Luxon kills the hopes of Townhouse Nation

The Kākā by Bernard Hickey · May 25, 2023 · 28m

TL;DR: National Leader Christopher Luxon looks set to abandon within weeks the bipartisan ‘Townhouse Nation’ policy agreed and championed by his deputy Nicola Willis and his housing spokesman Chris Bishop.

He has caved to the NIMBYs in his party who are campaigning to stop houses being built anywhere near them for all the migrants they (paradoxically) want employed to provide the services they need to keep living in those houses. These NIMBYs essentially want new New Zealanders to drive much longer to work than they already do, and are relaxed or unaware about the brutally high housing costs…