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2025
- The Conversation: As house prices drop will the retirement nest egg still be such a safe bet, 16 July 2025
- Newsroom: The young need state support just as much as the old, 6 June 2025
- Newsroom: Government should defuse New Zealand's social timebomb but won't, 21 May 2025
- Newsroom: NZ supers urgent reform needs to be granted, 11 March 2025
- Newstalk ZB: Susan St John introduces new proposal designed to change pension system, 9 March 2025
- Royal Society Te Apārangi: Will upzoning deliver housing affordability for everyone? Evidence from Auckland, 25 February 2025
- Newsroom: Don't let social service cuts lead us to our lowest point, 3 February 2025
2024
- Interest.co.nz: Susan St John says issue whether NZ super fund should pay tax largely one of smoke and mirrors, 18 November 2024
- RNZ News: Government failing NZ's most vulnerable says Economist, 11 October 2024
- Interest.co.nz: Susan St John outlines why she is advocating what she describes as fair economic return rather than a Capital Gains Tax, 2 October 2024
- RNZ News: Some may be worse off due to tax cuts expert, 31 July 2024
- RNZ News: Economist Susan St John on Budget 2024, 30 May 2024
- RNZ News: Stats show "an unprecedented depth of poverty" : Economist, 23 February 2024
2023
- Newsroom: Housing and the Nimby problem, 10 October, 2023
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation: New Zealand's housing density experiment saw approvals for new builds in Auckland 'skyrocket' while house prices kept climbing, 25 September, 2023
- The Economist: The growing global movement to restrain house prices, 6 September, 2023
- Strong Towns: New Zealand’s legalization of incremental housing is bearing fruit, 21 August, 2023
- Greater Auckland: Weekly roundup 18-August-2023, 18 August, 2023
- Business Insider: America, take note: New Zealand has figured out a simple way to bring down home prices, 7 August, 2023
- interest.co.nz: The Unitary Plan has protected Auckland families from significantly higher rents, according to Auckland University's Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy, 23 June, 2023.
- BusinessDesk: Forget big business and big government, 'big neighbour' is more powerful than both, 5 June, 2023
- Australian Financial Review: How Auckland took on the NIMBYs and won, 30 May, 2023
- The Spectator: Has New Zealand found the key to the UK’s housing crisis?, 27 May, 2023
- Vancouver Sun: The promise and pitfalls of upzoning and 'missing middle' housing policies, 27 May, 2023
- The New York Times: Imagine a renters' utopia, 26 May, 2023
- The Conversation: How housing made rich Australians 50% richer, leaving renters and the young behind - and how to fix it, 9 January, 2023
2022
- stuff.co.nz: Rapid transit won't unclog Auckland roads, congestion charge needed too - study, 30 September, 2022.
- University of Auckland News: Rapid transit and the case for a congestion charge, 28 September 2022.
2020
- University of Auckland News: Marsden Grant for study about Unitary Plan’s impact on housing affordability, 11 November, 2020.
Podcasts
- UCLA Housing Voice: Episode 45 What Happened When Auckland Upzoned Everywhere with Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy, 8 March, 2023.
- Of Interest Podcast: Auckland University's Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy on where Auckland's housing densification push is at, 7 October, 2022.