Study Tour 2019: Community Wealth Building and City Deals
While supporting the establishment of a large regeneration project, we took our Government clients on a study tour to the UK and the US to showcase best practice regeneration and community wealth building.
We captured the key insights from this study tour, with a report divided into four sections. These are:
- An insight into the current unprecedented opportunity for our generation to respond to the existing crisis of housing and invest in better communities.
- Key lessons to learn from examples we visited in the United Kingdom and the United States on housing affordability displacement within large scale development and regeneration programmes and income equality.
- A roadmap for transforming housing and urban development in New Zealand through partnerships and cross-sector collaboration, new approaches to governance, strategy and leadership, and prioritising equitable and sustainable housing models.
- A summary of how the future of homes and communities in New Zealand are changing.
Overall, the report argues for a systemic change in how we think about housing and urban development. The study tour highlights the opportunities and challenges for how to approach this differently in New Zealand. With the 2020 ‘Rebuilding together’ Budget, and a new housing and urban development policy agenda, we have an opportune moment to develop a strategic and substantial response to our urban development and housing issues in New Zealand.
Read the full report here:
Get a snippet of the trip by watching the video:
