The recently announced bipartisan housing enabling bill will free up planning rules to allow three storey development across almost all of the existing residential areas of New Zealand’s five biggest cities. It has been met with howls of outrage from the well housed residents of the leafy inner suburbs, and has met resistance from a planning profession that has shown little interest in solving the affordability issues the bill is designed to address.
Debunking leafy suburb housing myths
Debunking leafy suburb housing myths
Debunking leafy suburb housing myths
The recently announced bipartisan housing enabling bill will free up planning rules to allow three storey development across almost all of the existing residential areas of New Zealand’s five biggest cities. It has been met with howls of outrage from the well housed residents of the leafy inner suburbs, and has met resistance from a planning profession that has shown little interest in solving the affordability issues the bill is designed to address.