Aucklanders who don’t want state housing near their own properties should leave the city, Housing Minister Phil Twyford says.
“If you don’t want to have affordable housing or quality density housing in your neighbourhood, you go and live in Pokeno or Dairy Flat,” he said at a West Auckland Business Club breakfast, according to NZME.
“This whole issue about nimbyism (not in my backyard)… it’s going to come up more and more, because we are going to build a lot of houses.”
The ‘nimbys’ in question refer to the backlash against state housing being built in Epsom, with Housing New Zealand (HNZ) proposing building a 25-unit complex in the wealthy central Auckland suburb.
It led ACT Party leader David Seymour to send a letter to…
