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Gary Blick

Jul 3, 2026

4:25
You've got sort of the, you call it tram car or street car suburb, pre-war neighborhoods are not upzoned, followed by more prevalence of upzoning medium in density, and then on the fringe is more of the non-upzoned again.
4:46
Yeah, so I think it's fair to say the upzoning was quite widespread spatially.
4:53
So most of the land was upzoned.
4:55
I think it's fair to say that at the time it was more than what a lot of people wanted and wasn't as much as what other people wanted so the political process plays out in a democratic context and so you get something that is I guess what society is prepared to live with at a point in time you can think of it that way This is really a visual sort of look at the amount of housing that is supplied.
5:27
It's building consents issued for new dwellings.
5:31
So it's a rolling 12-month measure.
5:34
Going back to the turn of the century, it has moved around a lot.
7:16
today and in the last couple of years, even despite the higher interest rates and the somewhat softer economy.

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