apollo11 wrote:

I agree, they will do nothing. The only fix would be to either sharply reduce demand (population) or to strip away all of the 'enhancements' to the building code, support councils and developers in creating subdivisions, and allow the mass importation of building supplies. None of that is likely to happen.

What building supplies do we need to import en masse???? Perhaps we know longer have the facilites to produce many of the products we formally did such as bathroom items etc but really, we have the materials and processing plants for much of the core needs of many buildings or is just a case of like primary produce harvesting. 'Real' work is to hard - everybody wants to feel justified that to earn a living you should be a keyboard warrior

brouser3 - 2021-02-10 11:39:00

Looks like the RMA is going to be scrapped. That was one announcement I wasn’t expecting. Even Judith has offered an olive branch to get it done.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/436124/government-plans
-to-scrap-30-year-old-resource-management-act

sw20 - 2021-02-10 11:41:00

With any changes to it I don't think it would lead to reduction in house prices. Obviously one of the things going forward is maybe the global trend of the emphasis in longer term rent culture.

In some countries they have more lease hold properties or public housing to normal working families. I wonder if kiwis could get a family home that might be more affordable but it doesn't have the land and land rent is pegged would they be at all interested or would they still be interested in owning their own land and wanting that the land appreciation?

rayonline_tm - 2021-02-10 11:53:00

sw20 wrote:

Looks like the RMA is going to be scrapped

Woop woop - here comes the next shoddy building crisis

funkydunky - 2021-02-10 12:40:00

sw20 wrote:

Looks like the RMA is going to be scrapped. That was one announcement I wasn’t expecting. Even Judith has offered an olive branch to get it done.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/436124/government-plans
-to-scrap-30-year-old-resource-management-act

Typical... National tried to do this (reform the RMA) 4-5 years ago.

They even asked Labour to help but, of course, Labour refused cross benches help/support (as they are refusing now).

Edited by loose.unit8 at 12:46 pm, Wed 10 Feb

loose.unit8 - 2021-02-10 12:46:00

funkydunky wrote:

Woop woop - here comes the next shoddy building crisis

Suspending parts of the RMA worked well after the earthquakes to get building going hard and to stablise house prices here, up until last year.

Edited by loose.unit8 at 12:48 pm, Wed 10 Feb

loose.unit8 - 2021-02-10 12:47:00

sw20 wrote:

Looks like the RMA is going to be scrapped. That was one announcement I wasn’t expecting. Even Judith has offered an olive branch to get it done.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/436124/government-plans
-to-scrap-30-year-old-resource-management-act

The plan is to in 2022 and a little country waits

mkr_ahearn - 2021-02-10 12:49:00

NZ Herald
New Zealand's outdated master act for the environment will be scrapped and replaced with three new ones, helping tackle a spiralling housing crisis and climate change threats.

The Government today confirmed it would repeal and replace the Resource Management Act this term - marking one of the biggest regulatory shake-ups in the environment space in New Zealand's history.

Three pieces of legislation will replace the RMA.

In its place would come a core Natural and Built Environments Act (NBA), focused on land use and environmental regulation; the Strategic Planning Act (SPA) pulling together laws around development; and the Climate Change Adaptation Act (CAA) focused on managed retreat and its funding.

Edited by aklreels at 1:20 pm, Wed 10 Feb

aklreels - 2021-02-10 13:20:00

funkydunky wrote:

Woop woop - here comes the next shoddy building crisis

It's the RMA, not the building code.

luteba - 2021-02-10 13:27:00

aklreels wrote:

Resigned to a dysfunctional state? Surely no, there is hope. And we must ask that our leaders do what must be done. A retirement scheme sounds good, greed does not.
I will want to see NZ ers able to raise a family, safe, in their own homes.

sorry, but no leader will EVER do what needs to be done.
to fix it properly, so average joe blog for generations to come can afford a home, is a permeant career ender.
kiwis are simply to addicted to making money out of housing, kiwis will snort the profit from housing until they crash and burn and hit rock bottom. then they will do it all over again.
no govt will survive taking away kiwis snuff.

tweake - 2021-02-10 18:08:00

sw20 wrote:

Looks like the RMA is going to be scrapped. That was one announcement I wasn’t expecting. Even Judith has offered an olive branch to get it done.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/436124/government-plans
-to-scrap-30-year-old-resource-management-act

The olive branch (Noah) and dove were signs of new life on the earth not peace.

trogedon - 2021-02-27 16:08:00

This message was deleted.

kittycatkin - 2021-02-27 16:23:00

This message was deleted.

kittycatkin - 2021-02-27 16:25:00

This message was deleted.

kittycatkin - 2021-02-27 16:27:00

This message was deleted.

kittycatkin - 2021-02-27 16:29:00

This message was deleted.

kittycatkin - 2021-02-27 16:30:00

loose.unit8 wrote:

Typical... National tried to do this (reform the RMA) 4-5 years ago.

They even asked Labour to help but, of course, Labour refused cross benches help/support (as they are refusing now).

Replace one act with three?
Hmmmmm - Sounds like typical Labour growing the bureaucracy. Will need to employ more public servants to tick boxes and have meetings...

pcle - 2021-02-28 07:15:00

Government competing with FHBs by spending $750M certainly doesn't help.
And they have no qualms out bidding all private buyers at auction. Got blown away by HNZ once myself.
https://thebfd.co.nz/2021/02/28/speculators-blamed-for-housi
ng-issues-youll-never-guess-who-the-biggest-one-is/

pcle - 2021-02-28 09:34:00