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Following the quakes, huge areas of farmland on the outskirts of Christchurch, and in neighbouring Selwyn and Waimak districts, was opened up to massive houses in greenfield subdivisions. This is not the solution to a housing crisis https://twitter.com/NicolaWillisMP/status/1336101068015452160
tens of thousands of people moved into houses that are more than 10km away from Christchurch, that are not connected by any form of public transport. We then had to spend more than a billion dollars building more motorways
it might have kept house prices down, relative to the national average. But we’ve built a city totally dependent on single-passenger vehicles. We’ve dug up our best fertile soils. We’ve built giant single-story houses. This isn’t the future. This is the 1950s.
absolutely cooked that the National Party keeps suggesting that the rest of the country take a look at Christchurch as a good example of how they can run urban development
Houses prices in Canterbury have stayed down because thousands of houses have been built in Selwyn and Waimak, which are not Christchurch. House prices in Christchurch itself continue to rise
