NZ Property Investor

BATTLE LINES DRAWN OVER HOUSING SHORTAGE

YOUR LAWYER

F or years the government has been targeting increasing land supply in an attempt to improve housing affordability.

The first attempt was by introducing new national direction under the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) with the National Policy Statement on Urban Development Capacity 2016, which shone a spotlight on urban centres with high demand for growth and required councils to identify and plan for urban development capacity.

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