Prime Minister John Key said he believed low income New Zealanders could one day buy a home, despite the price of a house going up by $3000 a week in Auckland.
This was an insult to Kiwis who had been priced out of the market by Government inaction on housing, the Green Party said.
Green Party co-leader Metiria Turei said Mr Key was "painfully out of touch" if he thought low and middle income Aucklanders would ever be able to afford to buy a home when the price of a house was going up by what she said was $1000 a week, and the mortgage repayment on a median priced house was $830 a week.
Figures this month from the Real Estate Institute showed Auckland house prices were going up by $3000 a week.
"The National Government's ideological opposition to public investment in housing is holding back Auckland and driving up inequality which is hurting young New Zealanders and the economy," Ms Turei said.
