickason was a time bomb waiting to go off anywhere & should never have been allowed in this country. Probably she should never been allowed IVF to have children in the first place, these clincs should legally require a psych assessment.

"The jury also heard how Dickason searched the internet while still in South Africa about drugs that could be used to overdose children.

McRae said that was evidence Dickason “had thoughts about killing her children” long before the fatal act."

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/timaru-triple-homicide-last-moments-of-di…

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/lauren-dickason-trial-husband-describes-h…

 The good news is that they only have to stick it out for 4 years, then get citizenship, then they can move to Australia.

Incorrect, they have to have been in NZ for 5 years since they got their 1st residency visa, be that residency then on to permanent residency, and remember some come on work-to-residence which doesn't count. Then you'll have some on working holiday visas who then get work visas and then on to residency.

The comment by KW above has to be the worst comments ever made on this site.

(conflating the cause of an extremely disturbed mass murderer's actions with NZ's housing issues)

Any data to back up this assertion? Some may be, but others are growing steadily over time.