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Property investors and first home buyers who are fearing or hoping a surge of new housing supply should know it will be very hard for the Government to engineer. Bernard Hickey charts the heavy headwinds buffeting Kiwibuild.
Housing and Transport Minister Phil Twyford is arguably the most important and pressured man in the new Government.
He is responsible not just for creating the Kiwibuild programme to build 100,000 affordable houses in 10 years. He will also have to conjure up a massive transport investment programme that New Zealand’s governments (both central and local) are ill-equiped to finance.
Housing and Transport Minister Phil Twyford is arguably the most important and pressured man in the new Government.
He is responsible not just for creating the Kiwibuild programme to build 100,000 affordable houses in 10 years. He will also have to conjure up a massive transport investment programme that New Zealand’s governments (both central and local) are ill-equiped to finance.
