To the market and back: Housing policy and state housing in New Zealand |
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Authors: | Laurence Murphy |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Property, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand |
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Abstract: | Housing policy in New Zealand has traditionally been characterised by significant market intervention in support of home ownership
and a residual state housing rental sector. Within the context of dramatic social welfare reforms in the 1990s, a set of radical
housing reforms was introduced that profoundly transformed the role of the state in the housing system. Key elements of the
reforms included the creation of a profit-oriented company to manage state rentals, a move to market rents in the state sector
and the introduction of an accommodation supplement. This paper examines the underlying rationale and impacts of the reforms
focusing on issues of privatisation, tenant turnover, affordability and tenant protest. Having examined the ongoing problems
engendered by these reforms the paper reviews more recent political and legislative reforms that were sought to reassert the
state's traditional position within the New Zealand housing market.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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Keywords: | housing policy market reforms state housing |
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