The Greens are unlocking the door to:
Build Public Housing
Public housing is the best way to make sure everybody has a safe, accessible, warm home. We’ve done it before in Aotearoa, we can do it again.
End Homelessness
We know what the solutions are. We need a government brave enough to pump support into the community. We will pull out all the stops to make sure everybody in Aotearoa has a place they call home.
Fix Renters’ Rights
The government has ripped up the rights of people who rent. We are focused on making sure everyone who rents has a secure home to live in, ending no-cause evictions, stabilising rent increases, improving rental quality and making renters’ rights fairer.
A home for everybody
Everybody deserves an affordable, healthy place to call home, whether you rent or own. For the third of people in New Zealand who rent, that is not always the reality. Far too many renters are paying through the roof to live in cold, damp, and unhealthy homes that are making them sick and locking them in poverty.
Public housing is the best way to ensure that everyone has an affordable home. We have a proud history of building public housing, but Christopher Luxon’s Government has cancelled hundreds of new homes instead, despite ongoing need
Christopher Luxon’s Government has intentionally increased homelessness. Experts warned them that their choices would increase homelessness, but they went ahead, and homelessness increased. In Auckland alone, homelessness has more than doubled, and it’s the same story across all of our cities and regions.
Whether you prefer to rent or want to buy your first home, housing is wildly unaffordable. Rents and house prices are still higher than they were before the COVID-19 house price bubble, and the Government has no plan to turn that around. Successive governments have made landlords and property speculators richer through tax breaks that take money from essential services, by not building enough homes for people, and incentivising a hands-off approach to the rental market. Saving for a first home should be an attainable goal for everyone.