Image: NZ HeraldLabour leader Jacinda Ardern wants the state housing waiting list to be empty by 2030 and child poverty to have halved. With six days until polling day, Ardern laid out her 2030 vision in a speech to a Labour Party rally at the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington today. The state house waiting list is currently about 20,000, up from about 6000 when the current government took power. And halving child poverty by 2030 is actually less ambitious than the Government's 10-year targets, announced in January 2018, to do just that by 2027/28. "Covid didn't end child poverty.

Source: Otago Daily Times October 11, 2020 01:07 UTC