Somewhere to Live

Aotearoa New Zealand is in the midst of a housing affordability crisis, with the effects disproportionately felt by younger generations, single-parent households, Pacific Islanders, and Māori. Housing speculation, fuelled by the availability of cheap credit, has driven up prices and led to a speculative investment cycle that must be de-escalated to ameliorate our crisis.

In this research paper, Dr Jenny McArthur (University College London) proposes a package of solutions to disrupt the speculative cycle, safely lower housing prices, and boost alternative housing provision to meet diverse needs.

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Latest Media

• Newsroom: Housing policy as if young people mattered - and voted (February, 2020).
• NZ Herald: Govt should drive house prices down with new tax and borrowing limits: report (February, 2020).
• Stuff: Property investors to blame for NZ's high house prices, not lack of supply, researcher says (February, 2020).
• RNZ: New Helen Clark Foundation report urges Capital Gains Tax (February, 2020).
• RNZ Morning Report: Report calls for debt to income limits, CGT due to housing boom (February, 2020).
• Interest.co.nz: Terry Baucher sees tax cuts and capital gains back on the agenda, the IRD targeting the hospitality industry, and the OECD reckons international tax reform could collect US$100 bln annually (February, 2020).
• Newshub: Capital gains tax, debt-to-income limits key to making housing more affordable - Helen Clark Foundation (February, 2020).
• Stuff: Renters squeezed even as lower mortgage rates help homeowners (February, 2020).