{"id":30305,"date":"2021-03-29T15:02:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T06:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/29\/new-zealand-housing-crisis-jacinda-ardern-says-rent-increase-warnings-are-speculative"},"modified":"2021-03-29T15:02:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T06:02:00","slug":"new-zealand-housing-crisis-jacinda-ardern-says-rent-increase-warnings-are-speculative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30305","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand housing crisis: Jacinda Ardern says rent-increase warnings are &#8216;speculative&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Property investors have railed against last week\u2019s policy changes, which sought to dampen skyrocketing house prices<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s government is playind down the impact of its housing policy changes on rents, despite economists warning that they are likely to rise in response.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anz.co.nz\/content\/dam\/anzconz\/documents\/economics-and-market-research\/2021\/ANZ-HousingPolicyChanges-20210323.pdf\">In a report<\/a> responding to the housing policy changes announced last week, the ANZ Bank identified \u201cthe big negative externality [as] the possible impact on renters \u2013 the very people the government is trying to help into the housing market\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/29\/new-zealand-housing-crisis-jacinda-ardern-says-rent-increase-warnings-are-speculative\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Property investors have railed against last week\u2019s policy changes, which sought to dampen skyrocketing house pricesNew Zealand\u2019s government is playind down the impact of its housing policy changes on rents, despite economists warning that they are like&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1833,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1833"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30306,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30305\/revisions\/30306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}