How to manufacture a rental crisis
The government is at it again. They blame everyone but themselves for high and increasing house prices resulting in low housing affordability. Read more
26 March, 2021
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Media release: Doing business in New Zealand has just become riskier
Tuesday’s announcement of new housing policies from the Government has just made New Zealand a far riskier place to do business, warns a policy paper released today by The New Zealand Initiative. A risky place to do business, written by Dr Eric Crampton and Dr Bryce Wilkinson does not assess the effects of these policies, rather it warns of the consequences of this approach to policy-making. Read more
26 March, 2021
Why the Government's housing policy is shambolic
Suppose you have an apple orchard. You hire labour to pick and pack your apples. Read more
Dr Bryce Wilkinson ONZM
25 March, 2021
Podcast: Oliver Hartwich, Eric Crampton, Bryce Wilkinson and David Law discuss the Government's new housing package
Oliver Hartwich, Eric Crampton, Bryce Wilkinson and David Law discuss the Government's new housing package.
The New Zealand Initiative · The Government's Housing Package Read more
Dr Oliver Hartwich
Dr Eric Crampton
Dr Bryce Wilkinson ONZM
24 March, 2021
Leonard Hong and Bernard Hickey discuss 'The Need to Build'
Research Assistant Leonard Hong joined Bernard Hickey for an interview to discuss his latest report, The Need to Build: Demographic drivers of the housing market. In the report, Leonard Hong modelled 36 scenarios and found that New Zealand's population gets older and larger by 2038. Read more
8 March, 2021
Housing crisis tip of the iceberg: report
The nationwide housing shortage and soaring prices are only going to get worse. Leonard Hong, author of our The Need to Build report, tells Kathryn Ryan on Radio NZ that demand-side solutions such as the bright-line test are just tinkering around the edges. Read more
2 March, 2021
Kiwi Dream? More like a nightmare
Last week’s Covid cases in Auckland delayed Finance Minister Robertson’s housing policy announcements. The housing shortage has been at crisis levels for a long time, but the delay in this case is not likely to make any difference. Read more
26 February, 2021
Eric Crampton on planning systems and urban land use
Eric Crampton talks to Bryan Crump on Radio NZ Nights about urban land use planning systems and if they are fit for purpose. Eric would like to see more localised planning powers and points to a report by a UK think tank Policy Exchange called Strong Suburbs: Enabling streets to control their own development. Read more
Dr Eric Crampton
24 February, 2021
Building for an ageing population
“Demography is destiny”, as French sociologist Auguste Comte once put it. Few developments shape our society more than the composition, the age and size of our population. Read more
Dr Oliver Hartwich
23 February, 2021
Housing crisis? You ain't seen anything yet
Against the predictions of most economists early last year, the housing market has boomed through Covid-19. Since March last year, house prices have risen by 20%, rents by 12%. Read more
23 February, 2021