Affordable housing

In reply to Mr Pascoe’s letter (September 10). Re infrastructure and availability of residential sections. Mr Pascoe may be an accountant but he is certainly does not understand basic economics. Economics 101 states ‘‘if the demand exceeds supply the price will rise’’ . What Mr Pascoe failed to explain is that it takes at least 18 months for sections to be ready to be built on once council have provided the core infrastructure. In the mid-1970s the Housing Corporation purchased a large property in Peacockes for affordable housing. At around the same time the Ministry of Works and other local authorities provided a blueprint for Hamilton to expand. The sewage plant at Pukete was designed for 300,000 persons. This report stated that the preferred housing areas should be