A moment for pretty much the opposite where retreat from the world could actually save every generation has its moment this one is ours. 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 mine his 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 im out. I mean how many. Ricardo and his team are on the front line of the housing crisis or clinics and asked 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 one by one in fact the majority of people we work with are being squeezed out of the rental market they can barely afford their weekly renter may be homeless. Good morning whats become one of the most an affordable 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 meeting a few ground yeah and housing president oakland looks like an ordinary working family on the minimum wage spending the 70 percent of it and. 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 like Something Else also im kufa might. Help the people so what do you needing help now you. Dont want money do you have a little when you pay your greenstein youre 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 higher and we think. Youd be paying the label 40. 00 when you think youre 60. 00 to 60. 00 is this too much you said you came to work for triple life a top because you knew what it was like to struggle with what do you know about struggle i have been homeless in the past stayed in the car on the con the pos weeks. Until i got into a boarding house whats that life wasnt got. 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 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 you see couldnt 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 a housing crisis but its had real political consequences here one of right is key policies is fixing the housing crisis public concern about Housing Affordability helped elect just cinder at the. 100000. 00 starter homes for its peace time buys over t. E. s. With its flagship kiwi builds 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 failed so far under the scheme east kiwi boat isnt happening at the price we want 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 street just the tip of the iceberg taking its. Place. And upon. The houses ive. Been at home asleep. 70 percent of the Homeless Population live in overcrowded houses like the one kaffir wants to show me this is yeah 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 to me you are almost. 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. If you want to be at a camp i know where 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 lived. 8 people squeezed into a small public house with mom and dad forced to sleep in the lounge this judge really 2 people know these are we dont like bringing people over and when people come over we hide so that they dont live there we stay here yeah you thought you got me i think im a little business. This is just normal for them when people come here theyve done it i dont know very well not just you its just the same. Event that cheers people to come in are going to do it when i. Get it because of the situation in the house i have doing some of this now. They hide from you to. Their big heads like they do in. 14 major. And they dont need space. 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 your firm new. Everyone you know you very nearly or about. Not to hard you know. This is your own property that you own. There 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 peter lewis im a full time resident a landlord. The but 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 that goal i have achieved that now. 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 without your office. Which of course is ridiculous because any sensible angel does not get rid of it you know unless youve got a really really good reason. And you own one of these places saw. One of the right this one to. The level one of the pick from believe. This one here on the left in the middle 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. Also handy because that i can come and fix a tape of one place and paint a window and another in and 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 himself with a 30. Not to really be objective and try it you can get people to do it but of course each of the would charge you 100. 00 crippling 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 the tenants i do have are now tending to buy a lot longer than they 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. Right what were going to do is that normal property inspection which are required by the insurance so i would just measure one way around thinking that info ok so lets paint a life as a landlord he eventually did not like compared to my last name most like he does on slate it is like he always gets hit with everything that communication is great points are all ok. He seems super 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 b. S. Youre into garridge what to store things are. You lived in a garret a 450. 00 a week carriage. What happened there that was like all you guys could find yeah we were disappointed at the time everybody would take us how long ago was this year. So maybe if. So this is you your partner your peers. 4 of you living in a garret. Oh my god must have been told in winter yeah because they had like makeshift wonders in there but they were like heaps of guess so every time a brain what come there. 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 have other knowledge where im appreciated and wave of hard and as i said to someone the other guy if you really want to be high to new zealand so you would. But peter has a plan to help tenants gain more rental security offering a 10 year lace. 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. The tenant ward bicycle a rental property that had the floor the wall and the ceiling and they were on floor of a person there are lot for things they would do their own wall decoration they were put in there id have lots of the shoes are current on very current gardens ok and that is an option i would like to see another or may have been difference 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 when theyre older forever and when i talk 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 another reluctantly broken promise for just cinderella turned 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 that the crisis is pretty bad in new zealand so if you think about our house prices in places like opened then nearly 10 times the average household income. The winners of the 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 so. 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 failure. Ground 0 in new zealands housing crisis. With north lenders 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 reverse of that to die in 2020. There are no private rentals are viable or so many of the families live in them like shift caravans busses cattle chutes linked to use and i have 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. Use of a harms that were initially to bring them all. Maori 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 and you created your own little suburb and then yeah. Take a look around. Here they look pretty shabby now yeah they. The prince sitting in oakland and School Holidays and you get a lot of young people go in there and pick holes in walls they still spouting the copper spouting off the surface. 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 looking good. 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. It is not just a builder although thats his skill. But thats not how i know. I know. Because you got a house from the trust. We had nothing and then we gave us a chance and given us i have 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 the 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. Housing and agreements. What did you guys think the 1st time you saw the play. Offs. With the dream people to. Having 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 a major rentals 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 in. 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 im going to live in a team. With. 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 think. Here it. Everyone signs up to strict rules no alcohol or drugs or violence. Yeah 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. Alcohol right. Here. In the former premier there like. That was your childhood yeah only so much monkey hiding. And trying jump in and save her didnt want my turn to be eaten in the arnheim. What does this mean to you when youre growing up like that. Every. 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. Everybody. Hated the poem oh. Yeah oh rickys dream has come a long way since he mortgaged his house that he caught 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 the. People tell him no more no cure. Im not proud to be amongst the poorest the most harmless people not such a beautiful prosperous land that was sort of because he thought. For my own ancestors in fact i know if i came back today and of the balcony situation they would say what the heck did you do i get to with the best of everything. Ive asked the government and Prime Minister to declare a state of emergency for north london housing. Ive told the government that i can fix it completely for 11000000. 00 i will fix it i will put 500. 00 houses a north wind for 11000000. 00. And its a simple effect and one of a sudden. The silent. Its audience the silence is almost deafening it not hear. Hear. Because Many Companies around the world rely on mica to make their products glow but who pays the price for making the beauty business shed written when i went east investigates. On aljazeera. Unprompted and uninterrupted discussions. From our london broadcast center. On aljazeera. 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