New Zealand is experiencing some of the highest living costs in the OECD . According to Investopedia, “ the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is variously referred to as a think tank or monitoring group. Its stated goals include fostering economic development and cooperation; fighting poverty; and ensuring the environmental impact of growth and social development is always considered”. So, given that NZ is a signed up member of this economic development group to fight poverty while minimising harm to the environment which supports all living things, why is housing becoming more unaffordable? In 2017 Oxfam released a report on the growing gap between the haves and have not’s and this now rings true in Aotearoa. The report points out that the global economy is designed to enable the wealthy to accumulate more wealth and avoid taxation. As reported by Stuff NZ , “ 28 per cent of all wealth made went to the richest 1 per cent of Kiwis in 2017. The...