March 2021
The housing crisis right now in New Zealand is one of our biggest contributors to income and wealth inequality. “With the explosive increase in sales and prices, those with houses have their income and/or wealth rapidly increasing, and those who are not on the property ladder are falling further and further behind,” says Peter Malcolm spokesperson for Closing the Gap – Income Equality Aotearoa New Zealand Inc. If allowed to continue the crisis will further the damage now being done to the fabric of our society.
Something urgently needs to be done we cannot understand why our Government seems totally reluctant to move on this issue other than to shift the blame and say it is a problem for the Reserve Bank. Everyone agrees that this problem is complex and that there are no “easy fixes”. However we believe there are solutions and this paper sets out to provide some answers.
