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Govt cancels Tauranga housing expansion
Mōrena. Long stories short, the six things that matter in Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate and poverty on Friday, December 12 in The Kākā’s Dawn Chorus above and the daily Pick ‘n’ Mix below are:
* The National-ACT-NZ First Government, which has a ‘Going for Housing Growth’ policy designed to massively increase housing supply to improve affordability, has just blocked a Kāinga Ora-led ‘Specified Development Project’ to develop 2,600 ha of greenfields land for up to 37,000 houses in the ‘Western Corridor’ area of Tauranga, saying the ‘costs and benefits outweigh the risks’…
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