NPS a victory for ACT ideas

Today’s National Policy Statement (NPS) implements some of ACT’s long-held views on housing, says ACT Leader David Seymour.

“While others have attacked foreigners and proposed new taxes and red tape, ACT has always said that housing affordability is fundamentally a land supply issue," said Mr Seymour.

“The NPS would not have focused on the importance of land supply if it weren’t for the influence of the Productivity Commission. The Commission was an ACT initiative announced in 2010.

“For now, this NPS is a step in the right direction. But going forward, National needs ACT to provide the support to pass more comprehensive RMA reform preventing policies such as Auckland’s failed metropolitan urban limit being introduced ever again.

“In addition, the Government needs to be prepared to fund infrastructure. As it has discovered with Special Housing Areas, you can’t build a house on land without infrastructure.

“Today’s announcement begins a long assault on New Zealand’s dysfunctional housing markets, and ACT is pleased to see the Government moving in the direction we have advocated for a decade.”

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