Posts by Kumara Republic
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Speaker: Identification strategy: Now…, in reply to Russell Brown,
The most chilling part is that it might work
The distant panicky noises I hear suggest to me they’re not as well prepared as they would be if they’d planned it this way.
So in other words, it might not be going horribly wrong, but it might actually go horribly right.
That it’s likely strategic implies that Labour has given up on getting the ‘missing million’ to the polls, and instead is doing what could be its Orewa Rotary moment in order to win back voters who might have decamped to NACT or NZF.
It’d be unfortunate if Labour has to resort to pandering to base prejudices, in order to stay competitive with the NACT bloc. Just like Aussie Labor?
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Polity: House-buying patterns in Auckland, in reply to talkie_toaster,
Well, is Swan a person? I don’t know much about their posting history. Why would I? I’m new here.
Swan is known to be a Kiwiblog semi-regular and a PAS irregular.
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Polity: House-buying patterns in Auckland, in reply to Paul Campbell,
Of course if you are worried about the effect of immigrants on Auckland house prices simply do what we’ve done in the past and require new immigrants to settle somewhere else … of course National would have to reopen all the Dept of Immigration offices they’ve closed around the country over the past few years
It'd have to be backed up with regional development programs, given the amount of head office drift to Auckland in the past generation, and the fact that Auckland handles most of NZ's long haul flights due to a freak of economy of scale.
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Polity: House-buying patterns in Auckland, in reply to SHG,
How the fuck do you tell someone’s ethnicity from their surname?
This is flat-out racism from Labour, and Rob Salmond you should be ashamed of yourself.
Sickening.
Then again, the NACT bloc isn’t covered in halos either with Don Brash’s Orewa speech and the ‘fear of a Muslim planet’ elements. So no one’s covered in halos, period. Or is it only racism when there's big money at stake, in which case it's a 'model minority' issue?
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Polity: House-buying patterns in Auckland, in reply to Swan,
If the market was functioning properly, an increase in demand would generate a supply response. And indeed it will even in Auckland although it is far from optimal given the current planning regime.
I’ll say it again: much of the current planning regime is propped up by rentier hypocrites who claim to be anti-RMA free marketeers, but are prepared to play the NIMBY card to block anything that might threaten their cartel-hold on the housing bubble. Also coming to mind is the tit-for-tat use of the RMA for commercial gain by Foodstuffs and Progressive Enterprises.
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Polity: House-buying patterns in Auckland, in reply to Rae Sott,
Investment in already existing housing is dreadful, and contributes nothing, and that is from anybody, the rentier class regardless of where they are from including here, need severely curtailing and NZ needs to again be a nation of home owner occupiers.
"Rentier" is the keyword here. But typically they're too powerful to be dealt with via the political system, so non-resident house buyers are a much easier target.
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OnPoint: My last name sounds Chinese, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Or to be entirely cynical, you know exactly how a paper with a long history of race-baiting and playing fast and loose with facts around property prices will frame it…
And not just the Granny. Pat Booth's 'Asian invasion' articles in the community papers come to mind. At the time, housing apparently wasn't even the biggest issue.
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Polity: House-buying patterns in Auckland, in reply to Swan,
Two, the price response shows the supply side of the market is broken – that is the problem here.
Much of the supply happens to be held back by those who want the RMA thrown on a bonfire, yet at the same time will invoke it when it suits them.
ACT leader David Seymour has a weird concept of property rights:
and they do not want to have their neighborhoods intensified with eight story towers next to their homes. And the kind of rates corruption that they get from Len Brown -
Genter: And this is interesting because this is supposedly the free market party arguing for regulation. Arguing for regulation, higher prices where land values are high, where people want to live.
Seymour: No, what I’m arguing for is if the people of Epsom have bought into certain property rights and the character of their community.
Dick Quax claims Auckland is more densely populated than Sydney, Melbourne and even Vancouver. Cameron Brewer claims
And of course, this brain-fart from Denise Krum.
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At the very least, Twyford could have kept out or minimised the race thing, just by staying on message with 'absentee non-residents', which a stamp duty could partially fix. And in Aussie, non-residents can buy a house if they build it from scratch.
Then again, Twyford might really be pitching for the Winston vote. If so, there's a real risk it could push the 'model minority' vote to the Blue Team.
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Nick Smith, it seems, is still in the pocket of those who happen to be pocketing big from the Auckland housing bubble.
