We demand a welfare system that provides unemployed or destitute persons productive employment as opposed to a dependency income. The welfare system must also include profit margin limitations on rents and property prices.

The welfare state of today has been corrupted to function in the same was as the financial system: to trap people in a state of dependency. Instead of helping our people to help themselves, it renders them helpless and subservient, cutting them off from their ability to be productive in their own right, and removing their agency and self-reliance until they are rendered a serf to the system.

When people present themselves to the welfare system, instead of being given (an often miniscule) amount of money, instead the aim of the welfare system must be to help them become productive in their own right. Instead of unemployment benefit, the welfare system should work hand-in-hand with employers to get people directly into some kind of productive work. Any kind of productive employment, even unskilled, is better than being in a state of helpless dependency. The aspects of the National Agenda which deal with the re-industrialisation of the country will play an instrumental role in providing these mass opportunities of employment through industry and public works.

Vagrancy and homelessness are scourges which damage both the individual and society. Many people who succumb to these do so because of personal issues, dependencies or behaviours, and the state must intervene where necessarily to change these behaviours and remedy these problems (given that it is both a right and a duty of all our citizens to be productive to the best of their ability).

The lack of affordable housing is one of the contributing factors to poor quality of life, which can manifest in homelessness when it reaches its extreme. Rents and property prices in urban centres have become so high that even people on above-average incomes can scarcely afford to live above poverty. Whilst market demand drives much of this change, the state must at least reserve the right to impose limitations on profit margins for rents and property prices to help address this problem. It must also subsidise new housing developments (and re-development of dilapidated areas) to reduce the initial cost to the buyer.

The ultimate aims of housing policy must be 1) home ownership of some kind as an achievable goal to all our citizens, and 2) the ability for all productively employed people to live within reasonable commute of their workplace, even if it requires state support with regards to rents and property sales.