Avo on Toast: Making Sense of NZ's Housing Crisis. Part 3/3: What can be done?

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2022Mar 3

#housepricenz #housingcrisisnz #housingcrisis #houseprice #housing #affordability This documentary explores NZ's housing affordability crisis. How we got here and what can be done. This part looks at some social issues cause from the affordability crisis, and discusses potential solutions. About the interviewees: Arthur Grimes is Senior Fellow at Motu Economic and Public Policy Research and Professor of Wellbeing and Public Policy at Victoria University of Wellington’s School of Government. He is a former Chairman and Chief Economist of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. In 2018, US National Public Radio’s Planet Money described him as “one of the most important economists in the world” for his pioneering work on inflation targeting. His research focuses primarily on urban economics and the economics of wellbeing. Eric Crampton is Chief Economist with the New Zealand Initiative, Adjunct Senior Fellow with the University of Canterbury, and a regular commentator on housing, land use planning, and local government issues. He most recently contributed a chapter on housing policy to Mazey, S and J Richardson, eds, “Policy-making under pressure: rethinking the policy process in Aotearoa New Zealand”, Canterbury University Press, November 2021. Prior to 2014, he served as Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Canterbury. Andrew Coleman is an economist who specialises in New Zealand tax, housing and retirement income issues. For the last decade he has held research positions in different government departments including the Treasury and the Productivity Commission while simultaneously being employed as a lecturer at the University of Otago, where he taught public economics and economic growth theory. He currently has a contract position as a research economist at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand and an associate professor in economics at the Asian University for Women in Bangladesh. The views he expressed are his own and do not represent those of his employers.