Deputy PM goes to Cabinet with a plan
Bill English is set to present a new initiaitve on housing today.
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Expectations are high for a Bill English initiative attacking skyrocketing house prices.
Today the finance minister and deputy prime minister is expected to present Cabinet with a plan.
It will be his response to a Productivity Commission report – a recent housing affordability report.
Like similar reports in recent years, it cites strangled land supply, red tape bottlenecks, local government levies, higher building costs and buyer expectations.
Mr English's spin doctor Craig Howie says the plan will be “pretty broad brush” and would fit in with other recent government initiatives.
An annual affordability survey, Demographia, reports that it takes six times average annual household earnings to buy a house.
This compares to three times annual average household earnings in the 1970s.
Read more about the issues in NBR NZPI.
Chris Hutching
Mon, 29 Oct 2012
Mon, 29 Oct 2012
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Deputy PM goes to Cabinet with a plan
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