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Homelessness reaches highest levels in history, Community Housing Aotearoa report finds (www.rnz.co.nz)

submitted 1 week ago by Dave@lemmy.nz to c/politics@lemmy.nz

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Significant investment in social and affordable housing is crucial to solving New Zealand's housing crisis and ending homelessness, a new report says.

The report by Community Housing Aotearoa warns homelessness has reached its highest level ever, with a shortage of affordable housing compounding the problem.

Chief executive Paul Gilberd said New Zealand had the "programmes and the capacity" to end homelessness if there was political will to do so.

"We can solve it as a nation here in New Zealand. It really is a political choice," he said.

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[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's a hard problem to solve. People don't have enough money, but if you give them money then they just have to pass that money on to people who already have plenty. A realistic solution is to tax existing wealth and then pass that money back to people, but the people with the substantial share of the wealth stand a lot to lose so they lobby like crazy to stop it happening. And much of it is never declared, e.g. donations to the Taxpayers Union, NZ Initiative, etc.

[–] nsh@lemmy.nz 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

What we need is a mandatory public register for lobbyists.

https://www.transparency.org.nz/blog/industry-code-of-conduct-for-lobbying

However, lobbying in Aotearoa New Zealand is unrestrained and opaque, with neither professional standards nor a public register of lobbyists and the clients they represent.