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Home Truths: What needs to happen now to cool housing prices and affordability

Liam Dann
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Business Editor at Large·NZ Herald·
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Home Truths: What needs to happen now to cool housing prices and affordability
Could this month's Budget offer more policy to drive affordable housing? Photo / Fiona Goodall Photography

After last month's big policy announcement, what's left for the Government to do on housing affordability?

Plenty, say economists who will be looking to this month's Budget for more action on the supply side of the market equation.

Essentially, there are two ways to affect prices.

You can limit demand

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