AN INTEGRATED POLICY FRAMEWORK
Fixing New Zealand's
housing system as one system.
New Zealand does not lack housing policy. It lacks the integrating discipline that makes monetary, macroprudential, fiscal, infrastructure, rental, and access settings work as one system.
The Summary explains the complete thesis. The eight papers provide the full evidence base.
Integrated Thesis Summary
START HERE
One document.
The complete argument.
New Zealand's housing challenge is structural, not isolated. Fragmented settings across credit, supply, infrastructure, rental policy, councils, construction productivity, and ownership access combine to produce poor outcomes — the Compass makes them accountable to each other.
Q.04
Does it survive
consequences testing?
The four-question framework. Every reform in the series is tested against all four.
Q.02
Does it protect rental provision?
The four-question framework. Every reform in the series is tested against all four.
Q.03
Does it produce deliverable supply?
The four-question framework. Every reform in the series is tested against all four.
Q.01
Does the reform
improve real access?
The four-question framework. Every reform in the series is tested against all four.
THE EIGHT PAPERS
Library of evidence.
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