07-31-2022, 04:24 PM
NZ historically had "state housing" which was (literal) houses built and owned by the government; conservative governments sold off a bunch of them, and the current Labour government has been trying to build more, with not much success yet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_housing
Wikipedia says that the peak number was 70,000 state houses in the early 90s, on a population of 3.5 million at the time. I guess that is 7,000 state houses for a population of 350k (within an order of magnitude of KW today), which is a lot more than 750 houses for Kitchener's 200k. The goal is to produce 1000 new state houses a year right now, but I don't think they're anywhere close to that production rate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_housing
Wikipedia says that the peak number was 70,000 state houses in the early 90s, on a population of 3.5 million at the time. I guess that is 7,000 state houses for a population of 350k (within an order of magnitude of KW today), which is a lot more than 750 houses for Kitchener's 200k. The goal is to produce 1000 new state houses a year right now, but I don't think they're anywhere close to that production rate.