Housing Crisis and Architectural Solutions in Auckland City

Question: Discuss about the Housing Crisis and Architectural Solutions in Auckland City. Answer: Introduction: The main problem identified in Auckland City is the housing crisis due to insufficiency of houses for despite the growing population. The cost is too much besides poorly designed and poor quality existing housing stock. Despite New Zealands renowned for high-end architecturally designed houses, the architects involvement in designing affordable houses or homes has remained minimal (Ng 2011). The facts have shown a rising cost of Auckland house prices at a double-digit rates yearly relative to less than five percent growth rate of the rest of the country. The Auckland city has a severe inadequacy of housing along with the issues of pricing. Indeed, despite 8,000 new homes per year, the city will still have a shortage of sixty thousand homes by 2020 which even doubles the current shortage (Ng 2011). Architectural Solutions Architectures can fix the crisis by dedicating the design-led public or private partnership. This will be done by integrating housing, landscape, urban design as well as social infrastructure (Melbourne 2016). Also, a well-designed, affordable medium-density housing will help architectures mitigate the crisis in Auckland city (Melbourne 2016). The architecturally-designed medium-density housing will also be viable, affordable as well as architecturally appealing alternative in a rising space limited region. References Arbury, J., 2005. From Urban Sprawl to Compact CityAn analysis of urban growth management in Auckland. Unpublished Thesis, Auckland University, Auckland. Melbourne, A., 2016. A roof over ones head: housing crises in Auckland, London and New York. Architecture Now , pp. 1-4. : https://architecturenow.co.nz/articles/a-roof-over-ones-head-housing-crises-in-auckland-london-and-new-york/ Ng, T., 2011. New Urbanism in Auckland.