Overseas
investors not welcome to buy Christchurch state
houses
The news that Housing New Zealand is
holding an “invite-only” seminar in Sydney next week for
potential buyers of state houses in Christchurch is an
outrage.
In the middle of a housing crisis where
families are living in the sand hills in East Christchurch;
in cars and parks; under bridges and doubled up in small
homes the government wants to walk away.
But only
the government has the resources and capacity to build the
homes needed by New Zealand families.
They are
putting greedy foreign corporates ahead of the desperate
housing needs of New Zealanders.
Christchurch will
not stand idly by while National asset stripes the city of
state houses.
This is the wake-up call the city
needs.
SHAN is working with Housing Action
Canterbury to make the sale of state houses the number one
issue in Christchurch for the general election next
year.
It’s an issue the city will win against the
government. John
Minto
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