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How much demand is that? How many people rent a house a the lower end of the market? How many people are you talking about? How much will it keep prices lower by? How much are they going up by anyway? How much will they cost? How many are being built anyway? How will it affect the quantity of the ones that are being built? How many people will the population be by the time they’re finished being built? How much effect does building of new houses actually have on population? I’ll get my research team right on that. ....
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I know there are people within the National Party who care about this. One told me yesterday he believed that the “defamation for hire” business being conducted wiped tens of millions of dollars off the value of corporate brands. We need to know what was done and how far it extended, and I don’t give a flying shit who is politically embarrassed in the course of finding out. That’s not the point. We need our political leaders, of whatever stripe, to show some decency and find out. And we need, everyone, to shun these people and what they represent. ....
There s another piece of the 1990s puzzle that I see even David Thorns missed. The decision to remove income-related rents was also a response to a Business Roundtable complaint that income-related rents in state housing created unfair competition for private landlords and thus kept rents lower than the market rate (sorry, I don t have a reference for this, but I remember it clearly from an essay I wrote on the subject in 1992). So the expectation, even from the Right, was that removing income-related rents would make rents go up, it s just that they would have viewed the initial increase as a market correction or some other cruel euphemism. The AS was meant to soften the blow of that correction, but I can t imagine they didn t see an associated rent increase as inevitable. I certainly did. Though at the time I think there was some rhetoric about how it wouldn t affect rents because the existence of the supplement would make investment in new rental stock more attractive, o ....