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Report: The cheapest and most expensive places to rent in NZ

The cheapest and most expensive regions to rent in the country at the moment have been revealed in a new report. Figures released by Massey

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Housing: Eight in 10 New Zealanders believe homeownership impossible – report

The dream of homeownership is fading for many New Zealanders and a new report has revealed eight in 10 feel it is now impossible to

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Home at last: how COVID took homelessness off the streets

Home at last: how COVID took homelessness off the streets During the pandemic, many homeless people were housed in hotels – it was supposed to

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Innovative infrastructure funding needed for affordable homes

The infrastructure levy introduced last year is a start but New Zealand is behind its contemporaries. Massey University economics professor Graham Squires More weight needs

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Property investors and ‘moral obligation’

Private rental property owners do not have a moral obligation to provide houses to anyone, including vulnerable tenants, the New Zealand Property Investors Federation says.

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Private infrastructure charges ‘the answer to boost housing supply’

Private housing infrastructure funding charges might be the best way to speed up development and boost housing supply, a property academic says. House prices increased

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Building a case for ‘build-to-rent’ developments

As the Government tightens rules for property investors, it’s talking up a less common type of rental development. What are ‘build-to-rent’ schemes, and how could

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Case study research – using case studies by geography

[800 Words; 5 Minute Read] Research methodology often incorporates case studies, and it is important to outline case study epistemological merits and limitations. Firstly, the

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New Zealand Tenure Changes 1991 to 2016

Given some recent announcements on social (public) housing provision in New Zealand, I have graphed the changes in tenure since 1991 to the start of

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Housing Affordability Determinants

[1100 Words; 4 Minute Read] “Decent, affordable housing is fundamental to the health and well-being of people and to the smooth functioning of economies” (Woetzel

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Housing Development and Design in Cities

Introduction [3000 Words; 23 Minute Read] The last few decades globally has seen a move away from seeing housing design as part of the development

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State Housing New Zealand

Great stories piece on State Housing in New Zealand. Only 4% of total stock but has been an essential part of the fabric since 1906.

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Housing Tenure Debate Video – ‘The Economist’

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Comparative House Price Index

Interesting house price index from The Economist post GFC

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House price affordability, the global financial crisis and the (ir)relevance of mortgage rates

https://doi.org/10.1080/21681376.2019.1643777

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2 years on: Is the Housing Affordability crisis still a crisis?

Here’s part of an article I wrote for the main online NZ media outlet stuff.co.nz on housing affordability prior to the 2017 election… Talk of

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Towards Financial Risk and Housing Policy Trends

Institutions providing access to housing in all tenures have become further entrenched and exposed to financial risk. Literature on housing policy trends and financial risk

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Influential books #94 In defense of housing by Peter Marcuse and David Madden

Arguing the case for housing as needing radical political and economic attention

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Influential books #93 The Affordable Housing Reader edited by Rosie Tighe and Elizabeth Mueller

Good compendium of journal papers looking at affordable housing as the contemporary crisis unfolds

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Influential books #89 Irrational exuberance by Robert Shiller

Arguing early on that markets are driven by psychological and social factors rather than fundamental values. Especially in later editions that consider housing market bubbles.

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Influential books #67 Poverty in the United Kingdom by Peter Townsend

A thorough body of work exploring poverty from theory to practice as applied to the United Kingdom. Published at a pivotal political turn in 1979.

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Influential books #54 Housing policy and economic power by Michael Ball

A political economy look at owner-occupation at the turn of the 21st century

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