Media Coverage

Report: The Need to Build – The demographic drivers of housing demand

Melville, Brent. “Housing: From avoiding catastrophe to finding solutions”, Business Desk (23 February 2021).

Satherley, Dan. “Ageing population to become one of the biggest drivers of New Zealand’s housing crisis, report finds”, Newshub (23 February 2021).

Hardwich, Oliver. “Building for an ageing population”, Newsroom (24 February 2021).

Edwards, Brent. “Housing supply needs serious boost to meet changing demographic demands”, National Business Review (23 February 2021).

Nine-to-Noon. “Housing crisis tip of the iceberg – report”, Radio New Zealand (2 March 2021).

Morning Report. “Think tank predicts housing crisis to get worse”, Radio New Zealand (23 February 2021).

Early Edition with Kate Hawksby. “New Zealand Initiative warns worst of housing crisis is yet to come”, Newstalk ZB (23 February 2021).

Bell, Miriam. “Need to build more urgent than ever – report”, Stuff (23 February 2021).

Hickey, Bernard. “Join a 1pm ‘hoon’ on housing demand”, The Kākā by Bernard Hickey (24 February 2021).

Webinar with Bernard Hickey
Interview with ‘Walk The World’.
Interview on the AM Show

The New Zealand Initiative. “Podcast: Leonard Hong discusses demographic changes in NZ and what this means for our housing crisis” (23 February 2021).

Report: Walking the path to the next global financial crisis

Sachdeva, Sam. “John Key on the next GFC: ‘Ingredients for a very dark time”, Newsroom (7 November 2021).

新西兰中文先驱网. “前总理John Key说,房地产市场的繁荣已经结束”, Chinese Herald (4 November 2021).

Grant, Damien. “Losing faith in our central bank”, Stuff (7 November 2021).

Dann, Liam. “Liam Dann: Sir John Key says the housing boom is over. Is it really?”, The New Zealand Herald (7 November 2021).

Dann, Liam. “Housing market ‘boom run is over’, says John Key”, Newstalk ZB (4 November 2021).

Ruth, Jenny. “History tells us this is going to end badly”, Business Desk (4 November 2021).

Radio New Zealand. “Governments’ inflamed risk of financial crisis with pandemic decisions – report” (4 November 2021).

Carroll, Melanie. “Reserve Bank’s Orr holds ‘biggest wand’ ever amid housing boom, says John Key”, Stuff (4 November 2021).

The New Zealand Initiative. “Podcast: Bryce Wilkinson and Leonard Hong on walking the path to the next GFC” (12 November 2021).

Reddell, Michael. “Walking the path?”, Croaking Cassandra Blog (4 November 2021).

NZ Initiative webinar with former Prime Minister Rt Hon Sir John Key on the report.