That explains a lot. We've been trying to find a rental to stay in Queenstown and the prices were a bit of a shock to us.
On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 2:12 PM, David Mann <dmann...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. -- -- Reduce your Government Footprint -- 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.
