Why Luxon needs to stay the course on housing intensification

Why Luxon needs to stay the course on housing intensification
Christopher Luxon says a policy on intensification will soon be announced by Chris Bishop (Image: NZME)
Dileepa Fonseka
Politics is full of cliches and each cycle brings a new one, but here’s one which rolls around reasonably reliably every year: don’t throw the baby out with the bath water. Yet on housing, National party leader Christopher Luxon seems intent on not just throwing out the baby but trying to refill the bathtub with stale water long since flushed down the drain. During the first stop on his “Get NZ Back on Track” tour Luxon told people at a meeting in the Auckland suburb of Birkenhead that he thinks “we&rsquo...

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