New Zealand Government to give itself power to override councils on housing in RMA changes

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  1. This needs to be the norm in the entire anglosphere. I’m glad to see them take this step.

    If left up to purely local control, no town will choose to build enough housing. Even if states do things like setting quotas for new units, local bodies will virtually always choose to put it in inconvenient locations and saddle it with requirements that reduce the quality of life. 

  2. RecentlyUnhinged on

    Exciting to see! I’m not super sharp on kiwi politics but I was under the impression they were pretty much giga-NIMBYs

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