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"We've proven it can be done": Final touches put on new affordable housing prototype

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Thu, 3 Apr 2025, 10:05am
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"We've proven it can be done": Final touches put on new affordable housing prototype

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九一星空无限talk ZB,
Publish Date
Thu, 3 Apr 2025, 10:05am

A new affordable housing solution has just been completed. 

The Living House, designed by RTA Studio, takes just six weeks to build, costing only $333 thousand.  

It costs $253,000 less than the Government鈥檚 average Kainga Ora build, and Architect Rich Naish told Mike Hosking they got frustrated by the failure of successive governments to build truly affordable housing.  

He says they鈥檝e designed it to be scalable, optimising it down to the cheapest and simplest build so it can be repeated by individuals or organisations. 

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