Last week, in a speech to the Wellington Chamber of Commerce, Minister for Housing and Infrastructure, Chris Bishop, noted that fixing our housing crisis is one of the most important things for our country, for productivity, the government’s fiscal position and simply morally to provide people with dignified living and better opportunities. I, like most New Zealanders, agree with this. So, how do we achieve this?
Great article! Makes me think of the 'Integrated Residential Development' provision in some Resi + Business zones in the Auckland Unitary Plan which enable comprehensive development on site s>2000sqm, usually retirement villages. These enable better layouts than BAU dev in the zone, but I don't think enabled height and intensification to the degree that a GDZ policy as you've described here could achieve (or the HCC policy does).
The pace and location of private housing development is set by a developer's calculation of the expected rate of return for building v land banking. This needs to be addressed at the same time as this innovative sort of zoning technique. Some sort of land tax system to add to holding costs?
Different decision making for public builds though, which leads me to speculate that the best/immediate lower value housing increase has to be based on a massive public build.
Great article! Makes me think of the 'Integrated Residential Development' provision in some Resi + Business zones in the Auckland Unitary Plan which enable comprehensive development on site s>2000sqm, usually retirement villages. These enable better layouts than BAU dev in the zone, but I don't think enabled height and intensification to the degree that a GDZ policy as you've described here could achieve (or the HCC policy does).
Great read.
The pace and location of private housing development is set by a developer's calculation of the expected rate of return for building v land banking. This needs to be addressed at the same time as this innovative sort of zoning technique. Some sort of land tax system to add to holding costs?
Different decision making for public builds though, which leads me to speculate that the best/immediate lower value housing increase has to be based on a massive public build.