It follows the government’s termination of its goal to build 100,000 homes within 10 years
Judith Collins, National’s housing spokeswoman, is offering to help the government fix the housing crisis.
Her move follows the government’s termination of its goal to build 100,000 houses within 10 years. Instead, it focused on new initiatives – including reducing the deposit for first-home buyers from 10% to 5%.
Collins previously criticised the government’s reset – even describing it as a “damp squib” and a retreat from the government’s “flashy” promises.
However, she sang a different tune at TVNZ’s Breakfast, emphasising that the national and labour parties should be working together to solve the issue.
"I'm all for first home buyers, all for the market all for getting building done and I just think let's just put aside politics, let's just get it done, I can help you do it, that's what I'm saying to the Labour Party," Collins told TVNZ.
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Collins said she has been offering an “olive branch” to the labour party for the last two years to work on the Resource Management Act (RMA) reform.
“We [National] were always a minority Government, as are the current Government, that is why it was such a shame that Labour refused to do any work with my predecessor Nick Smith or Amy Adams in this area,” she said.
However, when asked about her thoughts on the government’s rent-to-buy scheme, she insisted to have more detail.
"I would really like to see detail and I see we're not expected to get any until December - that's awfully close to election year. It's a bit difficult to comment on a policy where it's just really a headline," Collins concluded.
