PHOTO: LAWRENCE SMITH/STUFF – Housing minister Phil Twyford said the development would help ease Auckland’s housing crisis.
A government announcement that it plans to build up to 4000 houses on just under 30 hectares of Unitec land in Auckland’s Mt Albert has done little to comfort sceptics of its KiwiBuild programme.
It was revealed yesterday that 30 per cent to 40 per cent of the homes it planned to build on the land bought from the education provider would be “affordable” – costing $500,000 to $600,000. That would include townhouses, apartments and flats.
It is the first announcement of the KiwiBuild programme, through which the government hopes to build 100,000 new houses over 10 years, half of which will be in Auckland.
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