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Speaker 1: A housing development for you, Housing development that once again

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Speaker 1: shows how reality beats theory. So housing is a new

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Speaker 1: Zealand obsession. Of course, we love housing, We long to

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Speaker 1: own housing. It encroaches on immigration and whether too many

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Speaker 1: people lead to higher prices. It encroaches on politics and

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Speaker 1: the expectation as to what governments do about housing and

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Speaker 1: the prices of it involves social housing, emergency housing, key,

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Speaker 1: we save, it, incomes, the Reserve Bank, deposits LBRs. It's

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Speaker 1: all encompassing in theory. If you could make building cheaper,

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Speaker 1: we would be keen to back that up, wouldn't we? Oh? Yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: I hear you say, yes, we would. So what happened

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Speaker 1: to Clevercre Clever Core is Fletcher's pre fab house building factory.

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Speaker 1: The factory is closing. Why, I hear you ask, well, because,

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Speaker 1: to quote Fletcher's it had not worked. Demand was the issue.

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Speaker 1: There wasn't enough of it. If you had conducted a survey,

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Speaker 1: which is theory, and asked, could prefab housing help the

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Speaker 1: so called housing crisis in this country, you would have

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Speaker 1: got an overwhelming yes. And yet did we follow our

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Speaker 1: enthusiasm up with some sales? Know we did not clearly

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Speaker 1: resistance from the building industry is another phrase that Fletcher's uses.

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Speaker 1: You see, as I've said many, many times, we're happy

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Speaker 1: to moan about the cost of building, the cost of jib,

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Speaker 1: how cheap it is in Australia, how much a deck

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Speaker 1: out the back for the barbecue is, but prefab who know,

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Speaker 1: wouldn't touch prefab. Essentially, we're housing snobs, sort of like

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Speaker 1: coffee moan about six bucks for a flat, right, but

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Speaker 1: we're going to pay it anyway. Not that there's anything

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Speaker 1: wrong with that. I mean, if you want to pay

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Speaker 1: anywhere between ten and thirty five thousand dollars a square meter, terrific.

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Speaker 1: But what clever Core reveals is we don't actually want

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Speaker 1: to save often, we don't actually want solutions. What we

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Speaker 1: want is what we have and like accept at a

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Speaker 1: better price. We want what we can't have, what we

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Speaker 1: can have we don't want. Ask Fletchers for more.

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