The Imminent Ruin of the Auckland Housing Crisis: Social Resistance Against the Financialisation of HousingIntroductionThere is a housing crisis in New Zealand for people on low incomes. The 2013 census...Malva, ShaneSociological Association of Aotearoa New ZealandNew Zealand Sociology...
The rise was driven by consents in Auckland, home to a third of the country's population and the center of the housing crisis. "Almost 40 percent of the new homes consented were in Auckland," business indicators manager Melissa McKenzie said in a statement. In the year ended November, 30...
Opposition lawmakers said the move would punish would-be home-buyers across the country for a housing crisis that was centered in Auckland, but they blamed the government for being in denial over the problem. The opposition Green Party released figures Tuesday showing Auckland could face a shortage...
The main aim of this thesis is to critically evaluate Auckland Council's approach in revoking the provisions of inclusionary zoning from the Auckland Unitary Plan that sought to secure affordable housing. Auckland's major housing affordability problem has received a lot of attention at the national...
Affordable housing policies in a post-COVID aftermath Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess the outcomes of a suite of affordability policies in Auckland, New Zealand, in the face of a post-COVID aftermath. Improving the access to homeownership while preserving the competitive natu......
In the end, based on the information from the outcomes of similar legislation in other jurisdictions such as Auckland and Minneapolis, the provincial government should ultimately be commended for taking the housing crisis seriously, even if it might prove difficult, even if some might find it ...
Olivia Maana from Panmure, Auckland, opened a letter from Housing New Zealand Corporation and gasped. It was an eviction notice. Following the recent death of her mother, the lease on the family’s three-bedroom state house was now void. With other families in greater need of the house than...
“precarious housing” to describe the margins between having a place to stay and having to sleep rough. It reveals the drivers of the current housing crisis as well as its consequences for those who cannot find and maintain an adequate and safe home. Thirdly, it turns to current policies ...
years public service numbers were rising, often quite strongly, and over the latest three months, when a victory for a National-led government came to seem much more certain, Wellington house prices haven’t done anything materially different than those in Auckland (both up a couple of per ...
This approach allows the relevant submarket to vary from house to house and for transactions involving other dwellings in each submarket to have varying impacts depending on distance. We conclude that "for our Auckland, New Zealand, data" the gains in accuracy from including submarket variables ...