Inside National's housing backflip + twists & rolls

The Kākā by Bernard Hickey · May 29, 2023 · 50m

TL;DR: Chris Bishop has detailed National’s new housing policy for Election 2023 that confirms a National Government would not force councils to allow the building of three three-storey townhouses on a regular section without a resource consent — known as MDRS.

Rushed into the announcement after his leader Christopher Luxon let slip in a public meeting last week that the formerly bipartisan ‘Town House Nation’ policy was “wrong,” Bishop said councils could opt out of the MDRS policy, but would have to show they had zoned enough land for 30 years worth of housing demand, both via greenfields…