Wednesday, 28 June 2017, 3:02 pm Press Release: ACT New Zealand
We actually need 1600 Pt England Developments
Nick
Smith just ran 25 steps in the housing marathon, says ACT
Leader David Seymour.
“The Pt England Development is a
no-brainer, and shouldn’t have taken six months for
Parliament to pass. It permits a 300-home housing
development on prime Auckland land currently used to graze
cows.
“But the Government needs to think bigger – far,
far bigger. According to one measure, New Zealand has a
housing shortfall of 500,000. That’s how many more homes
we’d have if we had continued building at the rate we
managed until the ‘80s.
“In other words, we need
another 1600 Pt England developments. If fixing the housing
crisis was a marathon, Nick Smith just ran the first 25
metres.
“National badly needs credibility on housing,
and a stronger ACT will give it to them. We’ll make
National scrap the Rural Urban Boundary, allowing
homebuilding on an epic scale on the abundant land currently
zoned as ‘Countryside Living’.
“That would provide
25,000 hectares for development – a lot better than Nick
Smith’s
12.”
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