Cookie cutter housing is fast becoming the crop du jour on the Waimea Plains, once fiercely guarded as Tasman’s most productive soil, as demand outstrips long-term planning by decades. Tracy Neal reports. Keep Reading

OPINION: A recent amendment to the Resource Management Act is an incoherent re-distribution of urban space governed only by private property interests, promoted by greed on one side and political desperation on the other, says Unitec's housing research group. Keep Reading

More than 19,000 dwellings were greenlit across Tāmaki Makaurau this year, with the majority being dense forms of housing. Keep Reading

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Nelson homeowner Tim Bayley has set up a visual demonstration on his property of the potential effects of the Government's housing infill legislation. Keep Reading

A change to a key part of the housing intensification bill has been enough to alarm supporters, but too little to placate critics. Keep Reading

The select committee reported back at the last minute on a law that would allow apartment blocks throughout our biggest cities – but it's left any changes for back-room negotiations between Labour and National. Keep Reading

This post has been written as part of the UrbanShift project by Bhaskar Padigala, Karishma Asarpota, and Matteo Bizzotto. Among several critical themes discussed and negotiated by the world leaders… Keep Reading