Why land contiguity is causing market failure in New Zealand’s cities

Land contiguity or site assembly is an impediment to housing intensification. Difficulty assembling sites contributes to unaffordable housing. New remedies should be investigated.

Housing affordability: Reform or Revolution?

The historic record shows that progressive social movements can be successful…

Reciprocal intensification property rights

New hyperlocal concepts could help solve the housing crisis.

Solving the housing crisis in New Zealand will require many reforms and much effort. Some of the needed reforms will face opposition and be difficult to implement. There…

Rupture

New Zealand has a habit of advancing from tight conservativism to innovative progression in unexpected ways

Why do urban growth boundaries cause so many problems?

Many people find the economics of housing complicated. The two authors of this article attempt to present a simple overview of the key points. Phil Hayward explains how growth boundaries causes excessive housing inflation and Brendon…

Housing Affordability: New Alliances, New Battlefields

Housing has been rising as a political and social concern in New Zealand. As public concern about housing issues has risen, the nature of how the public views planning has changed from prioritising aesthetic considerations to…

Driverless cars, sprawl and density

Frank McRae

Why I Became an Affordable Housing Advocate

Based on written notes for speech to the 2016 cross-party homeless inquiry

Finding the political will to act is the most important issue.