Some of the most beautiful places in the world are filled with the kind of “radical” three-storey housing this bill enables. pic.twitter.com/dTJYRO4fzd — Coalition For More Homes (@morehomesnz) November 11, 2021Opponents of the government’s housing bill have made loud calls for a continuation of this persnickety approach. While many of the councils submitting on the housing bill complained about the potential it will cause sprawl, their own planning rules essentially make that sprawl inevitable. “Blinds will be drawn, they’ll be miserable places to live,” he said, of the housing the bill enables. But their concerns are a kind of Trojan horse.

Source: New Zealand Herald November 24, 2021 11:56 UTC