Parties agree on need for healthy homes and emissions reduction

Parties agree on need for healthy homes and emissions reduction
The issue of housing intensification featured in a debate hosted by the NZ Green Building Council. (Image: Christchurch city council)
Oliver Lewis
There was an unsurprising degree of consensus about the need for more warm, dry housing at a political debate in Auckland on Tuesday.But the candidates at the debate, hosted by the New Zealand Green Building Council and moderated by senior BusinessDesk journalist Dileepa Fonseka, had very different views about how to do this.For Act’s Cameron Luxton, the answer was more localism, less cumbersome regulation, and a willingness to let the private sector get on with delivery.“I don’t think the government should be b...

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