Property is distorting everything
Aug 28, 2019
3 minutes
WHEN I BEGAN to source data for this article, it was going to be about one thing – the tyranny of private landlords. However, the subject has since broadened and now covers the potential housing bubble bursting in New Zealand, the housing shortage, even Auckland’s gridlock and population drift as they are all interconnected.
I started with the decline in New Zealand’s homeowner occupation rates – now at the lowest level in generations and wanted to know why, and whether it is a good or bad thing.
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