Select committee reports back on Resource Management Act Bill

“This legislation improves New Zealand’s environmental management, helps increase the supply and affordability of housing and supports jobs and growth. It contains 40 proposals that make significant changes to five different Acts and is the most comprehensive package...

Wellington to build 750 new housing units

It is a part of the city’s housing upgrade programme, set up in December, to tackle a housing shortage in the capital. The first units are already going up on a site in the central suburb of Mt Cook. Mayor Justin Lester said the scheme aimed to avoid a housing...

New Zealand short 60,000 homes

Using their own metrics, Treasury estimate that the “cumulative shortfall” houses in Auckland was at between 30,000 and 35,000 in June of 2016. An ANZ figure in the same report suggests the national shortfall is as high as 60,000. That figure is estimated...