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A younger generation is looking to denser developments as a way to improve housing affordability.
Many baby boomers spent their youth campaigning against big bad property developers who wanted to build high-rise apartments. Now they re facing a rebellion from young people who prefer apartment developments and medium-density townhouses to the villas and suburban sprawl older generations fought so hard for. Not in my backyard-ers (Nimbys) on both sides of the political spectrum have a long history of opposing multi-storey developments in the main metropolitan centres of Auckland, Hamilton, Christchurch and Wellington – often on the grounds of heritage, environmental concerns, or a generic opposition to property development.