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Ideas from locals

Practical fixes, ranked by how many locals back them. Disagreeing is a button too — concerns are counted and shown, not buried.

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Housing & Growth

Tilt the balance back towards long-term renting

Look at what would make a landlord choose a twelve-month local tenancy over short-stay letting, and whether that is something worth doing deliberately.

Gathering support📍 District-wideWho should act: QLDC · Central government

Trade-offs: Affects people's income and property rights · Enforcement is difficult · Short-stay letting supports some local livelihoods too

Put up by Queenstown.com

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Housing & Growth

Make it easier for employers to house their own staff

Clear a practical path for businesses that want to provide decent staff accommodation, so the ones willing to invest can get on with it.

Gathering support📍 District-wideWho should act: QLDC · Chamber · Business community

Trade-offs: Tying housing to a job makes leaving harder · Needs real minimum standards or it goes backwards · Does not help people who are not employed by a large operator

Put up by Queenstown.com

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Housing & Growth

Find out why consented homes are not being built

Before opening more land, get a clear public picture of how many homes already have consent but have not been built, and what is holding them up.

Gathering support📍 District-wideWho should act: QLDC · Central government

Trade-offs: Reporting takes staff time · Reasons for delay can be commercially sensitive · Measuring the problem is not the same as solving it

Put up by Queenstown.com

Nobody's weighed in yet — you'd be first.

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