Infometrics has been reporting on high-level housing affordability for many years in our Regional Economic Profile and Quarterly Economic Monitor. This month, Principal Economist and Lead Demographer Nick Brunsdon explores several new ways of exploring local housing affordability to inform decision making.
Housing affordability is an important issue affecting the wellbeing of households. Recently, we dove deeper on housing affordability for two Waikato Region clients. This article explores several new ways of exploring local housing affordability to inform decision making.
Infrastructure investment remains a hot topic across the country, with increasing demands for investment, but more limited amounts of funding available. High cost escalation for network infrastructure in recent years have contributed to a need to spend more than anticipated to get less than anticipated.
New Zealand’s energy markets have been in focus in recent months, after low gas production and low hydro lake levels combined to force prices higher. The recent threatening of an energy crisis seems to have been avoided – for now – with prices normalising somewhat.
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