Lower Hutt's housing starts boomed relative to the counterfactual

Housing starts vs a synthetic counterfactual of similar cities (per 1,000 residents)

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The synthetic counterfactual is a weighted average of regions that looked like Lower Hutt prior to reforms.

Chart: Progress IrelandSource: Maltman and Greenaway-McGrevy (2025)Get the dataCreated with Datawrapper