What’s happening in beautiful New Zealand is a tragedy

This small country has the worst housing crisis in the entire Western world.

Many young people are becoming homeless

Hannah, 32, has two degrees and a master’s in economics and finance.

She has also been in transitional housing three times in the past three years.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360780255/out-options-and-desperate-i-had-nowhere-else-go

1 in 1000 citizen is now homeless:

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/568282/one-in-every-1000-new-zealanders-without-shelter-salvation-army

Yet it’s not like the country doesn’t have money. They have money. For cars.

New Zealand is the most car-dependent country in the world:

https://www.autocar.co.nz/study-suggests-new-zealand-is-the-most-car-dependent-country-in-the-world/

They are spending billions on cars, roads, highways, car insurance, tunnels, giant parking lots:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/money/132964784/new-zealanders-stuck-in-a-car-dependency-cycle-as-fuel-likely-to-rise-to-recordbreaking-prices

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/566892/auckland-more-dependent-on-cars-less-density-than-its-peers-report-finds

They are literally using their economy to encourage cars instead of housing.

It’s so sad