Chris Bishop announces plan to 'flood' country with new homes | 4 July 2024 | RNZ

Fix the corruption in local councils first

Hahaha. If they really want houses to be built, maybe start looking at the cost of building materials. It is so expensive it is out of reach of most of the country. Open up all the land you want, if we can't afford the materials or the mortgage rates, you are wasting your time!

He's rattling away like an AK47, im a builder, there's not enough builders to fullful this word salad,the young dont want to get their hands dirty,and want 3day weeks and big money.My current build,a 3beddy,has joinery costing 36k,engineers charge $300hr, $450 for a site visit,drainlayers are the new millionaires,etc. Good luck.

We dont have doctors, dentists, vets etc you've cut jobs so they are leaving amd graduates can't get a job. These people make up our instrastructure. I live in a growing area but infrastructure isn't keeping up. You need to create jobs to support growth first before building more houses. Where is the power supposed to come from and what strategies are in place to manage waste. Flooding the marketing without proper planning is very foolish

What a liar: society is made up of individual choices. Who asked for mass-migration?

Excellent - lets build some world class vertical slums like we see all over the world with all the social problems they bring. People don't need windows or light or open space - they should be grateful to live in what are essentially closed containers. Build them in Remuera next to where the PM lives so he can live live with the social problems.

Would the changes help the homeless I wonder? And what's with all this coffee and cafes downstairs talk? We can barely afford cheese

Am I the only person who sees this as a bad thing? I lived in South Auckland for 25 years across the road from me was a house with 25 Indian immigrants living on mattresses on the floor I.e 1 person per 3 sq metres. What we will end up with is cities full of sausage houses and apartments with no living space. All well saying we want to be like London or Paris but we don't need to be we have the space to have decent houses with front and back gardens. These places will become slums or estates like in the UK. Also we only have these issues because Labour let in 250k of low skilled immigrants in their last year instead of doctors, surgeons,engineers etc that we actually need. Ratepayers like myself will be funding infrastructure for suburbs that I don't want. You will get 10 people living in a 30sq m apartment with no provisions for parking and all the social issues that they have that caused them to leave their own country will end up occurring and repeating here. We have the space build new cities don't just go up or out in existing ones.

Terrible! Existing ratepayers will have to foot the bill to make it profitable for developers!!!!

Do not build on arable land. Stay the f off food growing land.

So no size limits for apartments, just because "a tiny apartment will still be better than a car"? What is being proposed will allow developers to profit from building tower blocks of tiny cramped apartments with no balconies and make heaps of money through quantity over quality. These will become the ghetto housing of the future like those found in places like Hong Kong. Do we really need to lower our expectations of what housing should be in NZ to this extent? Shifting social housing to the private sector will likely lead to the equivalent of a Grenfell Tower disaster in London. Deregulation at this scale generally leads to the likes of the hugely costly leaky building debacle. National led Governments are great at deregulating but spend little on the checks and balances to ensure quality and safety standards are actually met. The original State Housing strategy was a far better model because building quality homes in the first instant meant that many are still very liveable 80 years later, an investment into future proofed housing will result in a capital asset that will retain its value for longer. Quick, cheap builds will end up more like prisons for the poor and end up as similar situations as the motels in Rotorua. Bill English's oversight of housing NZ saw it become the biggest slum landlord in the country (postponed maintenance to enable dividends). All we are seeing is increased commodification of housing and the expectation that low income families can live in a healthy, secure homes in well supported communities is again a distant dream. Welcome to developer paradise!

Won't make any difference there isn't the ifistructure to support this bright idea you need to have proper inferstructure first we are still pumping our sewage strait into the sea everywhere etc etc

IE: Devonport city council rejected Government's proposal to expand the main road. WTF???? When local people finally see the Government decided to do the right thing they have been expected for decades the local council killed it immediately. What a bummer! Who are these councilors working for?

Yes without the inferstructure ,it won't work ..Look at Wellington already Look at CH CH ,WHERE THE sewers are already collapsing with the added strain.Simple to work out that an old house on a big section with one old person living in it ,using the toilet each day ,then they build 6x 3 storey units on the land and depending whose living there ,30? people are using the toilets ,with the same sewer system in place .multiply this by thousands and it will eventually fail?

What a load of tripe, developers are the ones in control, they landbank and only release sections when they think they can get the highest price. There are a lot of commercial properties sitting vacant currently in most towns and cities in NZ.

I would like to see rateable values removed/change the system in which rates are calculated. Rateable values I feel are often used to determine properties values, but rateable values aren't a proper property evaluation.

And how many billions of dollars does his Lordship intend to allocate to the associated infrastructure needs?

I absolutely believe that if you took people at random from the street they'd outperform this government in every meaningful metric. We might as well be led by donkeys.

We own our house which is in a major urban area. These changes are going to reduce its value. However, they also mean chances are our 4 kids will each be able to afford house for themselves. Let's see it happen.

WE EXISTING RATEPAYERS will have to pay for making the infrastructure etc to be built so that developers will make a profit! YOUR rates will pay for all of this. In one of his first comments he says that the councils are responsible for making it PROFITABLE for DEVELOPETS!!!!. (That's not a typo) Also, all the extra workload this puts on councils will entirely fall on EXISTING RATEPAYERS!!!!