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What about using all the immigrants to build the extra houses that all the immigrants need? 
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DarthKermit:
What about using all the immigrants to build the extra houses that all the immigrants need?
The irony of this is that there are a re huge number of immigrant tradespeople - with Christchurch being a classic example.
Even elsewhere there are now a lot of Vietnamese interior decorators and tilers around.
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sbiddle:
DarthKermit:
What about using all the immigrants to build the extra houses that all the immigrants need?
The irony of this is that there are a re huge number of immigrant tradespeople - with Christchurch being a classic example.
Even elsewhere there are now a lot of Vietnamese interior decorators and tilers around.
It is a never ending circle where you bring in immigrants, who then need houses themselves, because we don't haven enough houses, who then need more immigrants to come in to build them houses. And then what happens when houses a no longer needed, what do these tradespeople do? The problem is that the government didn't plan for this properly.The end result is that we are all paying far more for housing than we should be.
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mattwnz:
sbiddle:
DarthKermit:
What about using all the immigrants to build the extra houses that all the immigrants need?
The irony of this is that there are a re huge number of immigrant tradespeople - with Christchurch being a classic example.
Even elsewhere there are now a lot of Vietnamese interior decorators and tilers around.
It is a never ending circle where you bring in immigrants, who then need houses themselves, because we don't haven enough houses, who then need more immigrants to come in to build them houses. And then what happens when houses a no longer needed, what do these tradespeople do? The problem is that the government didn't plan for this properly.The end result is that we are all paying far more for housing than we should be.
As long as each one leads to building more than one house it's a win though.
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mattwnz:
sbiddle:
DarthKermit:
What about using all the immigrants to build the extra houses that all the immigrants need?
The irony of this is that there are a re huge number of immigrant tradespeople - with Christchurch being a classic example.
Even elsewhere there are now a lot of Vietnamese interior decorators and tilers around.
It is a never ending circle where you bring in immigrants, who then need houses themselves, because we don't haven enough houses, who then need more immigrants to come in to build them houses. And then what happens when houses a no longer needed, what do these tradespeople do? The problem is that the government didn't plan for this properly.The end result is that we are all paying far more for housing than we should be.
As long as each one leads to building more than one house it's a win though.
Not really because it also means that we need additional infrastructure for that increase in population and housing. So you need more water supply, more sewage, more roading, more schools, hospitals, benefits etc. The increase looks good on paper initally, which is why the previous governments books so good. But there is a payback further down the track, as we ave to pay for the catchup. It is one of the propblems with increasing the population quickly. I believe this was one of WPs complaints about what has been happening over the last decade.
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