Damien Grant: Housing market so tightly regulated we’ve created landed gentry

Did you know it costs 50% more to build a house here than it does in Australia? I didn’t, and was surprised to see Chris Luxon promising to do something about it last week.

I mean, I know his party campaigned on housing affordability, but many of his supporters own property and if he does something about high house prices not everyone is going to be pleased.