Judith Collins says more tradespeople should be let into New Zealand to help build more houses and ease supply and demand troubles. New Zealand’s housing shortage could become much worse quickly if swift action isn’t taken to improve the rate of building, a new report says. The NZ Initiative’s report, The Need to Build, says demographic modelling shows that New Zealand’s population will get older and larger by 2038 - and that will affect housing supply more than currently thought. Bejon Haswell/Stuff Even with zero net migration, New Zealand needs 20,000 dwellings built each year for the next 20 years. “We need to make it a liveable place for New Zealanders, and this starts by building more houses now.

Source: Stuff February 22, 2021 16:01 UTC