A new report reveals the Bay of Plenty has become the most expensive region in New Zealand to rent, driven by a housing supply shortage, population shifts, and global economic pressures, raising alarm over affordability and access across Aotearoa.
How the framings classify across 10 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.
Stacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.
How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.
How the news corpus has covered this same topic over the last 12 weeks. 10 articles from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.
Verbatim segments from politicians speaking on podcasts and radio shows about this topic. Sourced via the voice-reference library — each speaker has been confirmed manually from their voice clip. Click play to stream the original audio from the publisher, pre-seeked to the moment the quote starts.
Yeah. I was interested in your comments in front of that lick committee, was it last week or the week before, whenever it was about the you know, the stuff on the paper for housing developments and things like that. Uh, how real's that? And and the reason I raise that with you is if you're not going to buy off a bit of paper on the plan, then maybe the plan doesn't get done in the first place, and therefore in a couple of years' time we're going to be going, we don't have enough houses again.
Up to 12 framings spread across orientations. Each framing is a short phrase the topic extractor generated to characterise the piece's stance — not a quote from the source. Click through to read the original.
persistent in high-demand regions despite market shifts
Why New Zealand renters may be about to have it better than Australiansstructural problem beyond tax policy
Albanese government uses its political dominance to implement a ‘Labor’ agendaSocial-media signal on the same topic, drawn from the social lens. Engagement is likes + 2×shares + 3×replies, the same weighting used across the digest cards. View on /social →
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