Business leader makes fair call, says Winston Peters
Rt Hon Winston Peters
New Zealand First Leader
Member of Parliament for Northland
18 JUNE 2016
Business leader calling to join immigration-housing dots is right, says Winston Peters
The housing crisis is linked to record immigration, a business leader told TV3’s The Nation this morning.
“He’s talking common sense when he says ‘join the dots’,” said New Zealand First Leader and MP for Northland Rt Hon Winston Peters, after the statement by Employers and Manufacturers’ Association chief executive Kim Campbell.
“He is stating the obvious along with a growing number of New Zealanders who understand the mismatch of massive immigration numbers, now over 125,000, and 69,000 net, and the need for a home. This is exactly what New Zealand First has been telling the country but the PM refuses to listen.
“High immigration has long been a tipping factor in the housing crisis – there’s just not enough houses and now we have extremes of overvalued houses and unaffordability at one end and people living in garages and cars at the other.
“The government needs to join the dots, and urgently,” Mr Peters said.
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