Tauranga plans to open up new sites of land and increase housing density to address its impending housing crisis. Survey results released yesterday show the city has usurped Auckland as New Zealand's least affordable city for housing. Tauranga mayor Greg Brownless tells Guyon Espiner he expects the government's infrastructure fund and house-building plans will help, but he says "the horse has bolted a bit on foreign buyers".
23 Jan 2018