Mar 21, 2023 | Featured, Ngā Ara Whetū, Science & Technology
Housing intensification in Hamilton. PCE, CC BY-SA Timothy Welch, University of Auckland Recent extreme weather events have provided a foretaste of how supercharged storms might threaten our future. So the release today of a new report from the Parliamentary...
Feb 14, 2022 | Business & Economics
By Michael Rehm If banks’ lending behaviour is found to have contributed to New Zealand’s housing quagmire, then banks must be held to account and share the pain when the bubble inevitably bursts, writes the University of Auckland’s Michael Rehm. New Zealand’s...
Feb 9, 2022 | Politics & Society, Referee
Ending New Zealand’s Housing Crisis is a film by Harry Booth, Haidon Evans and Jade Hunter. The film was produced as part of a Stage 3 COMMs class Documentary and Social Change (2021) taught by Annie Goldson at the University of Auckland. Aotearoa New Zealand is...
Apr 7, 2021 | Business & Economics, Politics & Society
By Alison Pavlovich “If we want a fair and prosperous future, we need a tax system that helps to redress market inequalities.” ACT leader, David Seymour, and National Party leader, Judith Collins, have both labelled the extension of the bright-line test...
Jan 18, 2021 | Business & Economics, Politics & Society
By Edward Yiu Median housing prices across New Zealand increased by 19.8% year-on-year (YOY) in October 2020. It is one of the largest price surges in the world despite a global COVID recession. Median housing prices across New Zealand increased by 19.8% year-on-year...
Jun 8, 2020 | Politics & Society
By Ben Goldson In recent years, the “Housing First” model has become thrust to the forefront of the debate around homelessness, with its numerous advocates pointing to its apparent success in trial programmes. In recent years, the “Housing First” model has become...
Feb 12, 2020 | Politics & Society
Why are New Zealand houses so damp and mouldy? Is the housing stock to blame? Is it the way houses are constructed? Is it the typology? Lillian Hanley spoke with Philippa Howden-Chapman about the state of New Zealand’s houses, and what effect damp and mouldy homes...
Sep 17, 2019 | Business & Economics, Politics & Society
By Michael Rehm New Zealand is the second most overvalued housing market in the world, with Auckland its most unaffordable city, writes Michael Rehm. Auckland was not always unaffordable. At the 1966 Census the $9,900 average Auckland home price was just under three...
Jul 29, 2019 | Business & Economics, Politics & Society
New Zealand is enduring a housing crisis. The chance of buying a home is out of reach for many, while at the same time, rents remain high. Gautami Sithambaram spoke with Campbell Jones about the state of housing in New Zealand and what initiatives young people can...
Oct 23, 2018 | Politics & Society
By Vanessa Cole Economic and Social Research Aotearoa’s Vanessa Cole critiques Labour’s Kiwibuild policy and whether it can help solve the housing crisis in New Zealand. The Labour-led coalition that came into power in 2017 have vowed to address New...