New Zealand is missing 500,000 houses because of its inability to build at the same rate over the last 30 years as it did between the mid 1940s and the late 1970s. That's the view of independent economist Shamubeel Eaqub, who has analysed New Zealand's house building record since the 1920s.
Eaqub presented his findings at the New Zealand Planning Institute's annual conference in Wellington on Wednesday. He found that New Zealand would now have 500,000 houses more than it currently has if it had built at a rate of more than eight houses per 1000 people, as it did between the end of World War Two and 1980.
Instead, the house building rate dropped to around five per 1000 people between the early 1980s and now. That was now being reflected in increased over-crowding in Auckland in particular and a plummeting home vacancy rate.
The biggest fall in the building rate was immediately after the Global Financial Crisis in 2008, when it dropped to almost three per 1000 head of population.
Eaqub said New Zealand was now also building the wrong sort of homes, with most homes being larger three, four and five bedroom homes with multiple bathrooms. The high price of land made these larger homes the only viable alternative for house builders and buyers, while smaller and more affordable homes were not being built.
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作者: 董董 时间: 2017-4-26 11:48:17
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