‘Being built in the wrong places’: Do we need to rethink housing intensification?
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A plan to replace a single house in Auckland's Hauraki with 11 new homes has drawn opposition from people who live nearby. Their complaint is blunt: the suburb's infrastructure cannot cope with that many extra households on one section. The dispute feeds into a wider question now being raised about housing intensification, namely whether density is being built in the wrong places. For now, the Hauraki proposal has become the latest test of the policy.
Plans to replace a single house in Auckland’s Hauraki with 11 new homes has drawn opposition from locals who say the infrastructure can’t cope.