A Select Committee is recommending the Government acts to ensure more land is made available for subdivisions so that housing is more affordable.
The Commerce Committee has reported back on its inquiry into Housing Affordability, which was held following public concern over inflated property prices.
It recommends more land be made available for subdivision and local authority processes be streamlined to reduce compliance costs.
It also calls for a further review of the Building Act and Building Code so it's easier to get new building consents for new homes.
The committee used Auckland as a case study and recommended that its regional council looks at what is constraining the supply of land for new housing.
But Local Government New Zealand says it doesn't accept that local authority processes need to be streamlined to improve housing affordability.
The President of Local Government New Zealand, Lawrence Yule, says slow resource consent processing is not a widespread issue.
He says in the last financial year 96% of resource consents didn't go out for notification and 73% of those were processed within the statutory timeframe.
