Zardnaar
Deity
As the title says. Things are a bit messed up atm but the causes have been there for decades.
There's a lot of ideas out there as to the most important things to focus on.
Here the big problem is affordable housing. Every other problems mostly stems from that. Less cash on the table (paying rent/mortage) makes every other problem worse.
Throwing more money at it eg increasing benefits, student allowances etc causes inflation and gets eaten up in rent increases.
My solution here at least is tailored for NZs problems but broadly speaking here's what I would do.
1. Taxes go up.
2. Use that tax money to build a new city.
3. Sane immigration policy. Make it very easy for critical skills need to migrate, otherwise work out how many people we actually need and issue that many visas.
Anyway the new city is because if nimbyism it's to hard and slow to build in existing locations. Building a new city also doesn't provide reasons to relocate there. That's where the rest of the money from tax increases comes into play.
Said city is gonna be medium density apartments. They will be government owned and very cheap/free to rent.
We are also short of various specialists. New city is going to be an education hub specialized in things like trades, healthcare, teaching so it's a campus city. I would also locate a military base nearby we need another one of them.
So cheap/free rent and new education facility as key industry. Education here is also free. If you want a free tertiary education you have to move here vs existing cities. The freeze/cheap apartments also supplied to younger families eg under 30 with kids.
So that's the basic idea government money that needs to be spent gets consolidated in an area where land is cheap and there's no restrictions in building up. There's incentives to move there due to cheap living costs.
Reduces pressure on popular places to live, provide cheap place to live for students, young families, and increase the amount of critical skills needed which has not kept up with population growth.
There's a lot of ideas out there as to the most important things to focus on.
Here the big problem is affordable housing. Every other problems mostly stems from that. Less cash on the table (paying rent/mortage) makes every other problem worse.
Throwing more money at it eg increasing benefits, student allowances etc causes inflation and gets eaten up in rent increases.
My solution here at least is tailored for NZs problems but broadly speaking here's what I would do.
1. Taxes go up.
2. Use that tax money to build a new city.
3. Sane immigration policy. Make it very easy for critical skills need to migrate, otherwise work out how many people we actually need and issue that many visas.
Anyway the new city is because if nimbyism it's to hard and slow to build in existing locations. Building a new city also doesn't provide reasons to relocate there. That's where the rest of the money from tax increases comes into play.
Said city is gonna be medium density apartments. They will be government owned and very cheap/free to rent.
We are also short of various specialists. New city is going to be an education hub specialized in things like trades, healthcare, teaching so it's a campus city. I would also locate a military base nearby we need another one of them.
So cheap/free rent and new education facility as key industry. Education here is also free. If you want a free tertiary education you have to move here vs existing cities. The freeze/cheap apartments also supplied to younger families eg under 30 with kids.
So that's the basic idea government money that needs to be spent gets consolidated in an area where land is cheap and there's no restrictions in building up. There's incentives to move there due to cheap living costs.
Reduces pressure on popular places to live, provide cheap place to live for students, young families, and increase the amount of critical skills needed which has not kept up with population growth.