You might ask yourself, "Why on earth did the Government have a Land for Housing fund?" What Government would think the answer to New Zealand's over-inflated property prices was for the Government to join the market and start bidding up prices further with the taxes paid by other people trying to get into the market? I mean, if you didn't laugh, you'd cry. You can't make this stuff up. Altogether, $4 billion of the COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund were taken by this Government and put into housing. Supposedly the best way to recovery from COVID is to put money into a market that is overheated, which has a shortage of labour because the borders are closed, and now has a shortage of materials because, under level 4 lockdown conditions, materials are all sitting in Auckland warehouses, unable to be distributed because the Government can't work out the testing regime for COVID-19 at the Auckland border.