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SUMMARY:The Politics of Land Supply and Affordable Housing: Auckland’s H
 ousing Accord and Special Housing Areas - Professor Laurence Murphy
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CONTACT:Clare Eaves
DESCRIPTION:Since the global financial crisis (GFC)\, governments and fina
 ncial authorities have adopted a more cautious\, and definitely less sangu
 ine\, approach to housing market booms. Land release and housing supply me
 asures have become favoured policy responses to the pressing political pro
 blem of housing affordability. Within governance regimes that advocate evi
 dence based policy practice\, the shift to a ‘supply response’ to hous
 ing affordability is constructed as a technical and apolitical project. Ho
 wever\, increasingly planning for housing development involves conflict be
 tween local government planning practices and central government housing p
 olicies. This paper examines a key historical moment in the politics of ho
 using supply and planning in New Zealand. Drawing upon an analysis of hous
 ing policy documents and urban plans\, this paper traces the dynamic of lo
 cal and central government negotiations (and conflict) arising from the de
 velopment of Auckland’s spatial plan\, the development of the Auckland H
 ousing Accord (a central and local government agreement to fast-track plan
 ning permission for new housing) and the implementation of the Housing Acc
 ords and Special Housing Areas Act. It is argued that the legislation supp
 orting housing accords alters central/local government power relations and
  represents a significant challenge to the current planning regime. At a b
 roader level the study highlights the ‘hidden’ politics that inform ho
 using policy development in an era of evidence based policy practice. \n\n
 Laurence Murphy is Professor of Property at The University of Auckland Bus
 iness School and was Head of the Department of Property from 2003-2009. An
  economic geographer by training\, he has published widely on property top
 ics including\; home ownership\, social rental housing\, mortgage securiti
 sation\, office development\, and entrepreneurial urban governance. \nHe i
 s currently part of a multi-disciplinary research team\, funded by the New
  Zealand Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment\, working on a pro
 ject entitled: “Finding the Best Fit: Housing\, Downsizing and Older Peo
 ple in a Changing Society”.\nProfessor Murphy completed his PhD at the U
 niversity of Dublin (Trinity College) and has held lecturing positions at 
 the Queen's University Belfast and the London School of Economics. He is c
 urrently the Helen Cam Visiting Fellow at Girton College\, Cambridge. \n
LOCATION:Mill Lane Lecture Room 4
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