Closer to home, The Spinoff recently anointed housing minister Chris Bishop the king of “abundance” politicians for his pro-growth reforms. Such infrastructure is often designed to provide extra capacity at peak times. But it also poses a wider challenge to the abundance agenda. In reality, we need more homes, hence the welcome upzoning of recent years, itself a prefiguration of the abundance agenda. And the abundance agenda is – it bears repeating – not entirely wrong.

Source: Stuff January 29, 2026 05:41 UTC