A housing supply shock in exactly the wrong direction

The Kākā by Bernard Hickey · Jun 22, 2025 · 10m

Morena and glad to be back online after a couple of weeks of leave. Briefly in the news from Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, poverty and climate on Monday, June 23:

* Chris Bishop says he wants to unleash a housing supply shock and last week announced the Government would force councils to allow more houses if they kept saying no, adding to a swathe of repeals and reforms he has launched. But it his Government’s own ‘no’ to council requests for funds and ‘no’ to new Kāinga Ora homes that has actually shocked new house building into reverse. See more in The Lead below the paywall…