Why do urban growth boundaries cause so many problems?
Many people find the economics of housing complicated. The two authors of this article attempt to present a hopefully simple overview of...
Yes they don't care. So what are we going to do about it?
You will remember the Rwandan genocide, where over a million Africans were butchered to death with machetes over 100 days (yeah, real...
"Just what things cost": A Critique of Professor Hazeltine's article
Recently Professor Tim Hazeltine wrote an Opinion piece in the New Zealand Herald on the Metropolitan Urban Limit and his opinion that it...
The Myth of Affordable Intensification
Auckland is not the only city where planners and advocates and politicians and even economists, are making an assumption that urban...
What is the cause for our affordability crisis?
When is our housing affordability problem going to be solved? Following Nick Smith's recent interview on The Nation, viewable at the link...
Housing Affordability: How did we get into this State?
Grizzlies, the Housing Economy and the chaos we are in Do you ever wonder how on earth our housing market got into the state it is in,...
Is it possible to build a house for under $220,000 in New Zealand?
We know that it is very expensive in Auckland to buy a home, even if you are to consider a starter home which is probably of most...
The shape of New Zealand to come?
Everyone says you can't predict the future. I say up to a point you can. You can look at technology, costs, consumer demand and from...
Congestion and Auckland Council's Transport Evaluation: What difference will Public Transport ma
In 2011 the Strategic Group in Auckland Council released their evaluation of Transport with different four different city models. One key...
Isolating the Underclass - without money
People are terrified of openly talking about the underclass in the negative, and more specifically their desire to keep their distance...
