The post addresses rising housing costs and the cost of living, criticizing the government's inaction on affordable housing and price increases.
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Well, basically, what we need to do is get the politics out of it because politicians really uh well, for example, we wouldn't be asking the Minister of Finance to uh set interest rates right. We have already learned from that lesson that ministers are not good at setting the official cash rate. Um, and we basically have delegated that to an independent body, the reserve bank, basically because they've got the technical skill and they're also uh independent, so they are capable actually following through, being time consistent, basically uh tying those to the mast and doing what's required. So price stability is not a master m a matter for ministers, it is really a matter for technical experts. Yeah. And the type of expertise that's required in this case is really uh urban economics. Um and it's basically just about helping communities get the economics right and thrive.
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replacing political targets with economic metrics
Benno Blaschke: NZ Initiative Research Fellow on the suggestion to replace housing targets with price indicators, remove politics from housingSocial-media signal on the same topic, drawn from the social lens. Engagement is likes + 2×shares + 3×replies, the same weighting used across the digest cards. View on /social →
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