June 18, 2015
Housing plan on shaky ground
Maori Party co-leader Marama Fox says the Government is on shaky ground with its plan to fix Auckland’s housing crisis.
The Government had already picked a fight with iwi in Tamaki Makaurau by earmarking surplus land for its plan without giving them the option to buy it first.
Ms Fox says there’s a clear difference building state housing and making land available for developers under a mixed tenure model.
"Anything you talk about as mixed tenure is all of a sudden not government land, it’s surplus land and it is being sold privately and that should have been included in a redress package or at least offered back to iwi as first right of refusal so shaky ground all around," she says.
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