mar 12, 2019 - Housing Accords and Special Housing Areas - stops

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The Government confirmed that it would not extend the Housing Accords and Special Housing Areas Act 2013 beyond 16 September 2019. No new Special Housing Areas would be able to be established after this time and those already established would have two years to have their consents fast-tracked, before the Act was repealed in September 2021.
The purpose of the Act had been to enhance housing affordability by facilitating an increase in land and housing supply in certain regions or districts, identified as having housing supply and affordability issues. The Act had provided a short-term legislative tool that sought to improve housing affordability by facilitating an increase in land and housing supply in regions or districts with significant housing supply or affordability issues. It did this by providing a mechanism for central government to work together with territorial authorities to address housing supply and affordability issues through the negotiation of Housing Accords and the declaration of Special Housing Areas. The Act provided for resource consent applications for qualifying developments to be considered according to more permissive resource consent powers. Where a Housing Accord was in place, the accord territorial authority was able to exercise these powers.
Since the legislation was enacted in 2013, 11 Housing Accords had been signed between the Government and local authorities.


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

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