Five more years to decide on Ihumātao land

Brooke van Velden released:

“After capitulating to squatters at Ihumātao, and stopping 480 houses from being built, Labour says it’ll take 6.5 years to figure out what to do with the land,” says ACT Deputy Leader and Housing spokesperson Brooke van Velden.

“The Government made a $29.9 million agreement with taxpayers’ money to buy the land at Ihumātao from Fletcher’s. This is same Government that spent its time in Opposition complaining about the housing crisis, only to do nothing but make it worse when it got into Government.

It has taken them 18 months just to agree who will be on he working group, and the group has five years to recommend a plan. Even by Labour’s standards this is very slow.