NZ housing supply falls further behind population growth

Tuesday 1 August 2017

The New Zealand National Government’s single-minded focus on solving Auckland’s housing crisis by boosting supply continues to fail.

Yesterday, Statistics New Zealand released figures showing that in the year ended June 2017, 30,453 new dwellings were consented:

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.