'It's surprising': Research finds public housing tenants happier, despite lower incomes
'It's surprising': Research finds public housing tenants happier, despite lower incomes
Those in state housing have wellbeing on par with owner-occupiers, new research shows.
I don't think it's surprising, but good research to have backing this up nonetheless. Pretty much every problem in this country can be traced back to the lack of affordable and stable housing. It makes complete sense to me that a state house with security of tenure comes out better than a private rental you know you have for a year at most (and likely less if no cause evictions come back).
Incidentally, the authors of this study have done a lot of research into housing quality too. They found that providing insulation grants for our notoriously cold and damp houses generated savings many times the cost due to less pressure on the health system and fewer sick days from school and work.
Yeah, such as shame that most of the NZ population seems to be so hostile to these kinds of policies. They work, and make life better for everyone.
If the zoning wasn't regulated to benefit existing owners then apartments would be built, plus new townhouses, and these damp decaying places would be $100 a week. If there was an actual housing/rental market (you know, one with real competition, instead of a market that's propped up by government policy) that could work, but I'm not against insulation requirements. If they sent jackboot thugs to inspect homes and threatened to shut them down if landlords didn't comply, I'd fully support it.
State housing is like winning lotto you get a house for dirt cheap. Of course you are going to be happier than the sucker paying $700 a week for the same thing.
State housing is like winning lotto
Only because we haven't built enough of them for decades. This is why we should build much more of them
It's amazing that people find this surprising at all, who'd have thought having a stable roof over your head would make you happier?
Also, state housing normally means they have the house to themselves. I'm not in a state house or owning, I'm stuck in a crowded boarding house with 10 other people. The group that I'm in always has the lowest satisfaction, I'll bet. Everyone is complaining about each other constantly, that's also how we make friends, by bitching constantly about "the indians" who never stop talking loudly, and complaining about the Chinese landlord ripping us off. I'd rather have a stable house that I don't share with others, like an apartment. NZ lives in the past. Can't believe we don't have apartments in the suburbs of christchurch yet..........
Housing co-ops, too. There are solutions that don't require us to drag capitalists out into the street and shoot them!
But that's the fun part...
You're not wrong, but having housing is also fun. Easier to take a day off work to go guillotine billionaires when you're not giving all your money to those same billionaires.
I seriously think that if we want any hope of getting out of the mess we currently are in we need stronger local communities - co-housing could be a very real way to enable that.
Starting locally is the only thing that works imo.
If anyone wants to put money toward buying a plot of land, and filling it up with tiny houses - with a giant community farm - I'm down!
The question really is, will our degenerate government comprised almost entirely of landlords do anything about it?