A BBHTC Research Bulletin from Architecture of Decision-making researchers Dr Kay Saville-Smith and Craig Fredrickson, exploring another aspect of the factors influencing affordable housing and housing affordability -privately imposed covenants on residential land – has been added to the BBHTC website and is available for download now.

The National Science Challenges Colloquium, Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities: Ko Ngā Wā Kainga hei whakamāhorahora was held at AUT’s Auckland City Campus on the 9th and 10th of May.

The Improving the Architecture of Decision-making team presented research findings in poster format covering five topic areas. Click on poster titles in the list below to view posters on the BBHTC Challenge webpage.

• Decision-making in the New Zealand housing sector: Analysis of a complex governance network. 
•  Getting the housing we say we want: Learning from the Special Housing Area experience in Tauranga and the Western Bay of Plenty
• Housing affordability, urban change and the complex logics of Special Housing Areas
• Why problem framing is powerful in understanding housing supply and affordability in New Zealand.
•  Land costs are created not given and fuelled by buyer anxiety. 

Study casts doubt on the effectiveness of Special Housing Areas in Tauranga.

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Listen to research programme leader Dr Kay Saville-Smith discuss her recently released report on Accessory Dwelling Units and whether these ‘hidden homes’ could be part of the solution to NZ’s housing crisis.

Could hidden homes solve the housing crisis? Radio New Zealand National – Nine to Noon