Another day and yet another example of the utter failure to deliver on the government’s much-vaunted housing promises:
More than three years after the Government launched a huge development for up to 4000 homes on Unitec land to tackle Auckland’s housing crisis head-on, not a single house has been built.
In March 2018, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern unveiled the development at Unitec’s Te Noho Kotahitanga Marae in her Mt Albert electorate, saying the mix of affordable and open-market housing would include parks, shops and a new school.
The development was the first major plan released under the now-abandoned KiwiBuild programme, with plans for between 3000 and 4000 homes on 26.5ha of land the Government purchased from Unitec.
The idea is to create a new community on the scale of Hobsonville Point, where 4500 homes are past the halfway mark at the former Air Force base in West Auckland.
At the time, Ardern expected work on the Unitec site would begin in 2019, saying housing within the Mt Albert community was “dear to my heart”.
Said then housing minister Phil Twyford: “The Government will not sit around while children are living in cars and families are cramped into overcrowded houses.”
NZ Herald
I’d hate to see what progress would have been made if the project hadn’t been dear to her heart.
The Government might not be happy sitting around while children are living in cars and families are crammed into overcrowded houses, but it seems they are all on board with those same kids and families living in motel rooms.
Let’s face it, Labour couldn’t build a house in a room full of Lego.
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