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Monday's Early Bird: Land & infrastructure costs at the margins behind our ruinously expensive housing
Here’s my curation of the day’s top news, analysis, commentary, charts and cartoons from around Aotearoa and elsewhere about our political economy on housing, climate and poverty. This is only published in full for paying subscribers.
Firstly and briefly, here’s my summary and analysis of this morning’s top news:
* An analysis by the NZ Herald-$ of land sales data for a now-delayed highway in South Auckland shows over $131 million of the project’s budget was spent buying land to enable greenfields development at the fringes. See Chart of the Day below
* Housing & Infrastructure Minister Chris…
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