{"id":8479,"date":"2019-09-04T15:28:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T06:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/04\/new-zealand-scraps-overly-ambitious-plan-to-tackle-housing-crisis"},"modified":"2019-09-04T15:28:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T06:28:55","slug":"new-zealand-scraps-overly-ambitious-plan-to-tackle-housing-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8479","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand scraps &#8216;overly ambitious&#8217; plan to tackle housing crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Major climbdown as Jacinda Ardern\u2019s flagship KiwiBuild policy, designed to provide affordable housing, is dumped<\/p>\n<p>The New Zealand government has scrapped its target to build 100,000 homes in 10 years, saying it was \u201coverly ambitious\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In a major climb-down for the Labour coalition, the flagship KiwiBuild scheme, which was launched in 2018 by prime minister Jacinda Ardern, was dumped and the housing minister unveiled new policies for grappling with the nation\u2019s housing crisis, with hundreds of Kiwis continuing to live in temporary, inadequate or unsafe housing around the country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/04\/new-zealand-scraps-overly-ambitious-plan-to-tackle-housing-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major climbdown as Jacinda Ardern\u2019s flagship KiwiBuild policy, designed to provide affordable housing, is dumpedThe New Zealand government has scrapped its target to build 100,000 homes in 10 years, saying it was \u201coverly ambitious\u201d.In a major climb-dow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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-8479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-housing","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8479","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8480,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8479\/revisions\/8480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}