{"id":38160,"date":"2021-10-19T12:23:48","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T03:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/19\/sweeping-housing-legislation-could-reshape-new-zealand-cities-for-decades-to-come"},"modified":"2021-10-19T12:23:48","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T03:23:48","slug":"sweeping-housing-legislation-could-reshape-new-zealand-cities-for-decades-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38160","title":{"rendered":"Sweeping housing legislation could reshape New Zealand cities for decades to come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Housing campaigners welcome changes, saying they will boost businesses, lower emissions and enable better transport links<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s cities could be reshaped for decades to come, after the government joined forces with the opposition to announce sweeping bipartisan housing legislation that aims to counter urban sprawl and boost supply by up to 105,000 new homes in the next eight years.<\/p>\n<p>In a rare display of cross-party collaboration, the housing minister Megan Woods and environment minister David Parker took the podium with the National Party\u2019s leader Judith Collins and its housing spokesperson Nicola Willis on Tuesday, to introduce a bill that will cut urban-planning red-tape and enable up to three houses, three storeys tall, to be built on most sites without requiring consent in the country\u2019s major cities.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/19\/sweeping-housing-legislation-could-reshape-new-zealand-cities-for-decades-to-come\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Housing campaigners welcome changes, saying they will boost businesses, lower emissions and enable better transport linksNew Zealand\u2019s cities could be reshaped for decades to come, after the government joined forces with the opposition to announce swee&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"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-38160","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\/38160","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\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38161,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38160\/revisions\/38161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}