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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and opposition leader Judith Collins exchanged criticism about housing in their speeches in Parliament today.
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Ardern said that “it will always be irritating to him that the leader of the Opposition gives him a sermon” on the housing. Source: 1 NEWS
“House prices were up 25 percent nationally under the Labor government before Covid-19 hit, now it’s 37 percent,” Collins said.
“Under Labor, the wait at the state house doubled before the pandemic. Now it has tripled.”
“Since Jacinda Ardern became Prime Minister, the average household has earned more than the average worker. It is a sad situation and needs to be fixed immediately.
“We now have more than 360,000 people receiving the lodging supplement. More than half of the entire rental market is paying part of the rent from the taxpayer. We can’t go on like this,” Collins said.
In Ardern’s speech, she told the House that she will “always find it irritating to be lectured by the Opposition leader who left us a housing crisis, denied it was a housing crisis, and I have to say, whose main response to that house The crisis was selling state houses to cut the waiting list for public housing ”.
“In the one thing that would make a difference, the planning, they did absolutely nothing.
Figures released by the New Zealand Real Estate Institute earlier this month show that the median home price in New Zealand increased 19.8 percent from $ 605,000 in October last year to $ 725,000 in October. In Auckland in October, the median house price in the city hit a record $ 1 million.
Ardern also thanked New Zealand “for the honor and privilege of being back here.”
“This is, in this 53rd Parliament, the most diverse Parliament we have ever had and that is because New Zealanders have chosen to reflect who we are as a nation in this House of Representatives.
“We will be a government for all New Zealanders,” he said.
