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Two Auckland housing studies due out last month have been delayed.
The Centre for Housing Research, established by Housing NZ in 2003, still says on its website that the studies will be issued in March.
Motu Economic & Public Policy Research was last month due to deliver its study, Housing Supply in the Auckland Region 2000-2005. That study cost $132,250.
"This research will provide an analysis of primary and secondary data dealing with supply-related constraints that may have inhibited housing expansion in Auckland over 2000 to 2005, and examine the impacts of any constraints on the ability of developers and home builders to respond to growth in demand," the centre said on its website.
DTZ Research was also due to deliver The Future of Homeownership and the Role of the Private Rental Market in Auckland, which cost $120,000.
"The aim of this research is to improve the understanding of how the Auckland region's private rental market might adjust to cope with the projected fall in home ownership rates and to investigate the market, social, fiscal and policy implications of these trends particularly as low to medium income households become increasingly reliant on private rental accommodation," the centre said.
Terrence Aschoff, the centre's manager, said last week the reports would be issued soon.
He said the centre was completing the printing of the research and "confirming details of the public release with its co-funders".
In the year to last June, the centre managed nine housing research projects and spent $1,092,300. The previous year, it spent $699,000.
The centre's funders include the Department of Building and Housing, the Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs, the Department of Labour and the Auckland Regional Council.
