The New Zealand Outdoors & Freedom Party (NZOFP) believes every citizen should have access to an affordable home and that our people will be healthier if they all have a warm dry home. As it is not the job of government to push people into poverty, the NZOFP will look for ways to reduce the cost of housing for our people.
We believe it is a travesty that in a wealthy country such as New Zealand we have failed to keep up with the need for both private and social housing, and this needs to be resolved. We will get the Ministry of Housing to be hands-on to improve this situation.
Speed up the process
We will make land available for subdivisions and look for areas that could be converted into new urban developments.
RMA Act will be revised to speed up the house building process.
To speed up the building process, we will sequence the development progression to
find the potential land for development
Connecting services
Subdividing the sections
Contract construction companies to build housing
Use a mixture of public and private housing model.
Green inside and out
All new developments must have well designed community or individual green space for gardens and orchards. We will subsidise any working model that helps people produce food for themselves and their community.
Investing in new technology such as solar panels for water heating and/or photovoltaic panels, or micro-hydro or micro-wind generation where suitable, to lessen electricity bills should be incorporated into all new builds. All new builds must be designed with reducing energy consumption in mind. i.e. working with best models for sun and shade, warm in winter, cool in summer. All architects and draughtsman must be capable of designing such houses no matter their value.
Maximise the efficiency of building new houses by investing in modularisation of building techniques.
All house designs would have to meet an R5 insulation code and be built to withstand large earthquakes such as we experienced in Christchurch.
Cheaper Regenerative Homes: support and promote innovative building materials such as hempcrete to reduce costs, waste and reduce the environmental impacts of house building. We will support industry to use clean, sustainable materials such as NZ wool, for insulation to reduce our pollution footprint in building. We will support industry using clever ways to use the materials we create in New Zealand, whilst reducing the use of materials known to cause harm. The Outdoors & Freedom Party (OFP) will reduce the consent costs for builders using a certain percentage of regenerative, recycled, or sustainable products in their construction.
Builders must recycle any building materials to reduce waste on building sites.
New builds must include rain water storage and grey water systems to reduce the pressure on sewerage systems, for future proofing and civil emergencies.
Hempcrete: The New Zealand Outdoors & Freedom Party (NZOFP) will create a funding scheme for a competitive hempcrete building model. Hempcrete building requires fewer finite resources; and creates healthy homes.
New Zealand Social Housing
It has been a long time since New Zealand lead the world with its Social Housing. It’s time to go back to treating our people with dignity and ensure everyone, including our vulnerable, have a safe warm place to live.
Caring for the homeless
The Outdoors & Freedom Party (OFP) will ensure that night shelters and other refuges, are fully funded for the important work they do, including two fresh, nourishing and nutrient rich meals a day, nutritional supplements for those who may be deficient due to addictions or other health challenges, counselling and medical support services.
Ultimately The Outdoors & Freedom Party (NZOFP) believes that no one lives on the streets because they really want to, so we will support and fund low cost living spaces for those who aren’t able to manage the challenge of funding and running a household.