Bill English is quoted in the Herald today as saying, a propos of rising house prices and low housebuilding numbers: It’s clear that the lowest-income households have been the most affected so our planning processes have probably done more to increase income inequality in New Zealand than most other policies and it does remain a…

On Wednesday the New Zealand Council for Christian Social Services (NZCCSS) hosted an event on inequality and the Budget with ministers Bill English and Paula Bennett. Perhaps the most telling phrase came from English, when he said that, in his view, a lot of the debate around inequality was “true, but useless”. This implied that,…