Housing
Whānau Build
“Ko te whare e tū ana ki te pārae he kai nā te ahi, ko te whare e tū ana ki te pātūwatawata koina te tohu o te rangatira”
Executive Summary
Our Rights
All whānau have a right to a constant, warm, leak-free secure home.
All tāmariki have a right to a warm, safe home with the same health, welfare and support systems wrapped around them that non-Māori take for granted.
Our Injustices
New Zealanders all know there is a housing crisis, even non-Maori live in cars, garages and under hedges. However, it is only when non-Māori also suffer in a housing crisis that the Government then decide to do something.
A Māori voice and position has never been heard, we suffer in silence as second-class citizens in our own land. We are an afterthought, not a forethought.
The Maori Party will;
1. Build 2000 houses on our ancestral lands and we will do this in the next two years.
2. Ensure fifty percent of all new social housing allocated to Māori to give our Whānau and tamariki a fair go in education, health and welfare.
3. Stop all sales of freehold land to offshore foreign interests.
4. Place a 2% tax on the capital value of a vacant or empty house if they remain unoccupied for 3 months or longer in any one year.
5. The Overseas Investment Act must apply to all residential housing purchases as many of these ghost/vacant houses are owned by foreign interests.
6. Add a Capital Gains Tax on all property set at 2% of the appreciation per annum – other than on the whānau home.
7. Ensures the Government re-enter the housing market to develop and build state housing stock.