A lot to the countrys fortunes we bring you the stories and developments that are rapidly changing the world we live in get a break sit down that was a slogan that whatever the problem is of course jobs and counting the cost on aljazeera. New zealand is known as a prosperous and progressive nation its young left wing leader just. Came to power promising kindness and compassion one of my ms key policies is fixing the housing crisis but inequality has deepened on her watch and in an Election Year the cozy 19 pandemic is only making things worse one i want to make the family struggling to find a place to call home good morning and the man helping the homeless become hard. Every morning struggling families white house side the doors of the aaa pay seeking help to access and their chintzy grants from new zealands welfare system and. I mean mary. Ricardo and his team are on the front line of the housing crisis or clinics in and poverty is volunteer Labor Organization that has been operating in Oakland Airport and we do advocacy with lower communities who are receiving a benefit most of them but also working families to take on a cause in the economy is one by one in fact the majority of people we work with are being squeezed out of rental market they can barely afford their weekly ranter may be homeless. The morning whats become one of the most unaffordable cities in the world for many middle class households high rents mean they cant afford to buy a house. But families like days cant afford to buy food today youre here almost issues youre also needing if you grant them and housing president open looks like an ordinary working family on the minimum wage spending the 70 percent of it. On rent and being left with very little to feed their children and living a couple of paychecks away from homelessness is still tough out there oh no its nothing else also im come from. Help people so what do you needing help. Going to do to get anything. Done much money if you have a little when you pay your green dentals. Just 200. 00 a week everything is going to be you its not even enough to be a lot of. People on benefits like auto last say can get emergency grants but these need to be repaid creating a debt trap as your payments high for anything. You be paying the label 40. 00 when you think youre d 60. 00 to 60. 00 is too much you said you came to work for triple life a top because you knew what it was like to struggle what do you know about struggle i have been homeless in the past stayed in the car on the con the past weeks. Until i got into a boarding house whats that life wasnt good thats a lot of them feel good it wasnt a safe environment. Homos. So close to being at all and its called it was called. Vulnerable families struggling to keep a roof over their heads and a record 14000 households are now on the white and list for Public Housing the reality is that this government is not putting enough resources to even house half the families on the waiting list or the next 4 years or expecting that over 8000 families are going to go without a safe place to call home we dont know if you were homeless trying to get this is what happened. Yesterday this man was facing a night on the streets until aaa pay helped him access emergency housing and. Were barely coping with the number of people that are coming toward those living hell and weve got a labor led government that is not committed to lifting benefits that is not committed on building enough Public Housing and what does that tell our families out there. The government has to agree to increase most benefits by 25. 00 a week as part of its covert 19 support package. But last year it ignored an expert report recommending that benefits be increased by almost 50 percent while spending 41000000. 00 on an emergency accommodation in motels housing people in my tells was supposed to be a short Term Solution to the ballooning whiteness for state housing a way to stop people being forced to sleep in the cars on the straight in a rich country like new zealand it should be possible to create the conditions where everybody has access to a decent home. You zealands not the only country in the grip of the housing crisis but its had real political consequences here one of my ms key policies is fixing the housing crisis public concern about Housing Affordability helped elect just center at the. 100000. 00 standard homes for space time buys over t. E. s. With its flagship kiwi built program the government promised to flood the market with Affordable Housing but there were problems from the start i only 258. 00 houses have been completely under the east kiwi boat isnt happening at the tice we want object knowledge some of the issues we face. But its not as though the governments been sitting on the tans. Clones in the middle of a housing boom thanks to new policies encouraging development. And the government fulfilled a promise by banning many foreigners from buying existing homes. But its those most in need who are still being left behind. And those on the streets are just the tip of the iceberg taking its. Place. And apartment. Houses i. Can honestly. Say 50 percent of the Homeless Population live in overcrowded houses like the one kaffir wants to show me this is. Its right. They called the invisible Homeless People camping out in living rooms all garages because of a lack of space. And. More likely to be maori and Pacific Islanders and it turns out they really are invisible nice to meet you i must. Be. Thanks for letting us come see you and. They give us a lot of People Living here 8 of us 8 but theres only one at the moment they always write they already own heart. I want to be at a camp i know where ok it is only the room in a room ok seriously theres a room in this house with 8 people in it. Because partner and 6 kids eventually come out of hiding but only when we agree to blur their faces shyness isnt the problem. Its shame at the way they live. 8 people squeezed into a small public house with mom and dad forced to sleep in the lounge theres a judge really 2 people know these so we dont like bringing people over and when people come over we hide so that they dont live there we stay here yeah you just tell me you got me other home a little business. This is just normal for them when people come here day running i dont know where theyre not just you its just the same. Even the Church People are they coming up on a dirty run and i. Get it because of the situation the house 18 some of these old. Heifer new to. Their big herds like they dont need to. Look at them. Its for teenagers. And they dont need space now. During a coronavirus pandemic overcrowding will pose a serious risk to Public Health but theres little hope of a short term fix because been on the waiting list for a larger house for 3 years only if you have ambitions or dreams when it comes to a home. So in a house why would that mean so much to you. Who just threw away. You can never quite bring a firm knew. Everyone you know you know in your life or about you know not to hard you know. This is your own property that you own. That you can do whatever you want. But Home Ownership has been declining in new zealand for years most kiwis need to tough it out in the rental market where the landlord is king. My name is people who are some a full time resident a landlord. The by i want to help that with my initial play. My goal was to have a sufficient income that i could afford to do within reason what i wanted to do when i wanted to do it and have you achieved a goal i have achieved that no. One of people think of landlords in the middle of a property crisis most people just like a little bit of the image of a delayed notice about your pieces like a little bitty mint crossrail that rolls royce. Writing in and throw it what does it all for example. Which of course is ridiculous because any sensible angel does not get rid of attainable unless youve got a really really good reason. And you own one of these places saw. One of the right this one to. One of the big companies. This one here on the left and then im told that one me on the left hang on so how many hours do you have in this one block 5 places. Wow you must like this neighborhood yes i do and its also handy because that i can come in fix a tip of one place and paint a window in another and then go and take a cue from another one and i dont even have to restart the car each time. Its very practical. After year thank you unlike most investors pisa hasnt bought property for the Capital Gains he wants to make a good living off the rental income and that means he does everything from self 30. Not to really be a jack of all trades you can get people to do it but of course each of the would charge you 100. 00 tripling time as property prices have gone up and its rents have gone up if you will sign noticed an increased interest desperation among renters looking for properties competition and what i have noted of course is of tenants i do have are now tending to buy a lot longer than i used to because there are less options out for them if they chose to leave is probably more difficult for. Them to find another property. I think. What were going to do is that normal property inspection which are required by insurance so i would just measure one way around thinking that info ok so lets paint a life as a landlord eventually a good mother like compared to my last man mode like he does on slate is why he always gets hit with everything that communication is great points are all ok. He seems simple yeah yeah its good you like the attention to detail yeah yeah. Yeah 52. 2. So thats the same as last time. Which means nothings got with. What youve had like other experiences with landlords that are different even if this is the 2nd place that with all this beast. Youre into garridge what to store things are. You lived in a garret a 450. 00 a week carrots. What happened there that was like all you guys could find yeah we were disappointed at the time and nobody would take us how long ago was this year. So maybe if. So this is you and your partner. 4 of you living in a garret. Oh my god must have been told in winter yeah because they had like makeshift one days but they were like heaps of guess so every time a brain thought it would come through. Its cant get over that youre living in a garret for 2 years. With a lockdown in response to covert 19 the government has announced a rent free. But before the pandemic some landlords were clearly taking advantage of the housing crisis giving all of them a bad name we are not knowledged were unappreciated and wave of hard and as i said to someone the other day if you really want to be hated in new zealand so you would log. But peter has a plan to help tenants gain more rental security offering a 10 year lease. It would give tenants the freedom to do what they want with their home but dont expect landlords to replace the curtains and fix the sink the landlord would provide the shell of the building and be responsible for the outside might but the tenant would by simply rent the property they had the floor the walls and the ceiling but put in their own flooring upon their own lot for things they would do their own wall decoration they were put in there id have lots. Well issues are current loans are current gardens are ok and that is an option i would like to see another or might have been different to the Housing Market ok well im very happy as usual with the condition of the property. Thank you. But. As it turns out my tenants are secure in their older forever and id thought they could be looking for a new house. Was. But theres little political appetite for any significant reforms to the Housing Market today i am an ounce saying that the Coalition Government has ruled out implementing a Capital Gains tax. Like kiwi build this was a not reluctantly broken promise for just send the return this was an issue that we just couldnt form consensus on. This is an Election Year and when it comes to the provision of housing the government doesnt have a lot to boast about Prime Minister just sender a dern and housing minister dr meagan woods turned down our repeated interview requests new zealand goes to the polls again this year do you think the governments going to pay a political price for its failure to do more i think the government is already paying a price in its polling when it comes to a lack of delivery the crisis is pretty bad in new zealand so if you think about our house prices in places like oakland theyre nearly 10 times the average household income. When as other people who are already on the property ladder but for young people in particular the crisis will play out for years to come easy one does believe in homeownership as kind of one of those rites of passage its seen as something that makes you an adult a fully functioning member of society so when you dont reach a big give the gift of the sort of sense of being disconnected or not achieving being a family or. Does ground 0 new zealands housing crisis. But north lend is new zealands Fastest Growing province. With many ologhlin does off and now they move in here in search of more Affordable Housing thats pushed up prices in kaitaia a small town in one of the countrys most deprived regions. Its very much or verse full of all my 967. 00 draft where 95 percent of all madi lived in the rural areas and moved down to the cities were saying i have a verse of that to die in 2020. There are no private brain tools available or so many of the families who live in them back shift caravans busses cattle sheep its a link to use and ive a crowded Living Conditions and its going to get worse. So of 41. This is right and the property. Or for us. To do and its. Use of a harness that were nationally to bring the mosque from Mali Community leader ricky housen mortgaged his own house to buy this land in the hope of giving his community a new lease on life. He then found abandoned and derelict public houses and all cleaned and trucked them up here and this was just farmland this was just barren farmland you created your own little some and then yeah. Take a look around. Here they look pretty shabby now yeah they. Have been sitting in oakland and School Holidays and you get a lot of young people go in there and pick holes in walls they steal the spelling of the copper spouting off the forms. Ricky has a bold an unconventional plan for addressing the housing crisis apia. The 1st step involves recycling the homes and making them habitable again its all good or its looking a lot better than what it was. You have to have an ability to look beyond all of us to see what it can look like whether its a house or whether its peoples futures you have to be able to see the goodness in everything. Not just the brutal although thats his skill. But thats not how i know what i know. Because you got a house from the trust. We had nothing in it gave us a chance and given us a home got a roof over our heads and im very grateful for that. The 2nd step of rickys plan involves housing families but its about more than just putting a roof over their heads. Ultimately the goal is to take people who are homeless and turn them into home owners within just 14 years families here pay 275. 00 a week most of which goes towards paying off 160 1000. 00 cost of the house ricky hopes this is just the beginning he wants to turn around a historic decline in mali Home Ownership and assisting families to move from a state housing to preannounce housing and agreements. What did you guys think the 1st time you saw the play. Off. Of the dream people to. Have a house and then why having a hard time what was your situation before you moved here. They were. Living from house that helps. You with their suitcases leoni and whos originally from pop when you give me tried making a go of it in australia but came back with their 2 kids when it didnt work out how did you find yourself in trouble when you came back it was in the rain totals here looking for some way that it was stressful. To young kids and try why the my body went up 3 to a couple with 2 and 30 probably they applied for emergency accommodation with a social worker at rickys n. G. O. S and put us down in a way. And asked us. What we were gonna do if we didnt have anywhere to go and i told her that were going to live in a tent here with their. They were given emergency accommodation and the opportunity to join a hub and Ownership Program learning about what it takes to own your own house the reality of homeownership is that if something bright you have to fix it and you learn all of it you learn about insurance and just write good write have your money i can. Hear it. Everyone signs up to strict rules no alcohol or drugs or violence. In the dream i had living. Always the way that youre bringing your kids up here now different to the way you were born. You know around. Out all right. Here. In the former premier there like. That was your childhood yeah only so much monkey hiding. And trying to jump in and save her didnt want my turn to be in the arnheim. What does this mean to you when youve grown up like that. Everything. Security. At the perfect march or. Anyone anyone in my family and no from. You ran away from your high but you know that your children will never have to run away from this one were. Going to. Hear your poem oh. It will open rickys dream has come a long way since he mortgaged his house that he cut a white trust now employs 27 stuff with assets of over 6000000 dollars good morning although hes now got government backing ricky says hes still hamstrung by bureaucracy and a lack of funds he was. No more. Proud to be amongst the poorest the most harmless people not such a beautiful prosperous land it was sort of because he thought. When mao n. C. S. Does in fact i know if i came back today and of the by housing situation they would say what the heck did you do i get to with the best of everything. 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