EWNZ comment: Successive governments (aka corporations) sold off a large chunk of our state housing stock! Prime real estate for the greedy corporations. Meanwhile that same lot are creaming accommodation perks off your taxes that they clearly don’t need … they’re not working for you folks, they clearly work for themselves. Their bloated salaries still not enough ? ….

“At least 20 MPs are claiming up to $45,000 a year allowance to stay in their own Wellington homes, a perk that sees the taxpayer help politicians pay off their mortgages.“