Not free but subsidised. There's a government department called Housing NZ which owns a lot of property, plus local city councils also make cheap flats available. But there's nowhere near enough and with house prices and rents spiralling out of control a lot of people have been living in their cars. The government has been sitting on its hands. The cynic in me would say a lot of MPs have property investments. There is no capital gains tax in NZ and it's seen as easy money.
As for Wanaka, I don't know if they have any social housing. It's a tourist town which is known as a town of millionaires' holiday homes. Not as bad as Queenstown, the place of billionaires' holiday homes. There was a story in the papers recently about Queenstown airport running out of parking space for private jets... Cheers, Dave > On Feb 24, 2017, at 7:24 PM, Alan C <c...@lantic.net> wrote: > > A fine image, Dave. Doesn't the Gov't provide free housing for the poor? > (Like the RDP houses in SA). Plenty of unused space there & they wouldn't > have water problems. They could fish to survive. > > Alan C > > -----Original Message----- From: David Mann > Sent: Friday, February 24, 2017 7:34 AM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: PESO: Morning at Lake Wanaka > > The light wasn't really in my favour but I took the photo anyway. > > http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/1038/#peso > > I'll just mention that you'd need to show up with about NZ$1M to buy a house > in Wanaka. Want to live on the lake shore? A small lakeside apartment is > more than double that. > > Cheers, > Dave > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
