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December 10, 2020 7:00am by David Farrar

7 Kiwibuild houses in October

Labour promised in 2017 that by late 2020 they would be building over 850 Kiwibuild houses a month.

In October they built seven.

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artemisia

There are 435 Kiwibuild homes available to buy (October). Not very popular then even though there is apparently a shortage.

Then 916 Kiwibuild homes under construction. Developers won’t be worried because underwrite by, you guessed it, taxpayers.
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December 10, 2020 7:13am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  It is more than what National built in their nine long years of neglect. So move on.
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:41am
  - WellingtonBFF
    
    3 Years of Incompetence
    
    I think we need to coin the phrase 3 years of incompetence. Unfortunately 9 years of neglect has become the ‘go to’ response such that nothing is attributable to Labour for their uselessness. Words not action is all they achieve!!
    
    3 Years of Incompetence
    
    Sir Cullen seems to say it’s OK for Labour to be so useless and not deliver on the promises that got them elected (by Winston 2017 and Sheeple 2020) because of:’ but nation! 9 Years of Neglect!, waaaaaaaa!! The reality is most stats are getting worse under Labour. But why let the facts get in the way huh?
    
    Labour’s 3 years of incompetence! Please make this the new phrase!!
    and not looking like improving any time soon……
    
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    December 10, 2020 11:59am
    - slernz
      
      Sir Cullen is right. Times have changed WellingtonBFF. Today, it is enough for St Jacinda to have aspirations. She doesn’t have to follow through. Worldwide she is acclaimed although she has achieved little. In the leafy suburbs of NZ she is acclaimed. She doesn’t have to deliver because “at least she tried.”
      
      Ardern is a master at hype. She understands that, in politics, the stories told are often as important as the substance achieved. She repeats the same slogans and mantras incessantly… soon most believe. The media praise her but do not condemn her mistakes or failure to deliver. It doesn’t matter because “at least she tried.”
      
      This is the reality of politics in NZ today.
      
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      December 10, 2020 5:54pm
    - jgw739
      
      I’m picking that by 2023, the slogan will need to be updated to Six Years of Shit
      
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      December 11, 2020 6:52am
Doctor Sigmund Freud

Isn’t Jacinda amazeballs! The greatest leader in the Western world!

My GOD I’m overwhelmed with her genius.

Who needs a house when we have Jacinda? We are the envy of the world!

Her next plan is to extend the near-universal tattooing of the nation’s skins… to the near-universal ‘tattooing’ of our language by changing our place names and common (and uncommon) nouns to Maori.

MAY JACINDA ARDHERN LIVE TEN THOUSAND YEARS!

Haven’t the schools and the universities performed magnificently!

And please place the entire nation under house arrest again. The annual cold and flu are doing it’s round again.

AMAZEBALLS!
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December 10, 2020 7:13am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Doctor Fraud – You can make fun of Jacinda as much as you want. But 53% of voting sheeple are happy with what she is doing. So just move on, please.
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:46am
  - Bobba Fret
    
    Just look at the crowd in Aotea centre in the weekend for the “money drop”. They would all be Greens or Labour voters. The future is looking good for the left.
    
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    December 10, 2020 10:26am
    - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
      
      Yes agreed. But wait for Robber’s big money grab taxes in the next year budget in the name of environment.
      
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      December 10, 2020 11:18am
  - Doctor Sigmund Freud
    
    I’m not making fun of Jacinda.
    
    I’m making fun of the voters.
    
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    December 10, 2020 11:17am
lazza

Yeah but watch them now accelerate all of their programmes.

The natural lag may take 6-9 ? months to disappear but their control of all the levers of power will soon see “progress”.

And “progress of the socialist kind we know will all be bad news.

Distributive political economics will prevail at great long term cost to our economy.

Productive effort and GDP improvement will be minimal, the long list of beneficiaries will grow and private enterprise will be slowly strangled.

Thanks Kiwi bozo sheeple for your mass blind obeisance to a mirage of fluff and woke delusion.
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December 10, 2020 7:14am
Zapper

I have such low expectations that I’m surprised and impressed they managed that many
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December 10, 2020 7:15am
- Ehlana
  
  Agreed. I’m not sure if the headline is trumpeting a new high or a new low.
  
  And the unsold Kiwibuild houses are a puzzle.
  
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  December 10, 2020 8:35am
  - RoboRob
    
    The unsold houses are not really surprising. When the state decides where and what will be built rather than an individual you end up with houses that no one wants. This is (one reason) why communism can never succeed.
    
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    December 10, 2020 8:39am
    - sooty
      
      Yep, who’s going to spend a heap of dough, when over the fence is a bunch of cars propped up on bricks!
      
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      December 10, 2020 8:55am
    - artemisia
      
      At the outset of Kiwibuild we were told expert advice had been sought on what and where. That worked well.
      
      And as at August 2020 – 205 Kiwibuild homes have been bought or underwritten by the taxpayer. $92 million. Many were multiple homes in developments. Thanks taxpayers, so kind.
      
      https://www.parliament.nz/resource/en-NZ/WQ_14682_2020/5471dd2044d7938799273bac62d0f63d7d9f9458
      
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      December 10, 2020 8:56am
- tedbear
  
  Labour’s house building company Kainga Ora who turn out 3 homes a day have been ordered to make around 10% of their output in Kiwibuild style.
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:20am
alloytoo

NZ elected a government with a solid record of failure.

at least they’re consistent.
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December 10, 2020 7:18am
- hullkiwi
  
  But that is the hypocrisy of NZ.
  
  We love sporting success; but
  In equal measure we love failure and putting the boot in and telling them were they went wrong (as if we all know better).
  
  We like people to succeed (whatever that is?); but
  We don’t like tall poppies, we think they are arrogant and like to cut them down to size especially when they fail.
  
  We want politicians to deliver the world to us; but
  1. We want the other guy to pay for it;
  2. We have no idea whether the promise is deliverable or adds to the sum total of anything if delivered; and
  3. When it is not delivered, we consider it a breach of trust and will kick someone for it. This despite 1 & 2 above, that we didn’t need it, and we never checked how and if whatever was being delivered.
  
  That is your average Kiwi, and is it any wonder that nothing of any real value is delivered to meet a need, is to specification, is on time and is on budget?
  
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  December 10, 2020 8:47am
jaysper

I genuinely didn’t realize that Kiwibuild was still active.
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December 10, 2020 7:22am
- RoboRob
  
  Thats exactly how Labour wants it. They don’t want you to remember their total failure with the key election promise.
  
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  December 10, 2020 8:40am
- yossarian
  
  But it’s splashed across every daily newspaper and news broadcast.. oh wait?
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:42am
- Bobba Fret
  
  I don’t think Labour are allowed to use the term “Kiwi Build” any more. They want people to forget about it.
  
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  December 10, 2020 2:39pm
Mobile Michael

Labour promised 400 Kiwibuild Houses in the Hutt Valley on land left vacant after the demolition of old, unsafe state houses by the end of 2020.

With 21 days to go, they’ve built none.

And the vacant land has been used for new state houses.
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December 10, 2020 7:24am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Sheeple of Hutt Valley elected Ginny. When I said Ginny will be elected, I was downticked heavily. People don’t realise how politically powerful I am. Anybody wants to have a bet with me now about 2023 results?
  
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  December 10, 2020 3:33pm
  - slernz
    
    If St Jacinda is still leader 2023 is in the bag. On the money as usual Sir.
    
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    December 10, 2020 5:56pm
gravedodger

Lucky that wasn’t the “Year of delivery” eh.
Possibly delayed by the cluster that is Ports of Auckland.
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December 10, 2020 7:29am
RiP NZ

Seriously…who cares anymore?
The left can be as incompetent as they please…say some meaningless platitudes and get free passes from the press for low rent voters to support them…..the world over.
This is the world now.
Rest in peace NZ indeed…..
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December 10, 2020 7:32am
- slernz
  
  Spot on. This is the reality now, St Jacinda is the anointed one the leader for our time. Bless her.
  
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  December 10, 2020 5:59pm
kevn

Who remembers the labour billboards slogan… “Homes For All” back in 2017 ?
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December 10, 2020 7:48am
- Bobba Fret
  
  Who remembers the saying “the year of delivery”
  Has it started yet?
  
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  December 10, 2020 10:28am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    No; the delivery went astray.
    
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    December 10, 2020 10:53am
Aunty

How dare you! This is a slur against my good Labour mate, Phil Twyford. These aren’t just seven kiwibuild houses. They are palaces, people’s palaces!

They are a triumph of socialist thought and endeavour and a fine example of the social progressive way.
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December 10, 2020 7:57am
- lemuzz
  
  Megan Woods the new minister for Kiwibuild is just Phil Twyford in drag
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:44am
Rich Prick

Yes, but Cindy cares and is kind, and those are far more important achievements.
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December 10, 2020 8:00am
JibberJabber

Built or Bought?
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December 10, 2020 8:04am
Scott

I’d be interested if anybody knows has Labour officially abandoned kiwibuild? It just seems to be going nowhere as DPF so clearly points out.

Are we going to get an actual housing policy that works? Or is it more tilting of the head, the nice smile, the “kindness”?

Dont get me wrong I like kindness as much as the next fellow. However is anyone in the electorate concerned about results? Will the media ask some hard questions on behalf of the homeless people? Where’s John Campbell when you need him?

If this was National you know Campbell would be in there boots and all. But because it’s lovely jacinda well just a smile and some empathy will do ?
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December 10, 2020 8:06am
- PeeJay
  
  Problem isn’t just kiwibuild but the whole big new organisation Kainga Ora, of which kiwibuild is but a part.. I know of a few projects that are taking a ridiculous amount of time. Concept design done. Then a review, urban design reviews (numerous), financial reviews, stakeholder reviews, council engagement and on and on. Reviews after reviews. Talkshops. Forms to be filled in. Boxes to be checked. In the time they take to get from one design stage to the next, most private developers would already be breaking ground on civil works. From what i can gather, the new organisation is just a swamp of process over process – all very well meaning, but completely stopping progress. It’ll get worse now and progress will continue to be glacial. All the while it’s only taxpayer money eh? But no matter, loads of people involved, loads of meetings, aren’t they all so important. And the wait list increases. And Campbell is onto this and doing his ‘sleeping in cars’ reports. No? Must have missed that.
  
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  December 10, 2020 8:41am
  - giltee
    
    It’s not taxpayer money being wasted on Kianga Ora’s kiwibuild because Labour has blown it all on handouts. It’s borrowed money that the taxpayer will pay for in decades to come. Incidentally is it me because I’ve noticed that when a government department is renamed in Te Reo it operational ability becomes a farce or is it because of Labour government lack of direction, low ability of new PC appointees, and lack of accountability?
    
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    December 10, 2020 11:43am
- RoboRob
  
  Last I heard, Megan Woods was running it and it had been restructured. AFAIK the restructure was the removal of any targets or success measures and a message to the media not to talk about it any more.
  
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  December 10, 2020 8:42am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  Where is Crumble?
  
  He sure as fuck isn’t interviewing someone with an impossibly clean fridge with a solitary apple to emphasise how hard it is for ‘ordinary kiwis’ under a National government.
  
  Twat twatty McTwatface that pos and to beat Gower with that nom-de-plume takes some doing!
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:17am
  - Scott
    
    Twatty McTwat face – that gave me a good laugh ?
    
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    December 10, 2020 5:32pm
DeepBlue

Only a cataclysmic disaster can save us from Labour. Oh wait they have have St. Jacinda.
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December 10, 2020 8:10am
Frank the tank

In the immortal words of the Rock

“It doesn’t matter”

As SCS repeats and repeats and repeats the sheeple/middle don’t care about facts. They don’t care about unpleasant truths. The don’t care about warning signs of economic hardship. They don’t care about incompetence. They don’t care about anything other than the cult of little Aotearoa.

The narrative has been fed and accepted hook, line and sinker. Our savior single handedly saved NZ from the second coming of the bubonic plague. We are the world’s best at everything. This is reinforced by the media on a daily basis.
Unfortunately this has been assisted by a false sense of financial security due to unsustainable increasing landed asset values. The scary reality is the Blairite could sacrifice Neve Te Awamutu in the middle of Lampton Quay and the great unwashed would cheer her on.

Facts don’t matter. This is now a waiting game where patience is a virtue. It will come unstuck but lord knows when. For all of you like me that have taken the red pill and not the blue we need to suck it up and batten down the hatches. We ain’t even close to midnight let alone the next morning.

Little Aotearoa is in full swing.
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December 10, 2020 8:13am
- Weinerpoop
  
  Unfortunately you are totally correct!
  
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  December 10, 2020 8:33am
- artemisia
  
  ‘Batten down the hatches’. Yes, and since the country won’t be doing this we the people will have to do it for ourselves. Households quietly protecting themselves. Not with gates, guns and basements full of toilet paper but with smarts.
  
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  December 10, 2020 8:35am
  - hullkiwi
    
    “Smarts”, you are asking a lot, 58% voted for Jacinda and the Greens.
    
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    December 10, 2020 8:52am
- giltee
  
  As my son said under Jacinda I’m doing ok, we’re doing ok. The average younger generation sheeple don’t see past their next pay. How can they with distorted reality on social media, the left-wing MSM and the reality crap they’re fed.
  
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  December 10, 2020 11:49am
  - artemisia
    
    I am coining it under this government. And most of it tax free. What’s not to like?
    
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    December 10, 2020 12:48pm
    - Frank the tank
      
      The pied piper has to be paid sometime. Kicking the can down the road to the end of the cul-de-sac usually results in said can rebounding off the gutter and hitting said kicker in the face.
      
      Grunter and Beetroot are unlikely to have the physical ability to duck said can.
      
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      December 10, 2020 3:45pm
UkiWop

The term ” Reset and Build Better” somehow has a rather pathetic ring to it
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December 10, 2020 8:16am
hmmokrightitis

This to me then suggests a few things at play.

We as a nation don’t believe the “housing crisis” is in fact a crisis, or that it doesn’t matter enough – we clearly didn’t vote based on delivery. If I told a customer Id deliver 850 widgets in November and I delivered 7 – well, we all know how that would go.

Equality of opportunity isn’t a factor – we want and like the idea of “fairness” (nope, don’t look to me for a definition) more than we want people to work hard. Which to me suggests weve got really lazy, both physically and intellectually.

And the kicker – $125M buys you a shit lot of silence.
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December 10, 2020 8:34am
lazza

Hey! that Dave Seymour has the testackillys … ehh?

On yuh Dave.

I stood and applauded/cheered when DS took on The Duck in the House yesterday.

Our Dave’s arrows flew true aimed as they were at the Speakers disgraceful behavior in the first instance and his attempt (abortive) to massage-manage the media with the public announcement of his humbling (though no doubt far from contrite) false rape incident apology.

An affair-incident which by the way seems to have cost a long-serving public servant both his reputation and his career.

Bullies everywhere need to be fronted. Mallard is a renowned unreconstructed bully, just watch him presiding.

He has form as a punchy aggressive opinionated bovver boy.

These are the very WORST credentials for a Speaker of the H of R.

In the face of DS’s kool confrontation, Mallard looked angry/discombobulated/pissed/frowny/uncomfortable and barely able to conceal his rage at the sheer effrontery of it all.

His patently stage managed MO had been called for what it is … manipulation and cynical misuse of his priviliged position in the House.

Mallard could in time prove to be a liability for Labour particularly if Act/Nats coordinated attacks are kept up. They should be.
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December 10, 2020 8:35am
- Prince
  
  If only someone could do something about it.
  But as the PM said yesterday, amid shrugs and frowns, ‘not my job’.
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:09am
- Benedict Yu
  
  TBH Seymour is looking like a Leader of the Opposition.
  
  I hope one day there is a government with significant ACT influence. It is the only way to have reform.
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:12am
  - RightFirstTime
    
    A correction if I may Benedict. David Seymour IS the Leader of the Opposition.
    
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    December 10, 2020 10:35am
Vallager

I think we need to consider this from more of a glass half full perspective.

For starters, that’s 7 more Kiwibuild houses than National have built in the same time. That, in percentage terms, is an infinitely superior performance, and Jacinda can rightly give herself, and anyone else in arms reach, a congratulatory hug.

Second, to the best of my knowledge, no-one building these houses was killed by military style semi automatic assault weapons – clear evidence that the buy back scheme has been resoundingly successful, and consequently Stuart Nash can expect to be added to the hugging list.

Thirdly, this has all been done WITHOUT a covid vaccine – further proof that our government was right to ensure we were at the bottom of the priority list for the vaccine. That’s real foresight on their part, and probably justifies a 24 hour team hugathon.

Fourthly, and I won’t say finally because there are a myriad of other positives we can take from this, it lays to rest the ugly rumour that this is a government who doesn’t deliver. Many of those who spend their day on this blog grossly and unfairly maligning our government will themselves have not built 7 houses in October. Some will have built only 2 or 3, and many will have likely built none at all. These naysayers should hang their heads in shame and expect no hugs at all.
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December 10, 2020 8:35am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Christ, what a stupid post.
  
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  December 10, 2020 8:45am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Yes CM it was. But reality is, that is exactly how Stuffed, the Horrid and TVNZ report these matters. To them it is the naysayers who are the problem, not the fact the govt is under achieving, period!
    
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    December 10, 2020 8:58am
  - Vallager
    
    Stupid? How so, oh captain my captain? Was the irony a tad opaque for you?
    
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    December 10, 2020 9:03am
  - ISeeRed
    
    I think tongue was firmly placed in cheek.
    
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    December 10, 2020 11:59am
- giltee
  
  Interesting but you miss one point. Apart from state houses it’s not the government job to build houses. It’s the governments job to create or change restrictive laws thus creating an environment that makes it easier and less costly for the private sector to build what would then be more affordable houses for all. This socialist Labour government isn’t capable of that kind of thinking, let alone doing anything without employing think-fests to do their thinking for them. Even when these task forces come up with suggestions Adern and co aren’t capable of putting them into action.
  
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  December 10, 2020 12:00pm
thetiedarch

The worst thing about this being yet another example of Labour’s incompetence, is that it’s just become an accepted part of who they are.

People are so used to hearing they’ve failed to do yet another thing, that none of it is a surprise anymore, and so, no one cares.

We’re stuck with these idiots because the masses don’t care about their uselessness.

So at this point, why do we bother pointing it out? All it does is get us riled up and further dumbfounded about the fact these idiots are still in charge.
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December 10, 2020 9:25am
Thought Criminal

Can we get an update on the cost of central government bureaucracy to build each house?

Wasn’t it 40k per house? What is it now?
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December 10, 2020 9:27am
cmm

It just doesn’t matter. Asd I’ve said before, Cindy is the Bridget Jones politician and is not measured by success or failure.

Indeed, picking on her failures is quite likely going to have the opposite reaction of making people rally around her and support her.

I think the campaign DPF ran showing Labour screw ups likely gained her votes.

Even pointing out the incompetence of the people around her boosts her position. Poor Cindy has to deal with all those numpties around her – aww come on let’s do what we can to help her.

If National want to get back in the game then they need to offer something better. Pointing out Cindy’s failures does not help.
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December 10, 2020 9:27am
- Im Right
  
  I agree CMM, but how the hell does an opposition survive and thrive WITHOUT pointing out the non deliverables promised or the Govt stuff ups?
  If this just ‘rallies the troops’ around the PM then we are truely stuffed as a country.
  What you are effectively saying is that the opposition should not point out anything/question anything that has to do with the leader of the country and just pick the easy targets like Twyford et al?
  Id rather see National lose next election but hammering Ardern in parliament over the next 3yrs than see them crossing their finger and leaving her alone in her obvious stuff ups/non delivery for the sake of some votes.
  
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  December 10, 2020 10:47am
Albert_Ross

And once again DPF blames the Government for failing to be more active and interventionist in the economy.

Come on, David. I’m becoming more and more concerned at your continuous attacks on the Government from completely the wrong direction.

WE DON’T WANT THE GOVERNMENT TO BUILD ANY HOUSES. We want them to have the sense to get out of the way of actual house builders who know how to do it, and who could be doing it at scale, more efficiently and to a higher standard, if the Government would instead focus on tackling the regulatory regime which makes it illegal to build an affordable house and almost impossible to build even an unaffordable house.

That is the message we should be getting. Complaining instead that Government should be doing more to provide what the private sector is perfectly capable of providing if allowed, is the sort of thing we expect and get from the Greens.
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December 10, 2020 10:23am
- Swifty
  
  While of course you’re right Albert, I take from these posts from DPF that he’s poking the borax at Labour’s chronic over-promising and under-delivery.
  
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  December 10, 2020 11:09am
- ISeeRed
  
  This is why National gets no respect from me. “We have to out-Labour Labour!” seems to be their motto.
  
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  December 10, 2020 12:01pm
Bobba Fret

Where is Megan Woods ….why is she not trumpeting this successful number of Kiwi builds?
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December 10, 2020 10:34am
artemisia

Minister Woods now focusing on vacant homes (NBR headline today, paywalled). For sure that will be laser focus on those Kiwibuild places available to buy and under construction. Right?

And yes I am aware some will only be available off the plans, not IRL.
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December 10, 2020 11:30am
greybeard

In October they FINISHED building seven houses.
Those seven probably took 7 months to build.
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December 10, 2020 11:59am
trout

from Businessdesk
Kāinga Ora paid 130 of its 1,975 staff more than $180,000 each in annual salaries for the year to June, putting them in government’s newly amended top tax bracket, while the number of public houses it delivered fell 41 percent to a net 727 from last year.
The housing crown agency’s pipeline of development work also fell, from 294 last year to 264.
Chief executive Andrew McKenzie, whose take home pay was more than $830,000 and is the second highest-paid public servant after Accident Compensation Corp boss Scott Pickering, cited the impacts of covid on the reduced build numbers.
The agency is now facing an uphill battle to get to its targeted 4,480 public housing units by 2023.
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December 10, 2020 6:16pm
lazza

Andrew Mc Kenzie has form. As the CFO of Auckland (City) Council he staged a hit and run when things turned out to be too tough for him.

He also was naturally attracted to a cozy post in the civil service that “paid well” .

Didn’t that go well for him.

A troughing chancer with little to show on his CV as a performer.

On a performance based pay scale he would now be struggling to pay his mortgage,
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