Huge task ahead to build more housesPHOTO: REUTERS A prefabricated apartment is set up on a building's roof by a crane in Barcelona, Spain. But the housebuilding industry and its market have neither structure nor capacity to deliver on such policies. It took a decade to double the scale of the housing industry in Auckland. Individuals with funding to build tend to specify aspirational houses rather minimal, affordable standard houses. So we could make a strategically decisive move on ordering new state homes that the industry needs to deliver on.

Source: Stuff December 17, 2017 16:00 UTC