Suspend Immigration: The common sense answer to New Zealand’s housing shortage

Over the past few weeks we have heard a great deal about the housing crises in Auckland and as a result people are being forced to live in cars and vans unable to find affordable accommodation.

Compound this with a growing number of homeless people living rough in our major cities and a Government still refusing to admit we have a crisis.

Our building industry is being stretched to its limits with the rebuild of Christchurch and the boom in housing not only in Auckland but also throughout the country. The problem has reached such proportions that owning a home in New Zealand is now for some young people only a pipe dream without the help of parents.

New Zealand used to be a country where you could own your own bit of paradise but that is not the case today. More and more cashed up immigrants are being allowed to come into the country and it is them who are pushing up the house prices and putting a strain on our building industry.

With 60,000 immigrants entering New Zealand last year our infrastructure is not geared to cope with that number of people. Waiting lists in hospitals for ordinary New Zealanders are also growing longer with resources being stretched on all fronts.

There is a simple answer to this situation - suspend immigration to allow our infrastructure to catch up with demand. This is a common sense approach unlike that being shown by the Government who think offering an incentive for homeless people in Auckland to move to other areas is the answer. This is adopting an out of sight out of mind mentality.

This Government needs to take the blinkers off and see what is really happening throughout the country. People are suffering and finding it hard to make ends meet but our Government is not prepared to accept this fact.

No doubt next year Bill English will be dishing out the long awaited tax cuts as an election sweetener in an attempt to get National Government re-elected. New Zealand needs to wake up to the truth. We are in crisis and need to do something NOW.

New Zealand is being taken over by stealth and it is ordinary New Zealanders who are suffering.

Next years General Election will give everyone the opportunity to have their say in who runs our country for the next 3 years. Cast your vote wisely. What you are led to believe is not necessarily the truth.

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