New Zealand's housing shortage is being made worse in our largest cities by the limits on the number and types of houses that can be built. They can be confusing and they can be arbitrary, causing expensive delays as people struggle to meet the expectation of individual council consent offices. We can't just keep doing what we have been doing and expect different results. We can't just keep doing what we have been doing for decades and expect that the housing crisis will solve itself. This bill makes one of the changes that we need in this country to get more houses built.