# Senior Research Scholar Alain Bertaud is quoted in an article on New Zealand's housing crisis

1 School News February 24, 2019 ![Guardian logo ](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030939.jpg?itok=g7FgVwid)>

Excerpt from [The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/25/sale-of-portable-cabins-booms-in-new-zealand-amid-housing-crisis) -- "Alain Bertaud, a former World Bank principal urban planner, said despite New Zealand being an otherwise 'exceptionally well-managed country', its housing market was in a state of crisis. He said the government’s efforts were being closely watched because they were broadly following global best practice in improving housing affordability."

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