ELECTORAL OPTIONS
Party hoardings are up, politicians are on the campaign trail, and policy promises are starting to flow. While lockdown 2.0 may have put election year shenanigans on hold temporarily, with just a few weeks to go until the new election date it’s all go.
However, the activity and atmosphere around election 2020 is somewhat different to that seen in previous elections. At the Labour Party campaign launch in August, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said it would be the “Covid election”.
That has turned out to be the case. There’s simply no escaping the shadow of Covid, with related health, economic and border management issues dominating discourse. It’s a big change from the 2017 election where housing was the number one issue for politicans and voters alike.
In stark contrast, at the time of writing, little has been said on housing related issues by any political party, bar the Greens. So we set out to find out what politicans across the spectrum are promising on the housing front, as well as what property investors hope might emerge. Here’s what we found out ...
LABOUR: INCREASE HOUSING SUPPLY
Kiwibuild’s failure and the eventual decision not to introduce a capital gains tax dominated much of the headlines around
