Housing minister Phil Twyford sees prefabricated homes as key to turning around the disappointing start for KiwiBuild. The country was getting closer to importing complete prefabricated houses, as well as seeing major local and overseas companies setting up giant house-building factories in New Zealand, Housing Minister Phil Twyford says. Speaking at the Co-Lab conference of prefabricated housing suppliers in Auckland, Twyford acknowledged KiwiBuild's slow progress, but defended the KiwiBuild plan. A short list of 44 local and overseas established prefabricated housing manufacturers, which could begin large-scale manufacture of prefab homes had been drawn up. He expected this would result in both importing prefabricated homes into the country, as well as the establishment of large-scale factories in the country.

Source: Stuff March 13, 2019 21:22 UTC