This week a report found New Zealand is one of the most unaffordable countries in the world to buy a house, with the average price more than six times the median household income. More than six months into KiwiBuild, only 33 homes have been built - well short of the...
"The government could lower unit construction costs in many ways, as it is well aware," former Business Roundtable economist Bryce Wilkinson says in a new research note today. It could ease up on red tape, improve the supply of urban land by removing regulatory...
Stephen Barclay, head of the KiwiBuild unit Photo: RNZ / Patrick O'Meara In a statement issued on his behalf, it was announced that he would step down from today. Housing Minister Phil Twyford's office said he would not be commenting on Mr Barclay's resignation as it...
The Labour-led government risks electoral defeat in 2020 unless it makes demonstrable progress on affordable housing this year, says the outspoken author of an annual survey of global housing affordability. Hugh Pavletich, the Christchurch-based co-author of the...
The 15th annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Study compared house prices to incomes in New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Ireland, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States and found Tauranga had again out-stripped Auckland...
A recent report showing a massive decline in Māori and Pasifika home-ownership is due to political inaction. The Victoria University and Deloitte report on resilience finds that between 1991 and 2013, Māori home-ownership declined by 32 percent, and Pasifika by 39...
https://thepolicyobservatory.aut.ac.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/78593/Brian-Easton-House-prices-relative-to-inflation-FINAL2.pdf In this short report, economist Brian Easton explores some additional measures to establish whether housing is, indeed, less affordable...
Calling for contributors for the Parity edition of Homelessness in Aotearoa New Zealand October 2017 Parity is a publication of the Victorian Council to Homeless Persons (CHP) and the national homelessness publication in Australia. The aim of this edition is to...
(photo Murray Wilson/Fairfax NZ) Protesters waved placards outside the Palmerston North City Library on Tuesday, and plan to return on Wednesday and Thursday. The Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment’s housing affordability measure, released this...
The church leaders told the Prime Minister, “An insufficient supply of safe and affordable housing in New Zealand is contributing to a level of poverty that is fracturing the well-being of people and communities and hindering the educational progress of our children....