Joe JeffriesJoe Jeffries

Joe Jeffries is an urban planner and writer on cities, transport and housing. Formerly Auckland based he has recently moved to Wellington to escape Auckland’s housing shortage.

Build, build, build: Why housing supply matters

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Yes, Auckland does need more houses. Urban planner Joe Jeffries explains why. A recent article in The Spinoff made the extraordinary claim that increasing housing supply cannot improve affordability and seemed to suggest it could make things worse. That article relied on a strawman version of Economics 101 supply and demand, claiming that model doesn’t … Read more