Taskforce must maintain momentum
Last week government ministers formally committed the Government to working with Auckland Mayor Phil Goff’s Housing Taskforce to tackle the city’s housing crisis.
This signals a reinvigoration of the Housing Taskforce, which has remained silent since the release of its report and recommendations last June.
Housing strategist Leonie Freeman has spent 19 months working on an independent initiative addressing the issue but last week’s news means she is now stepping back.
She says there is no point in having two groups working on the same issue and that all the work her group has done was about saying ‘Auckland has a major problem: how can we address it’.
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