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...
Women, senior citizens and Māori are amongst the groups more likely to receive accommodation supplement, and the majority of recipients are on some form of benefit. Auckland Action Against Poverty is calling for a freeze on rent increases, and for the Government to...
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...
Insulation features in “healthy homes” regulations that Housing and Urban Development Minister Phil Twyford is expected to impose next month. Under existing law, New Zealand’s 262,000 owners of rental property are required to install both ceiling and underfloor...
“Auckland is a basket case when it comes to housing affordability,” says Sayers. “It’s of the highest moral imperative for Council to fix.” Auckland must dump the ideology of a compact city and spread out and up to make housing affordable, while simultaneously...
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...
Mystery already surrounded Barclay’s nearly three month absence from his position as inaugural head of the government’s flagship KiwiBuild programme, before the one-time head of the San Francisco America’s Cup village tendered his resignation earlier...
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...
A new study reveals none of the country’s main property markets are considered affordable anymore. The annual Demographia International Housing Affordability report released today shows New Zealand continues to be one of the most unaffordable countries in the...
