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Defining the role of the state: the response of the Christchurch City Council to the question of 'housing affordability'

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Defining the role of the state: the response of the Christchurch City Council to the question of 'housing affordability'

Jowett, Shona
Type: Dissertation
Permalink: https://hdl.handle.net/10182/6867
Originally published: 2015 by Lincoln University
Keywords: housing; housing affordability; Christchurch City Council; local government; housing affordability; house prices; real estate
Fields of Research: 150403 Real Estate and Valuation Services; 140299 Applied Economics not elsewhere classified

Abstract:

‘Housing affordability’ has been a term used to refer to a problem that arises when the costs of housing are seen as being unreasonably high in relation to incomes. In the United Kingdom and Australia the local town planning systems have been used to address housing affordability issues. This response in countries that share New Zealand’s town and country planning history raised the question for this research of the local government response to housing affordability issues in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand. This research was undertaken during the fifth year after the 2010/2011 Canterbury earthquake series. Research conducted by the Centre for Housing Research Aotearoa New Zealand and the New Zealand Productivity Commission present quite different pictures of the housing affordability problem, suggest different solutions and indicate different roles for levels of government, the community housing sector and the housing market. The research undertaken for this dissertation aimed to address the question of the role of the state, through the lense of a local response to housing affordability issues, in the context of a central government response focused on land supply and reforming the Resource Management Act 1991.

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