Unlocking a housing impasse
Unlocking a housing impasse © Provided by Newsroom One of Auckland's big-four, urban fringe residential developments needs new thinking to solve the provision of its infrastructure. Eleanor Black reports Thirty-six kilometres south of Auckland’s CBD lies a golden opportunity. On the skirt fringe of the country’s largest population centre, where house prices have spiralled beyond reason and rising numbers of people go without homes, 5000 hectares of greenfields have been earmarked for future development. Here, at the base of the Bombay Hills, the natural southern border for Auckland, dev...