me second 😂

We need to AI upscale this video. Get Back style if you know what I mean

Great response regarding tourism costs burdening citizens, while profits benefit a select few. I personally care less about the economic angle and more about the demographic costs to this issue.

If it quacks like a duck…

😂😂😂 This guy’s a hoot!

“HOW DOES HE KNOW” - I think the tone says it all. Triggered.

You can read what the journalists write and figure it out.

Mass immigration is a vicious circle….it leads to the perceived need for more immigration….but now we are simply importing low skilled, cheap labour from the third world and they are bringing their entire family with them….this is precisely why our public system is over run….

14:00 we all know who is behind it. *rubs hands*

Pakeha and everyone else 😂

You brought out some good comments on NZ's decline from Duncan. Nice work.

We, along with most countries, I assume, have a trade deficit with the most productive nation on earth. If you want affordable stuff made by people in the most productive nation on earth. Then you need to trade something. We are swapping land for imports.

WTF

Where is the information about the oppression and colonisation? The words you use most frequently are um, you know, like, yeah and vibe.

If you have buyers with cash and a shortage of supply it will drive prices up, if these are Asian buyers then it's true and Mayor Smith needs to wake up. The sooner Nelson has an election to get him out the better.

Asian or not . If foreign buyers have more cash than Kiwis . Then Kiwis lose out . And it's a fact most of them are Asian.

I recall economic historian Neville Bennet writing that the "[housing] market is now internationalised", and thinking WTF? Why isn't it linked to the local economy? As Ranginui Walker noted, immigration, is "being used as a "tool for economic development".

If it's a Fact, then it isn't racist

This must be dated

Young New Zealanders are now slaves to Asian money owners. Only the top 30% could even dream to afford children.

nick smith is the racist

Both governments along with the banks turned houses into a pseudo stock market. From the mid 1980s the theory was borrow as much as possible for a house because if you couldn't afford it you would make a sizeable quick profit on the way withou paying any tax. FOMO created the momentum for the exponential increase in house prices, in Auckland nowhere was safe from investors leveraged to the hilt building rental portfolios. Those on the lowest of wages could not even afford the roughest areas anymore and so began the rise of the landlord class and the now really struggling class. It was extremely sad, unecessary and creating the biggest social and fiscal problem to hit New Zealand. Our major cities still require low skilled labour this won't change, but they could not only afford mortgage, they were struggling to pay rent. Those families being topped up were being subsidised through the tax payer often the next tier up and they were struggling as well. It is lunacy for a country to have a large amount of retirees who ned both a pension and a living allowance. I am no socialist but there is a responsibilty for all governments to ensure a balanced social and fiscal state every day they are running the country. In our haste to trade with China and appease them I believe both National and Labour prostituted their public for fiscal gain. If the housing market crashes it should be no surprise to those who expected it and the worst nightmare for many.

South East Asians that move to Australia work harder, pay just as much tax, are much more likely to be taken advantage of, buy a house, less likely to commit a crime, far more likely to have a small business and use less public resources than the typical "Aussie". Not to mention they represent a minuet number in our prison systems (especially when you remove the Vietnamese from the ratio) Lets not forget that the violence against Asian Australians was a all time high during Covid and the racism/discrimination/racial stereotypes the second gen Australians cop while growing up in school AND their work place. Bamboo ceilings exists and many like myself have to try harder to "Fit" into a society I was born in. We need to work harder, complain less and take less time off. They are the model citizens when you compare them to Britain, New Zealanders or any other immigration group in Australia. www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/crime-and-justice/prisoners-australia/latest-release www.aic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-05/tandi150.pdf en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_Australians#:~:text=At%20the%202021%20census%2C%20the,percent%20from%20South%2DEast%20Asia. www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/australias-population-country-birth/latest-release

Labour party allowed 250,000 immigrants in New Zealand in 2023. 42,000 homes were built in 2023. Immigrants are using up all the available houses. now none are left and you have to pay high prices because of low supply, high demand. If you want immigration, set the immigration rate to the amount of houses built the year before.

Prices are high because we're being outbid by wealthier people, whether that's foreign Asian money, property companies, or rich kids getting backing from their parents, the problem is increasing wealth inequality.

Identifying a persons background is not an issue, applying prejudice on the basis of that background and I would like to think that those that aspire to politics have the intellectual acumen to appreciate that. You have to ask does this politician have that or is there something even more sinister going in here?

Facts are racist then.

Oh the towering mind that Nick Smith........ put 3 planks together to get anything as thick......

Maoris are busy crying about Whitey their own Chiefs invited to settle here when in reality in 50 years NZ will either be Indian or Asian majority and they will not give a fook about Maoris or The Treaty Of Waitangi. Nick Smith is just another wealth elitist Globalist who doesn't give a crap our culture Brown or White or Kiwi, he just wants cheap labor and division so were kept down while his Class take more of everything including control.

well this aged well - foreign buyer ban did happen and it still went up in fact a lot more

of course over seas buyers are pushing the housing market up and shame on real estate agents for advertising in china

nick is in denial

I can’t buy a house in China, so why can they here

Ahh thats the price you pay to live in paradise....

Great historic video!! Early 2000s, I would guess, before things went mad. No foreigner is allowed to own property in China. Why have NZ politicians sold this country by the acre to foreign buyers? Answer; hedonistic greed. And the population loved it too. Foreign countries loved it as well, as it gave them the opportunity to buy strategic coastline and farming assets. Getting rich on property revaluations (on paper), doing nothing, not being taxed, became the only game in town. This is NZ.

The insider trader John Keys,let criminals wash dirty money in the New Zealand housing market. But the problem is mass immigration which push up prices on housing .,0 immigration can solve part of the problem with house prices and high rents.Investers should pay capital gains tax of 25%.

Migration is a disaster down by political stooges planted by United Nations interfering in our country pushing migration on us dumping them through Auckland which doesn't make enough money as they live off the rest of the country and Multicultural is a failure 3 million is all the people can afford and as most people here are subsidised by the taxpayer

This is a very dishonest collection of misleading cuts by cultural dementia using material over the last two decades as current. Lianne Dalziel was Minister of Immigration probably 17-19 years ago. At a meeting supporting Lianne Dalziel in the 2005 election at Canterbury University, Lianne is a fragile beauty and certainly a friend of the PM at the time. Dalziel was giving me a farewell embrace with her parliamentary staff, saying 'Lianne time for the airport.' and her staff just lifted her up and away.That was fairly standard in that desperate electorate. I can be remember being embraced by Alliance candidate Lailla Harre ( a one time Clark minister) with Jim Anderton saying to Lailla, ' he only wants you for your body Lailla'. That was politics in that era. The threat of a Brash government which was a stalking horse for Bill English and Judith Collins , Country part suthoritarianism. Winston Peters is one of a handful of strong supporters of the US and molitary relations in this country. Mych of Winston and Marks view on social policy and other matters is out of date and wrong. On immigration matters he is not remotely extreme or irresponsible compared with Suella and Farange. It is difficult to know what percentage of the NZ population has maori ancestry, what percentage supports the more radical Maori empiwerment.calls and the fact is anyone can call themselves a Maori by ticking that box in the.census indeed they are encouraged to do by retired Professor Spoonley. Unlike in rhe case of Australia, Chinese arrivals can maintain dual citizenship in NZ but it is unclear if even a majority would favour accepting a Chinese sphere of influence over our region which is non negotiable and unacceptable assertion to our strategic partners Japan and Australia. Prime Monister Bill English 12: months as PM destroyed 40 years of progress towards NZ being an open free economy. One should review the insulting way Bill English handled his meeting with US Vice President Mike Pence.

This was John Keys watch from memory….Key went on to sell his mansion to a Chinese buyer for well above market value….Turkeys don’t vote for an early Christmas NZ 😉

again and they still not looking after new zealanders!! look who's getting top jobs in government now. Shite kiwis be doing the bail out, soon, this time not their banks!! New Zealand!!

And John Keys is getting sued in America for insider trading, just like he did in New Zealand but we can't sue here, that's what I call a snake.

Deeply concerned about mass immigration and cultural ideology We no longer feel safe in our city

Oh yes, Aukland been the super city of a tyrannical controlled tyranny, Hamilton, Taranga, Wellington, Christchurch the smart cities of tyrants. Treason is what smart cities are.

Coming from John Key ex Goldman Sachs banker, they all cant be trusted

Can you please tell me the name of the man in the KZfaq picture to click on for this video. He is sitting at the microphone with a blue shirt and tie. He is my doppelganger. Very strange.

I think NZ got to see what can happen to their country when Winston Peters isn’t there to apply the handbrake….Mass immigration in the past 25yrs has destroyed this country and it will never recover anytime soon….and as for John Key who IMO has been the second worse PM in my lifetime, we’ll he should focus on his insider trading problems that have come to light….

The NZ voting cycle is not working

“Skills” like driving an Uber. I’m sure they’ll ask ‘Kiwis’ if we want immigration right after NZ demographics are made up of more immigrants than kiwis.

The place would be better off in building a botanical public garden park for society. Something for the whole public in general. Transform the entire city complex into the New Zealand "Keep it Green" foundation and make it a giant resting place for the city workers,/commuters/shoppers/senior citizens/students/parents to relax and to have a breather, have a picnic, or simply enjoy the ambiance of nature in the middle of the city without resorting to city sidewalk benches that caters for 4 people. Making a public park is far more profitable for society over A building complex that profits the complex ownership beneficiaries that don't offer a profitability service for the general public and only targets a specific audience out of the public society. The whole idea of building a new complex is an opportunity for businessmen to make money in the end at the cost of the city. Give the entire landscape back to the land and build an inner city botanical garden park and reinstill the grassroots kiwi-ana, laid back number-8 wired, gumbooted kick back attitude that can benefit all public civilians in society. It's better to build a new rather than rebranding the old. Make a better future place for our future kids. So, yeah, I believe the city workers will visit that place every day, even if it's just for a little time for fresh air and space 😉

Epiner looks like an NPC never engaging with any point just back to the next question trying to get a gotcha so he can get a pat on his back from his friends. No interest in understanding anything