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NIMBYs push to dump MDRS totally and stop greenfields' houses too
TL;DR: NIMBY groups are cock-a-hoop this morning, calling on councils and the Government to completely abandon the MDRS housing densification rules in the wake of National’s backflip on a bipartisan deal once seen as the hope of a generation.
The residents’ groups also called (in reports in The Press-$$$ and The NZ Herald this morning) for a halt to greenfields housing developments in our two biggest cities as well, saying there was plenty of land already zoned for housing. See more detail below.
News elsewhere from Aotearoa’s political economy on climate, housing and poverty:
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