National plans to gut Kainga Ora
National plans to gut Kainga Ora
Bishop is yet to reveal the social housing policy the party will take to the election, but when asked if there will be job losses at Kāinga Ora he said "hope so".
The National Party is promising to axe swathes of jobs and “clean out” Kāinga Ora, the Government’s social housing landlord and developer.
When asked if there will be job losses at the agency, he said: “Hope so”.
Kāinga Ora was set up four years ago, and derailing it now would be “stupid”, Bill McKay, a senior lecturer in architecture and planning at the University of Auckland, explained.
”I think certainly Kāinga Ora could continue to learn a bit more from experts, but not from politicians. Lurching from one thing to another is not helpful when we are dealing with big problems."
On the spot, I can't think of anything we can learn from politicians. But the more policies National releases, the more I feel they don't put thought behind their policies. Someone said they didn't like something so they promise to get rid of it.
You've always got such a brilliant perspective on things, I love it
The only things we can really learn from politicians is what not to do. And even then if one has decency it wouldn't be required
I think we have to change the lens we use to think about some parties; National in particular. Unlike Act who are full on true-believers that legitimately think making a whole department redundant and shutting it down will magically make NZ better a big part of National doesn't really have an ideology anymore.
They're a party (like Labour in many ways - though they already did this) that are past their use by date and should have splintered and reformed into 2-3 other parties by now. But because they haven't National's main ideology is that National should be the government.
So when it comes to winning this election they probably feel that to a degree all they need to do is try to exploit the zeitgeist that Labour = cause of all the bad things and shut their mouths about most anything else.
In many other ways the bulk of the National party (ie the non-MP parts) really is the big C conservative - they don't want anything to change. And a big chunk of them are older and Pākehā so in particular any change that improves the situation for people who are not old and Pākehā is opposed.
What happens with National is that the MP and leadership bits are a lot more ideology driven - some of that is the Key sort of give rich people more riches, or the English side where he probably really did believe in trickle down stuff. And that's why when they actually have power they can have such an impact on the state of public infrastructure & services or the lives of poor people I guess even if their membership probably doesn't directly support a lot of it.
This will definitely save more kids. There is no possible way this could end poorly.
Is anybody surprised?
Given that people absolutely dread living next to a KO property, and one was burnt down recently, possibly by a local resident, they could definitely use a kick up the ass.
Maybe, but National is basically promising to spend more money on putting families in motels again.
Anything but that. This annoys me so much. Its a massive drain on resources to be paying motel rates, it screws up tourism because there's no vacancies, its bad for the people in there because it's temporary living and not a home, its bad for motel owners..
Better that those people live in the street eh? Maybe you think we should just cull them.
I don't think underfunding them is going to help.
It's unlikely to even save money, as it's going to cost the taxpayer more in motels and shady private lodging houses, let's not forget a private lodge burnt down too and killed people.
It's also going to cost more in endless medical bills for child respiratory infections, some of which cause lifelong complications.