2月26日：新西兰央行行长Graeme Wheeler今天表示，建筑物的高度限制和奥克兰NIMBY组织的态度阻碍了奥克兰房屋供应。面对议会财政和支出委员会，他重申央行对城市中房屋缺口将达到15000至20000套之间的估计。
每年建筑许可批复的数量增长至大约7500套。虽然是一个巨大的增长数字， 但还是远远低于去年奥克兰政府所作出的奥克兰未来三十年当中需要每年增长10000套房产的估计。
在开拓新区域方面已经取得了很多不错的成绩，但是主要的挑战是建房速度不够快，对奥克兰周边很多地区人们来说，考虑交通成本，这些新房吸引力并不大，而对于开发商来讲，基础设施建设的成本却非常高。”
我认为需要解决奥克兰市内高度限制的问题，外界的阻碍仍然非常大。”
生产力委员会应该解决有关区划的决定，监管改革以及审批程序问题。
当记者问到纽西兰政府在增加供给当中扮演的角色时，Wheeler说他可能不是回答该问题的恰当人选。
但是从纽西兰住房部所面临的问题以及很多社会住房问题看来，他们将很多住房投放到市场是有重要意义的.
“应该要考虑居民的身份以及他们的收入，低收入的人群是该投资的受益者
Wheeler说银行在2013年末所引入对贷款价值比限制，估计比之前预期的价格降低了约2%到3%。
Reserve Bank governor Graeme Wheeler has told Parliament's finance and expenditure select committee that work needs to be done to ease inner-Auckland's height restrictions
Nimby Auckland needs to address height restrictions - Wheeler
Building height restrictions and NIMBY attitudes in inner Auckland are standing in the way of an adequate supply-side response to Auckland's housing shortage, Reserve Bank governor Graeme Wheeler suggested today.
Appearing before Parliament's finance and expenditure select committee he reiterated the bank's estimate that the backlog of unsatisfied demand in the city is between 15,000 and 20,000 houses.
While dwelling permits issuance had risen to an annual rate of around 7500 -- "a huge improvement" -- that was still well short of the 10,000 a year over the next 30 years the Auckland Council had estimated the city needed, let alone eating into the backlog, he said.
"Some very good work has been done on opening up new areas but a major challenge there is getting the houses built quickly enough and a lot of those areas are in the periphery of Auckland where people may decide the transport costs make it less attractive for them or the infrastructure needs might be considerable," he said.
"I think work needs to be done in inner Auckland in addressing the height restrictions and the not-in-my-back-yard syndrome that's there."
He welcomed the work the Productivity Commission has been asked to do on issues related to zoning decisions, regulatory reform and approval processes.
When asked what he saw as the role of central government in increasing supply, Wheeler said he was probably not the right person to ask.
"But from what I can tell looking at the issues around Housing New Zealand and social housing it may well make a lot of sense to release some of those houses to the market.
"It may make a lot of sense to look at who the tenants are and what their income status is, so that people on low incomes are the beneficiaries of that sort of state investment."
Wheeler said the loan-to-value ratio restrictions the bank introduced in late 2013 had cooled the market, reducing prices by perhaps more than the forecast 2 to 3 per cent, compared with what they would otherwise have been.
来自：NZ Herald
