Auckland housing 'might have to get ugly' - English

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哈哈，所谓的special housing areas 看来并不能解决一般人买不起房的问题。

Auckland housing 'might have to get ugly' - English


The Auckland Council estimates that just 800 new homes built over the next three years will be classed as "affordable".

It comes as Finance Minister Bill English says Auckland might have to get "a bit ugly" to cater for the demand for new homes, but Labour says that would be a disaster.

It's not quite Nelson or Queenstown, but Auckland has its own charm. Though with current house prices 37 percent higher than their 2007 peak, Mr English says aesthetics could take a hit.

"There's no point having beautifully designed cities if 90 percent of New Zealanders can't afford to live in them. We might have to get a bit ugly."

Mr English's comments come as the Auckland Council says it's on track to complete between 7000 and 8000 new homes by 2016.

But there's a catch – the council estimates only 800 of those will be "affordable".

That will do little to assist first-home buyers, but Housing Minister Nick Smith told The Nation this morning the flow-on effects will be helpful.

"When a new house is built, and many of those houses are $700,000-$800,000, and a new person buys into that, they also free up a lower house," he says.

But it's the new developments where "ugly" will come into it.

"Smaller, comfortable, affordable product – that is the future of Auckland, and we need more of that."

So the quarter-acre dream is out and apartments are in. Deputy Mayor Penny Hulse says that's the reality for first-home buyers.

"Looking at the housing choices around us here, it is the opportunity to buy an apartment or a terraced house or something that is in the more affordable category, but to buy a house nonetheless," she says.

Though Labour says that would be a disaster.

"Their idea is that poor people should live in shoebox apartments with smaller, lower ceiling sizes and narrower doors and that somehow that's the answer to the housing crisis," says Labour housing spokesperson Phil Twyford.

The Government says it's aiming higher than 8,000 new homes by 2016, with a fourth lot of special housing areas due to be announced in August.

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onetreehill1

未来3年将建造 7000 and 8000 个新房子，而只有800个新房子占总数的1/10才是真正买家可以负担的起的房子，

供求关系不解决啊，所以看起来政府批准建新房的许可多了，但是90%的新房子还是高价，就是第一次买房者是买不起的。 除非政府建大量的公房，但是问题是建造材料价格加上人工价格摆在那里，房价怎么能低呢？

所以要买房现在就是最好的时机，要等政府批准建低价位的房子来买简直是一场恶梦啊

cizzzzk

低价和建房成本这么高，只能靠公寓来解决中低收入住房难题

winny

nuoweigege

piaoguo!!!!

songinator

当初special housing area这个idea一出我算了笔账 早就说过 根本便宜不了
根本就是优惠2万块钱的新房而已  新房比2手房（新西兰大部分的房子）本来就贵 优惠完了原来连2手房都买不起的根本买不起新的