23 Jan 2018

Tauranga to solve unaffordable housing - mayor

From Morning Report, 8:51 am on 23 January 2018

Tauranga plans to open up new sites of land and increase housing density to address its impending housing crisis. Survey results released yesterday show the city has usurped Auckland as New Zealand's least affordable city for housing. Tauranga mayor Greg Brownless tells Guyon Espiner he expects the government's infrastructure fund and house-building plans will help, but he says "the horse has bolted a bit on foreign buyers".