There are more Maui dolphins than
Kiwibuild homes, points out the New Zealand Taxpayers’
Union.
Taxpayers’ Union Executive Director
Jordan Williams says “DoC estimates there are only 63 Maui
dolphins left, putting the species on the verge of
extinction, but that’s still more than the 47 KiwiBuild
houses that have been built so far, despite KiwiBuild having
a budget of $2 billion. The only responsible policy response
is to place the KiwiBuild houses on DoC’s critically
endangered list.”
“More seriously, even if Phil
Twyford did achieve his house-building goals, he would be
doing next to nothing to increase housing supply. The New
Zealand Initiative’s latest report, Kiwibuild – Twyford’s Tar Baby,
points out that KiwiBuild will, at best, increase the
housing stock by 2.7 percent during a period where
population increases by 10.8 percent.”
“By any
measure, KiwiBuild is a terrible use of taxpayer funds. The
Minister needs to cancel this failure of a policy while
it’s still relatively
cheap.”
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