Information release

Housing Affordability Information Release

Between October 2012 and February 2013 the Treasury released documents relating to housing affordability.

Information about the Productivity Commission's inquiry into housing affordability, and its recommendations to the Government, can be found on its website: www.productivity.govt.nz.

Relevant media statements from Ministers can be found on the Beehive website:

Information Withheld#

Key to sections of the Official Information Act 1982 under which information has been withheld.

Certain information in these documents may have been withheld under the following section of the Official Information Act:

  • 9(2)(f)(iv) - maintain the current constitutional conventions protecting the confidentiality of advice tendered by ministers and officials.

Where information has been withheld, a reference to the applicable section of the Official Information Act has been made, as listed above.

In preparing information for release, the Treasury considers the public interest considerations in section 9(1) of the Official Information Act.