29 Okt 2012 Jahr - Government response to the Productivity Commission’s Inquiry into Housing Affordability

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The Government released its response to the recommendations of the Productivity Commission’s Inquiry into Housing Affordability. The response included a work programme to grow the supply of affordable housing, with four key aims:
• increasing land supply – this would include more greenfields and brownfields developments and allow further densification of cities where appropriate;
• reducing delays and costs of Resource Management Act 1991 processes associated with housing – this included introducing a six-month time limit on council processing of medium sized consents;
• improving the timely provision of new infrastructure to support new housing – this would include considering new ways to co-ordinate and manage infrastructure for subdivisions; and
• improving
• productivity in the construction sector – this included an evaluation of the Productivity Partnership’s progress in achieving a 20 percent increase in productivity by 2020.
Other recommendations from the Productivity Commission were signalled for further exploration including:
• whether building consent authorities could be consolidated in a regional or national hub; and
• the possible establishment of a competitor agency for resource consent/plan changes.
More work was to be commissioned on the specific problems of the Auckland and Christchurch housing markets.
The Government did not agree with the Commission’s recommendation that a review be undertaken of the regulations relevant to the quality of rental accommodation and that options for improvement including implementation and enforcement be considered. The Government noted that its priority was to grow the supply of housing from the third sector and that quality and maintenance would be a condition of receiving Government funding. It was also noted that the Residential Tenancies Act 1986 required rental properties to be provided in a reasonable state of repair and comply with all building, health and safety requirements. It was noted that quality standards could work against housing affordability objectives by increasing the cost of housing.

Source: https://www.msd.govt.nz/about-msd-and-our-work/about-msd/history/social-assistance-chronology-programme-history.html

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