No one person or institution is responsible alone for the recent rise in house prices. Housing is a huge and very complex problem, and any solution involves must involve the government, reserve bank, councils, private individuals, Iwi and investors.

The only way to really solve the housing crisis long term is to build more houses. It’s hard to do, but that is no excuse.

As Sam Stubbs points out, we have done it before, so let’s do it again.

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