New Zealand has 100,000 empty homes, and 100,000 homeless people 

It's done on purpose all by design

Socalism higher taxes causes it not capitalism. Home costs more to build why less built blame socialist leaders in government home ownership harder

The price of Auckland rent is too much ,so I moved to Rotorua.

I’m living in over in Melbourne working in tunnel construction earning good money there is no way I could move back home it’s just the wage isn’t enough and everything is getting expensive.

@@Will.Flavell We have moved home, my wife and I, from Adelaide and when we're done looking after my better half's parents, we are moving right back again. Auckland is a shit hole, West Auckland is a fucken battleground, not the place I left 20 years ago.

Agree for sure but so many stories in different ways the government can be using the re form method for no to low wage or income ppl also homelessness & addict's so it can make changes to the future of NZ economy. Due to our circumstances we are unable to use our transfered super from Australia with a substantial amount and small NZ $ deposit to get into our first buy home in NZ due to not enough in Kiwisaver & deposit also unable to use transfer AU super funds but the NZ Government procedures has made it hard & with paying rent in NZ & its very high for a decent home to comfortably live in as it would be considered dead rent when it could be paying a mortgage.

@@lianalambert406 Yeah, trying to use anything Australia related here in New Zealand is hard. We were thinking about using our house in Australia as collateral to buy a commercial property to work out of here and It's not possible it seems. You can do it the other way easily enough though. We are just going to look after my wifes parents for a while and go back to Australia.

Housing is a product created by the bankers. So is currency and the fractional reserve system. The system that said the banks had to hold 10% of your money they lent out to others at interest. Now it's 0%. It's also not based in any real value and is printed at will. But you have to borrow and pay interest. And then aaaaaall the taxes. And the hidden tax called inflation. Do the maths per dollar.

There is no middle class anymore

​@@gregkareem9824you dumb with money why you aren't in middle class! Alot of idiots waste money on unnecessary liabilities shit

The government taxes me to much how am I selfish

@@coopsnz1 Government taxes have very little effect on the super rich in New Zealand. With 10% of the population controlling the other 90%, chances are you are in the 90% just like everyone else. There is a documentary on RU-vid called "who owns New Zealand now?". It's worth watching.

@@starquant the more you spend in new Zealand the more you tax ,. The same with driving more fuel ⛽️ tax

@@coopsnz1 That's not what I was even talking about. Yes, everyone has the same expenditures, but if you are the working poor that makes up the majority of population, it keeps you poor enough that you will never own anything. This was going in the 1990's. I remember people breaking into my home just to steal food. Nothing has changed, it just got worse. How much is GST in N.Z now?... 15%. Well, let them eat cake I say. There is a class above this and these trivial "tax" problems cause them little or no concern.

​@@starquant higher farming costs & transport costs because of fuel ⛽️ tax increasing = higher prices for consumers equal poor worse off aswell

Government increases your taxes why you struggle

Home doesn't cost $400k to build now blame government greed

The Maori sold a lot of their land to the Chinese. Like many governments globally sold out their people and their lands.

nice bit off waffle withouting making a point

Nah stay in auckland bro it's quiet here let's keep it that way

@@purew.a.s.p6369 Point's pretty simple. Empty houses don't really impact on the ability to fix homelessness since they're not near health, social services, employment, or anything resembling stuff that would help homeless people.

so go buy them a pie u nob

@@purew.a.s.p6369 Genius! I never thought of buying them food! ...idiot.

@@ctakitimu thts right mate thnk of all the lives u culd have saved

@@purew.a.s.p6369 some tell you to get F..ked I want money not food so ruin it for others.

@@purew.a.s.p6369 no need to be name calling, be kind

Malaysia is a religious country, no alcohol abuse, domestic violence, pre martial relations etc which all contribute to decay of society

Developed countries are unfortunately also some of the greediest countries

Malaysia housing is so cheap it's not even funny

​@@1legend517the government crooks taxation theft

David i totally agree.My best friend has 3 rentals rented out and the last one failed the healthy homes because he had a 6kw heatpump and needed a 6.2kw.The house is lovely and much better than my own house.End of the day all 3 houses are now empty.

Yes, let’s have the government take over housing, because they haven’t done anything in the past couple years that demonstrates a concern of government control... Just take a little penetration of the skin, and you can have a flat...

@@NoOneToNoOne89 - Will the private sector do any better considering that have done very little over the years. Also, you seem have forgot that successive government's has done much to relieve the problem of the last 40 years.

I can't think of a clearer international example of a failure of government to build low cost housing than the current government. Now into it's second term. And I happen to know something about the subject on an international scale since 1974. The problem is not the existence of the private sector. Not at all. The problem in NZ is a very simple problem to solve but there it a lack of political will. For just one example, Auckland Isthmus. Auckland Isthmus has at least 5 eighteen hole golf courses. 2 are council owned. Waikumete Cemetery is 108 hectares. One third of the private property in the Auckland Isthmus can not be built up in order to protect the view these wealthy properties enjoy - called viewshafts. These are all ridiculously wasteful uses of space. It is ludicrous. They combine with other factors to make Auckland Isthmus property extremely expensive. Which has a flow on effect on prices for the rest of Auckland. Which has a flow on effect all the way down the chain. All this is totally unnecessary and very easily resolved at minimum cost to government. It could all be fixed with a stroke of the pen. That is just one example. New Zealand doesn't have a housing problem. It doesn't have a private sector problem. It has an intelligence problem. What is lacking is the political will. Mostly due to the people's ignorance of what these ridiculous polices end up costing the average person. It's much better for Labour politicians sitting in their Auckland Isthmus homes to tell their voters that it is the fault of the evil landlords. And their voters lap it all up. You think Adern in her Sandringham home (close to Helen Clark's similar Mt Eden home) is going to tell you there is something wrong with her north facing single dwelling on a 643m2 block. Noooo. No. The problem is the big bad private sector. Coz,...... feelings.

@@DavesShed - National and Act doesn't have any plans either other than their standard comments lets the market decide on car centric urban sprawl and more motorways. NZ is so addicted yo neolib economic and governance with its3 yearly, quick fix solutions had created complacency when it came to housing until a pesky virus appeared upsetting this neolib complacency.

@@chrismckellar9350 "National and Act doesn't have any plans either" - I can believe that. However the answer is to lobby for a suite of policies that dramatically increase supply from the private sector. Simple really.

How hard is it actually? Are people kind for the most part in your city. I chatted with a homeless guy recently and he said he's actually quite happy and knows where to get everything he needs. He might have been lying of course

@@ctakitimu he would have been lieing he's there for the drugs kao you get turned away from alot of places worn and income jobs motels!! They don't care literally give it 100 percent it doesn't work all your hard work for years just trying to live a normal life forget it!! Money hungry privlaged Govt and labour

Im so sorry

NZ allows people to buy homes and just use them as investments for holding wealth, causing a massive shortage for most of the younger generation

I was married at 19 ànd had to work 2 jobs leaving me 4 hours sleep for a 24hr period, I can't believe people are homeless if they don't get off there are and make an effort

Your typical landlord will not complain very loudly. They simply leave it empty. The government has made it uneconomical to rent the house out until it can be knocked down. So the landlord just leaves it empty. Which means the landlord is not getting income. Which means it will be even more years before they can afford to knock down and build new. Ask yourself; If it is so easy to buy and old home and keep it up to standard then why are people renting?

@@DavesShed because Dave not everyone in this country has the privilege of saving for a home especially those who live on the poverty line and when investors just buy homes willy billy then that creates more problems tell me should an individual really own more than two homes max?

@@aperaruapeeta4309 Having been homeless and below the poverty line more than once in my life I think I'm qualified to answer this. Yes an individual should be allowed to own more than two homes. If not, then there would be few houses available for rent and those that were available would be owned by corporations. The problem is not mum and dad investing in housing. The problem is a lack of supply. Which is easily fixed by removing restrictions. For example, there are five 18 hole golf courses on Auckland Isthmus. There is a cemetery which takes up 108 hectares. One third of the private property is not allowed to build up because it will impact the nice view the wealthy people living in that Isthmus enjoy. These are all ridiculous uses of space close to the CBD - which drive land prices up through the roof in the whole of greater Auckland. How many 18 hole golf courses and 108 hectare cemeteries do you think there in central Tokyo, or London or New York or any city with half a brain? Of course many people can never save enough to buy a house when we have such ridiculous limits on supply. What other outcome would we expect? You are playing into these rich people's hands by re-directing the problem towards mum and dad investors. What you should be asking is in what way is it reasonable for anybody (especially the Prime Minister) to own a single dwelling on 643m2 of land in Sandringham? In what way is it reasonable to limit the height of residential housing in the Isthmus to protect rich people's views? If they want a view, they can move to Warkworth. We don't have a housing crisis. We have an urban planning failure, which could be fixed with the stroke of a pen. And that's just the Isthmus. I could go on and on about the policy failure to provide supply. No the problem is not investing in residential property. Actually we want investors to build more homes. Lots of them. That is the only thing that will drive down prices.

agreed!! sick of all the Maoris blaming everyone and sitting on their arses all day.

Get a grip clown it ain't just maori homelessness can reach all areas of society in the current climate all it takes is an unforeseen business closure, ppl out of work been struggling already to pay food, rent etc etc then suddenly behind on rent and have to move..... Now in emergency housing and they're just can't seem to catch a break... M

unfortunately they get damaged by unruly tenants which home owners are afraid of...

Thanks to all the MANDATES!!

why would i lend out my holiday home to a brokie

get a job

Extremely disingenuous. Change the tax incentives instead of 10year old child logic of empty homes = put homeless in privately owned empty homes by force. Ive slept in a van and a tent.

Let me guess it's Jacindas doing.

OK but where did the "new renters" come from? Another house lol

yor spiting hairs save tht bs 4 the talk back

Thank you. The documentary didn't address my burning question - why? Why would someone have an asset - on which they are having to pay rates every month - and don't use it - don't live in it, don't rent it out, don't sell it, etc. You have explained some of the reasons.

No. And poor people are every bit as greedy.

I dont think thts the solution at all. There should be affordable housing for low income, poor families that the rich legally cannot touch. Its for them. Let the rich hv their big expensive houses. Let the poor just hv a god damn home. How is the poor so profitable for the rich when they barely have pennys?

No the government become richer when profit increase for business = higher prices for consumers

The pakeha are a plauge that won't stop

@@charliebrown6514 actuall we are a dying race, there are more other races here than us now , look into it mate

​@@charliebrown6514 racist lol