PHOTO: ABIGAIL DOUGHERTY Questions are being raised about how big the housing shortage really is following the release of the 2018 Census.
Census 2018 data is raising questions about how many houses are needed in New Zealand – and possibly less than expected.
Colliers International has published a report saying population growth in the five years from Census 2013 to Census 2018 was quite a bit lower than forecast in Statistics New Zealand’s June 2018 provisional population estimates.
Colliers said that might mean New Zealand needed 69,000 fewer homes than expected.
Between Census 2013 and Census 2018 the number of people living in New Zealand rose from 4.24 million people in 2013 to 4.7 million in 2018, an increase of 457,500 people.
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