Letters: Rotorua needs more houses to solve the rental crisis. Photo/File.
A headline in the Rotorua Daily Post (News, March 30) reads "Median Rotorua rent up 45 per cent in five years".
The reason is obvious; we do not have enough houses in Rotorua. The property management people are saying that they do not have enough stock.
The answer would appear
to be very simple. To progress, Rotorua must build more houses.
Yet there are still splinter groups, and Nimbys in our city who decry any effort to advance the building processes and get the houses built. Instead, they criticise the efforts of the council and the developers and are determined to slow the processes down rather than speed them up with a constant cry of a lack of consultation, inadequate planning.
My plea to our council is simple. Please ignore these people, just get the houses built.
