Housing Crisis

I have choosen to focus my poster on the current housing "crisis" currently effecting many New Zealanders. I am going communitcate the inequality and unattainability of house prices in New Zealand.

Research 

• Since the 1980's the government has been steadily selling off State houses. Just last year the National government opted to sell off 1000 – 2000 state houses and offered more income related subsidies, so that families could afford to rent privately, however this boosted competition within the private rental market, affecting all renters and only benefitting private developers and property investors.
• When comparing house prices to income New Zealand is now the most expensive country in the world to buy a home.
• An average Auckland home costs 10 times the median yearly income in New Zealand, because of this New Zealand's mortgage debt has doubled in the last decade. 
• For middle income couples their mortgage is likely to be at least half their income, therefore it is nearly impossible for a single person, or a lower income couple to buy a house.
• The percentage of investment properties is steadily growing, currently 44% of house buyers are investors.
• The minimum wage in New Zealand is $14.75, certainly not enough to save for a house.
• in 2016 Housing New Zealand will spend $2 billion to build and buy more than 4000 new state houses after an apparent Government backtrack, at least 3200 of those properties will be in Auckland, the state housing corporation confirmed today.
• Over the next two years, Housing New Zealand will also build another 800 affordable houses to be sold on the open market. 
• The government have tried to work on projects to sell off houses, to get other providers to do the building, this has failed, and now they're facing this enormous deficit, which requires a major building programme.
• Labour MP Grant Roberson urged the Government to abandon its policy to sell thousands of state houses.
• The Government is transferring up to 2000 Housing New Zealand properties to non-government providers, beginning in Tauranga.
• Labour has promised to build 10,000 affordable homes over the next year, however analysis for the Herald by housing researcher Ian Mitchell shows only 43 per cent of Aucklanders in the target 20 to 40 age group could buy a house for $500,000, based on current bank lending criteria. Only 33 per cent could afford a $600,000 house. 
• 1 in 100 New Zealanders are homeless. 
• Researchers from the University of Otago found that in 2013, more than 41,000 people were staying in severely crowded houses with family or friends, or in boarding houses, camping grounds, in cars or on the street.
• Information the most recent Census in 2013 shows the number of homeless people has grown 19% since the last census in 2006. 
• Articile 25 of the Universal declaring of human rights expresses  Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.