<P> Labour leader Jacinda Ardern announced on 14 August 2017 that the party is reinstating a 2015 pledge to assist school students to learn to drive and budget . Five driving lessons and the fees for the licence test would be free, and students would be taught life skills and budgeting . On 29 August, Ardern announced that Labour would implement its 2016 policy of three years free tertiary education, starting with one year in 2018 and expanding to two years in 2021 and three years in 2024 . She also announced a $50 per week increase in the student allowance and student loan living costs . </P> <P> The ACT party continues to support partnership (charter) schools, with intentions to allow state schools to convert into partnership schools . ACT leader David Seymour said on 2 September 2017 that the party would give schools $975 million more, so long as they abandon nationally negotiated union contracts . Schools would be funded $93,000 per teacher in a bulk funding arrangement and would be free to allocate the grant how they wanted, with principals able to decide how much to pay individual teachers . Teachers' pay would be boosted by $20,000 on average, and the payments would reward good teachers and attract "our brightest graduates" to careers in teaching . </P> <P> According to Quotable Value, residential house prices across New Zealand have increased 34.2% between June 2014 and June 2017, from an average of $476,000 to an average of $639,000 . In the Auckland metro area, the increase has been 45.5% in the same period, from $718,000 to $1,045,000 . </P> <P> ACT announced its housing policy on 6 August 2017, proposing to scrap the urban rural boundary to free up land for those who want to subdivide and build, claiming that this creates room for 600,000 possible houses . </P>

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