The Government is so haphazard on housing that the
Minister of Finance wasn’t even aware Kāinga Ora has been
spending millions buying houses out from under the nose of
potential first-home buyers, National’s Housing
spokesperson Judith Collins says.
Information
supplied to the National Party by Housing Minister Megan
Woods shows Kāinga Ora purchased five properties on Nelson
St in Howick, Auckland for $4.8 million last
year.
“The Finance Minister was red-faced at Select
Committee today after being told this was happening on his
watch,” Ms Collins says.
“How can this Government
credibly claim to be looking out for first-home buyers when
it is spending so much public money buying homes in Auckland
before others can get a sniff?
“Rather than spending
almost $5 million on just five houses to inflate its state
housing portfolio, the Government should be building new
houses elsewhere.
“I am aware of other houses in
Auckland that have been purchased by Kāinga Ora at a cost
of nearly a million per house.
“This Government
cannot be trusted on housing. KiwiBuild has been a complete
disaster while many of the state houses the Government
claims to have built were either contracted or already under
construction when the previous National Government was in
power.
“It’s a tragedy that almost 15,000 families
are waiting for state houses under this Government because
of its inability to build houses and its meddling in the
rental market.
“The previous National Government
built more than 3200 state houses and left office with more
than 27,000 homes in the development pipeline. If elected
this year we will restart our good work by actually
delivering on our policies and getting rid of the
RMA.”
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