tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post6964459408702011323..comments2024-03-18T17:17:00.423+13:00Comments on Not PC: Task Force to clear the way for more affordable homes [updated]Peter Cresswellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10699845031503699181noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-63158753732658065792010-01-30T08:45:00.922+13:002010-01-30T08:45:00.922+13:00Owen
Thanks for the clarification and update.
...Owen<br /><br />Thanks for the clarification and update. <br /><br />I was very interested in building houses at one time. With all the regulators and planners and all their nonsense I can't be bothered any more. There are far better ways to spend ones precious time than dealing with people who deserve nothing better than the knout. One day it would be nice to see these vermin consigned to the dustbin. I'm not holding my breath though. <br /><br />Best advice to a young couple remains, leave NZ as soon as you can. Don't look back. You are not going to be able to have a decent standard of living there.<br /><br />LGMLGMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-84896339269633152602010-01-30T08:39:38.950+13:002010-01-30T08:39:38.950+13:00Sinner
If the market for housing and accomodation...Sinner<br /><br />If the market for housing and accomodation was left to itself the costs would decline. There would be more options available, especially for the people who have restricted wealth. Everyone would be better off. <br /><br />The victims of all the bureaucratic coercion and artificial restriction presently unleashed throughout NZ end up being trapped in a morass of despair and poverty where they are preyed upon by yet more bureaucrats doing everying possible to keep them there. <br /><br />Then along come people like you to exhibit the charmless hate you've just demonstrated. Does it make you feel superior to sneer at someone you perceive as occupying an inferior situation to yourself? Guess it must be the case that it does. I'll remember that when I discover you in straightened circumstances. Believe me, for you that situation is likely not that far off.<br /><br />LGMLGMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-46338916745391649982010-01-29T12:14:01.258+13:002010-01-29T12:14:01.258+13:00@Sinner: Actually, Sinner, one of NZ's problem...@Sinner: Actually, Sinner, one of NZ's problems -- or at least one of mine -- is people like you.<br /><br />So if you're serious about what you post here, then kindly piss off and take it elsewhere.<br /><br />And if you're not, then grow the fuck up.Peter Cresswellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10699845031503699181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-17444873558358316252010-01-29T11:35:32.190+13:002010-01-29T11:35:32.190+13:00people,
particularly those on low incomes and with...<i>people,<br />particularly those on low incomes and with few resources, and is inequitable</i><br /><br />Why the fuck should we or anyone care about "people, especially those on low incomes" not to mention those with few resources. <br /><br />Why the fuck especially should we care about it being inequitable?<br /><br />if you're productive, if you've got assets, then you can have a house.<br /><br />if you're not, you don't deserve one. Garages or caravans are better than tents I guess - but NZ"s problem is that <b>far too few</b> people are living in tents, garages, and caravans, rather than too many!Sinnernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-84535651059882819102010-01-29T10:23:27.022+13:002010-01-29T10:23:27.022+13:00Oops. Thanks. I've amended the update/Oops. Thanks. I've amended the update/Peter Cresswellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10699845031503699181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-12576458519797360742010-01-29T10:08:14.094+13:002010-01-29T10:08:14.094+13:00I am not sure it is business as usual.
I now reali...I am not sure it is business as usual.<br />I now realise that I took too much for granted during the first round and suggest that we all need to give assistance to Alan Dormer, Arthur Grimes, Connal Townsend and Stephen Selwood.<br /><br />And then make submissions to the Select Committee in support etc.Owen McShanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10130002581563595646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-8577687879743510512010-01-29T09:07:01.883+13:002010-01-29T09:07:01.883+13:00The Tag groups are stacked to give the EDS what th...The Tag groups are stacked to give the EDS what they want.<br />Townsend and Grimes will be outvoted.<br /><br />Alan Dormer Chaired the Tag group for the first round but everything was hugely diluted in the Select Committee by submissions from EDS etc.<br />So I am not so optimistic - much as I would like to be.<br /><br />If he was serious why put Adrienne Cooper on BOTH groups.<br /><br />Subject: The Cooper History<br /><br />It is worth noting that when I wrote my report for the Reserve Bank in which I predicted all these negative outcomes<br />the ARC appointed Hill Young Cooper "to prove it wrong"<br /><br />They accepted the commission and Adrienne Cooper and David Hill wrote a truly disgraceful report.<br /><br />She has been a strong supporter of Smart Growth ever since.<br /><br /><br />From the BRT document "Turning Gain into Pain" p106<br /><br />The Growth Strategy recognises that with intensification house prices would<br />be higher than otherwise. This acknowledgment seems to be an about-face by<br />the ARC and other councils that previously dismissed Owen McShane's view<br />that restrictions on the supply of land for urban development were putting<br />upward pressure on house prices.(9)<br /><br /> Policy-induced increases in house prices lead to higher interest rates and distort consumption and investment patterns.<br />The policy would adversely affect housing options available to people,<br />particularly those on low incomes and with few resources, and is inequitable.<br />It could be expected to accentuate overcrowding and reliance on<br />accommodation provided by caravans and garages.<br /><br />3.6 For these reasons, the Growth Strategy provides an unsound basis for the Transport<br />Strategy. In particular, the emphasis placed on urban intensification and reliance on<br />passenger transport services is mistaken and should be reconsidered by the Forum.<br /><br /><br />9 McShane, Owen (1996), The Impact of the Resource Management Act on the 'Housing and<br />Construction' Components of the Consumer Price Index: A 'Think Piece', a report prepared for the<br />Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Wellington and Cooper,<br />Adrienne Young and Hill, David (1996), A Local Authority Response to the McShane Report, a<br />report commissioned by the Auckland Regional Council, Auckland City Council, Franklin<br />District Council, Manukau City Council, North Shore City Council, Rodney District Council<br />and Waitakere City Council, Hill Young Cooper Ltd, Newmarket.<br /><br /><br />Papakura (with their Act Mayor) refused to contribute saying surely the ARC should ask for a review.<br />Not instruct the consultants to prove me wrong.<br />The report does not turn up on the web - on the wrong side of the Digital Time line.<br /><br />But Arthur Grimes should be able to get it from the ARC library.Owen McShanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10130002581563595646noreply@blogger.com