{"id":30399,"date":"2021-03-31T03:00:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T18:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/31\/new-zealand-readers-say-housing-policy-shake-up-isnt-radical-enough"},"modified":"2021-03-31T03:00:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T18:00:49","slug":"new-zealand-readers-say-housing-policy-shake-up-isnt-radical-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30399","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand readers say housing policy shake-up isn&#8217;t radical enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many readers say last week\u2019s announcement will have little impact on their \u2013 or their children\u2019s \u2013 ability to buy a house<\/p>\n<p>Last week we asked Guardian readers about the government\u2019s attempt to rein in New Zealand\u2019s runaway house prices. We heard from investors and renters, first-home buyers and retirees. While some readers \u2013 including investors \u2013 were supportive, many felt the policy changes didn\u2019t go far enough.<\/p>\n<p>Some pointed out that beefed-up grants to first-home buyers would make little impact in markets such as Wellington and Auckland, with young people still despairing of ever getting a foot on the housing ladder. Many said that the effect on renters had been overlooked, arguing in favour of German-style rent control. Others said they were afraid for their children\u2019s future, while some wrote that they feared they would never be able to afford children.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/31\/new-zealand-readers-say-housing-policy-shake-up-isnt-radical-enough\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many readers say last week\u2019s announcement will have little impact on their \u2013 or their children\u2019s \u2013 ability to buy a houseLast week we asked Guardian readers about the government\u2019s attempt to rein in New Zealand\u2019s runaway house prices. We heard from inv&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1764,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,697,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-housing","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1764"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30400,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30399\/revisions\/30400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}