The Labour party and Jacinda Ardern are campaigning on their record over the last three years. Ardern herself has stated that we should know them by their deeds.
When in Opposition, the Labour party campaigned strongly on homelessness. It was a sore point for National and one which they were severely exposed on.
So how have they done on solving homelessness?
Not very well it seems.
David Farrar exposes their failure:
In September 2017 there were 4,054 on the Priority A waiting list for Housing NZ. These are families who have been assessed as in urgent need of a house.
Labour said 4,054 was a scandal. They said they wanted to abolish homelessness.
In June 2020 there are now 16,651 families on the Priority A waiting list. As Labour has heaped costs on landlords, rents have skyrocketed and the end result is a 400% increase in those deemed in urgent need of housing.
Know us by our deeds, Ardern said. Well, their deeds show a worsening problem of homelessness.
This is worse than a small, insignificant increase, this is actually going backwards.
It is yet another failure of this government, which couldn’t build houses, couldn’t build light rail to the airport, or rapid rail to Hamilton. Now they’ve failed in a very demonstrable way on homelessness.
When Labour says “Let’s Keep Moving” perhaps they mean moving backwards?
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