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Auckland’s built environment is important to the city’s liveability and functionality. The design and quality of the houses, units and apartments we live in, the buildings in which we work and play, and the spaces in between, are important to our quality of life.

Featured reports

National Policy Statement on Urban Development Capacity 2016

Housing and business development capacity assessment for Auckland (2017)

The relationship between pedestrian connectivity and economic productivity in Auckland’s city centre. Second edition. Network scenarios analysis

Related website: The Auckland Design Manual, www.aucklanddesignmanual.co.nz

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Price effects of a voluntary affordable housing program

Housing prices in Auckland, New Zealand, have persistently increased in the last decade, to fast-track development of housing, Special Housing Areas (SHA) were created in September 2013 and were supposedly a measure to mitigate Auckland’s housing crisis and improve affordability. SHA resemble Inclusionary Zones initiatives implemented in the United States and Europe as most development projects had to provide at least 10 per cent affordable housing or at least target specified population groups. However, it is not clear the extent of the success (or failure) of SHA as they were disestablished by May 2017 and there is no empirical research on the subject.