Time to stop the finger-pointing on housing

Senior economist Mark Smith believes changes are "well overdue", and policy experts and politicians need to come together to fix the decades-long housing market problem. 

In ASB's latest economic weekly, Smith argues for an end to finger pointing, as the Labour Government, Green Party and National continue to trade blows over the nation's affordability crisis.

"The needs of the country need to come first, rather than using housing as a political football and an avenue for point scoring," Smith says.

It comes as the Government publicly called on the Reserve Bank to cool the housing market and add price inflation to its remit.