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Here you will find the latest news about KiwiBuild, the Government’s plan to solve the housing crisis.

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March 21st, 2018

Judith Collins challenges Housing Minister Phil Twyford over a lack of KiwiBuild homes so far

The Opposition has slammed Housing Minister Phil Twyford for being in the job for 145 days and not producing a single KiwiBuild home.

March 12th, 2018

Kiwibuild: the good, the vague and the ugly

Labour’s Kiwibuild policy was first announced in 2012, and is now a flagship housing policy of the new Labour-led government. The key points haven’t changed much since 2012, although the detail has been fleshed out a bit since then. Those key points are:

The government wants to build or facilitate 100,000 new homes over 10 years
At least half the new homes will be in Auckland
All Kiwibuild homes will be “affordable”
All Kiwibuild homes will be for first home buyers only Read More

March 8th, 2018

Government to work with Mayoral Housing Taskforce

The Government today committed to working with the Auckland Mayor’s Housing Taskforce aimed at ramping up the pace and scale of housing building in our largest city, Housing and Urban Development Minister Phil Twyford and Building and Construction Minister Jenny Salesa says.

KIWIBUILD – OTHERWISE KNOWN AS “PULLING NUMBERS OUT OF YOUR ARSE”

Since Labour came into power late last year, its KiwiBuild policy has been shrouded in confusion by contradictory statements from government departments and within the government itself about exactly what the policy means for the construction sector. Phil Twyford, the Minister for Housing and Urban Development, has been adamant that “the overwhelming effect of the KiwiBuild plan will be to deliver new houses over and above what the private market is delivering.” He has been quick to downplay the possible crowding out of private sector work. Furthermore, the government had indicated that part of the policy was to buy some properties “off the plan”, yet Mr Twyford had seemingly contradicted this statement continually reiterated that KiwiBuild would result in an additional 10,000 dwellings being built per year over and above what the market would otherwise have delivered. Read More

Economist warns KiwiBuild is set to disappoint

The Government’s KiwiBuild programme could add as few as 9200 extra properties to New Zealand’s housing stock over the next four years, an economist says.

7000 prefab homes could sprout a year for KiwiBuild quota, report finds

Prefabricated factory-built houses and apartments could deliver 7000 homes a year, KiwiBuild minister Phil Twyford has been told.

KiwiBuild needs you, Twyford tells prefab home builders

Housing Minister Phil Twyford told prefabricated home builders that KiwiBuild can’t be delivered without them.

“KiwiBuild using mass procurement gives us the opportunity to build at scale, with contract work at volume, and with the certainty of multi-year contracts, which will allow firms to invest in the technology, the production processes, and design, and business models, that will transform your industry.”

Gareth Kiernan argues KiwiBuild policy less of a game-changer

7th March, 2018

Kiwibuild could fail due to skills shortage in construction sector, says UK government adviser

The government’s flagship Kiwibuild programme is doomed to fail unless the construction sector can find a way of addressing the chronic skills shortage, says a leading adviser to the UK government.

March 4th, 2018

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