http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1307/S00465.htm Housing Accords Bill refined and progressed Wednesday, 31 July 2013, 2:25 pm Press Release: New Zealand Government 31 July 2013 Housing Accords Bill refined and progressed Housing Minister Dr Nick Smith today welcomed the Social Services Committee report on the Housing Accords and Special Housing Areas Bill and the refinement of the legislation to make it more workable. “This bill is crucial to tackling the barriers to the supply of housing and enabling young kiwi families to get into their own home. It will enable central and local government to work more closely together to get some real pace and momentum into building the thousands of additional homes needed in cities like Auckland. It is essential to delivering the 39,000 homes provided for in the Auckland Housing Accord,” Dr Smith says. [....]