A short-term rental can look like a private decision: an owner lists a spare unit, a visitor books a weekend, a city gains a bed without building a hotel.
Tag: Housing
Christchurch’s newbuild surge is a recovery story, but not the whole one
Christchurch has lived with the language of recovery for so long that it can be hard to know when a visible change is genuinely new. A crane on the skyline
New Zealand’s mega-ministry will only work if it changes incentives, not letterheads
New Zealand’s new mega-ministry sounds like a bureaucratic reshuffle. It should be judged as something more demanding: a test of whether the state can stop
Emergency housing numbers can fall while homelessness becomes harder to see
Public policy can fail quietly when the wrong number starts looking like success. That is the risk in New Zealand’s emergency housing debate: the headline
Stuffy Nights: What New Zealand’s Bedroom CO2 Problem Really Says About Housing
A New Zealand bedroom can look perfectly ordinary and still be doing a poor job of protecting sleep. A study reported by 1News and published in the New Zea
New Zealand cannot fix housing by treating density as a culture war
Opinion: New Zealand’s density debate has become too emotional and too dishonest. One side talks as if every townhouse is an attack on neighbourhood life.
Auckland’s density retreat is not just a planning story. It is a housing supply warning
Auckland’s debate over housing intensification can sound technical: planning maps, height limits, qualifying matters, infrastructure constraints. But benea
Queenstown’s housing crisis shows tourism cannot thrive by hollowing out its workers
Queenstown’s housing crisis should not be treated as a local inconvenience. It is a warning about the model New Zealand uses to sell beauty to the world wh