29527 (2025). Tangi Utikere to the Minister of Housing

29527 (2025). Tangi Utikere to the Minister of Housing: Has he conducted or commissioned any analysis on the impact of rising Development Contributions on housing affordability and supply for first-home buyers, if not, why not?

Hon Chris Bishop: The Ministry of Housing and Urban Development and Department of Internal Affairs have provided advice on the impact of charges on development on housing affordability and supply. Officials undertook high-level analysis of growing urban centres to consider how much capacity there is for increased infrastructure charges to be absorbed into land prices over the longer term. This analysis indicated that in most of these centres there is sufficient capacity to absorb higher infrastructure charges and not affect the profitability of buying the land.