{"id":29445,"date":"2020-12-02T11:52:24","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T22:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propertynoise.co.nz\/au\/?p=29445"},"modified":"2024-03-01T20:48:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T07:48:07","slug":"jacinda-ardern-partly-blames-new-zealand-public-for-housing-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertynoise.co.nz\/au\/jacinda-ardern-partly-blames-new-zealand-public-for-housing-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacinda Ardern partly blames New Zealand public for housing crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHOTO: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. FILE<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern<\/a> is receiving backlash online after saying the public is partly to blame for failure to tackle the housing crisis.<\/p>\n

Last week Reserve Bank Governor Adrian Orr<\/a> told media the issue wasn’t identifying the problem, it was that politicians lacked “appetites for accepting policy recommendations”.<\/p>\n

But this week Ardern shifted blame for fixing the problem to Kiwis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“I would say that actually the appetite for some of these policies also needs to come from the public,” she told TVNZ on Monday.<\/p>\n

“We’ve tried three times now to do things that specifically sit in that taxation category and there hasn’t been wide support for that.”<\/p>\n

Ardern<\/a> ruled out a capital gains tax\u00a0under her leadership in April 2019 after Labour and the Greens were unable to reach a consensus with New Zealand First.<\/p>\n

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— Chl\u00f6e Swarbrick (@_chloeswarbrick) November 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n