annie17111 wrote:

I really hope not, my parents action and house is way bigger than ours and they have no plans of moving anytime soon and my dad is late 60s. My boss is 73 and still working and has a huge garden and big house.
I'm only 39 so a few more years yet, and figure we will just build a granny flat and one of the kids can take over the house.

Late 60s isn't old these days, many are still working that I know and some are still in physical jobs but eventually something forces them to retire, hopefully still in good health. My husband dying after a very short terminal illness (he was still working) had me subdividing our few acres and move to a smaller place on the block I kept but I will have to downsize again within a few years as it is expensive paying someone to do the jobs he used to do and I physically can't.

Edited by kacy5 at 6:39 pm, Sat 21 Nov

kacy5 - 2020-11-21 18:34:00

artemis wrote:

Sounds good. Selling and buying is really expensive, highly stressful and with no guarantee of happiness. IMO instead of paying real estate agents there's an opportunity to use that money to pay people to help with the house and the garden.

yeah our section is easy care and I love it here. It's not a big house so won't be rattling around in it in ten years when the kids have moved out.

annie17111 - 2020-11-21 19:28:00

Peter Dunne has the solution - not more working groups - a whole National Summit should fix the "crisis".
https://www.interest.co.nz/opinion/108064/pass-parcel-game-h
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How many houses will that junket build I wonder - 0?

Edited by pcle at 8:22 am, Mon 23 Nov

pcle - 2020-11-23 08:22:00

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gunna-1 - 2020-11-24 00:45:00

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gunna-1 - 2020-11-24 01:35:00

J Collins
"... it was "bizarre" after "having come into Government in 2017 on a big housing agenda, KiwiBuild was the answer, all of a sudden after three years of failure, apparently it's all the public's fault".

A reply from J Adern
"Perhaps the member would like to tell us who is to blame for the 65 per cent increase we had under National"

My take
...much ado...rather that they sit down together have a pleasant conversation .....and take a non partisan approach.

aklreels - 2020-12-03 07:21:00

aklreels wrote:

J Collins
"... it was "bizarre" after "having come into Government in 2017 on a big housing agenda, KiwiBuild was the answer, all of a sudden after three years of failure, apparently it's all the public's fault".

A reply from J Adern
"Perhaps the member would like to tell us who is to blame for the 65 per cent increase we had under National"

My take
...much ado...rather that they sit down together have a pleasant conversation .....and take a non partisan approach.

That's just diverting attention from the issue, we're talking about now, she is in charge of this, she has the power to fix it, she was elected on a promise to do it

Let's do this for the team of 5 million, we're all in it together after all

deendon1 - 2020-12-03 10:31:00

The problems are well known; supply has been strangled for years by red-tape.
And blaming immigrants was a distraction, proved wrong since the borders closed.
How can Australia, USA and many other countries with higher labour rates make better houses cheaper?
When will politicians actually DO SOMETHING about the RMA, and maybe allow competition in the supply chain?

masturbidder - 2020-12-03 10:53:00